Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2058272-20160829234959/@comment-25179360-20160925213646

I'm going to give my pitch for Daredevil:

You guys can give any feedback, ideas, or suggestions for it.

Since the community didn't seem too crazy about Gary's pitch (no offense to him) involving the Kingpin, for Daredevil I was thinking about the movie being centered around a war between The Hand and the Chaste.

It would of course go over the basic origin story. Matt Murdock grows up in Hell's Kitchen as per usual, and due to his father's influence always studied and read books, and other kids taunted him for it calling him Daredevil ironically. One day they dared him to behave like a true Daredevil and skateboard across a busy street during a green light. Getting tired of his reputation as a coward, he agrees to do it... and and gets acid splashed in his eyes blinding him, but strengthening his other senses to superhuman levels. Eventually, he ends up in an orphanage where a mysterious man named "stick" trains him to use his enhanced senses to make up for his blindness, and advanced martial arts, telling him that he's training for a "war to come" but for unspecified reasons leaves Matt's life completely before anything comes of that. Causing Matt to abandon his training and continue studying in school.

It timeskips to Matt as an adult, where despite his blindness and harsh past he still manages to lead a normal life as a lawyer for a somewhat successful Law-Firm, alongside his best friend Foggy Nelson. Until one day he is approached by Stick again, accompanied by a mysterious warrior named Elektra Natchios. He reveals that the war he was talking about years ago is about to start and he needs Matt to fight alongside him, Elektra and the Chaste to stop them.

The "war" is then explained to be a battle against an ancient Japanese Cult called The Hand, lead by a Lord Deathstrike. Who worships an ancient Powerful deity from another dimension they wish to bring into our world (The deity could be Dormammu or Mephisto, which could tie into any Ghost Rider or Doctor Strange stuff), and the Chaste is trying to stop them.

Matt reluctantly agrees to help the Chaste, and begins to lead a double life as a Lawyer by day and warrior by night. Eventually getting closer to Elektra and Stick, and helping them stop The Hand's sinister plans. After which, he decides to use his powers to help the people of Hell's Kitchen recover from "the war" and creates a new iconic red suit taking on the identity of Daredevil.

I think this is a good way to introduce Daredevil into the CMCU, it's a new interpretation of the origin story, and it add a lot of interesting characters and factions into the universe (Elektra, The Hand, etc), and it would be different from the Netflix TV show and 2003 Movie (Kingping will not appear in the movie, the most he will get is maybe a namedrop). It could also be a subtle way to open the door for much more darker/supernatural heroes in the future

It would also contain references to Wolverine and Spider-Man (possibly having a cameo from either hero, if you guys are okay with that).

So, what do you think?