The first season of Netflix’s Daredevil
series was so good that it almost made me forget about the 2003 abomination
(almost, that’s a wound that lingers). It was dark and gritty and got the
characters right without just rehashing the comics; the action was, at times,
as good as anything we’ve seen in years (that fight at the end of episode 2 is
mind-blowing); and it delivered damn near everything I wanted as a lifelong fan
of the Man Without Fear. Now it looks like Marvel is adding an important new
character for season 2, Elektra.
According to Comic Book, two audition videos for
Daredevil were posted on Vimeo. Though they were shortly
deleted they reportedly featured women with “exotic features,” both reading for
the part of Elektra Natchios. They performed two scenes, one where Elektra
scares the crap out of a thug, and one where she flirts with Matt back in
college, a moment hinted at when Foggy makes a crack about Matt and a beautiful
Greek girl in season 1.
Fans of the comics know that Elektra, created by Frank
Miller in the early ‘80s, is an assassin with close ties to the Hand, dresses
in a skimpy red outfit, and uses two sais as her weapon of choice. She’s also
one of the great loves of Matt Murdock/Daredevil’s life, which leads to some
push and pull between her career and her feelings for him.
We’ll wait and see how this turns out, but she’s an
important character to Daredevil, and it would be awesome to
see her onscreen. And no matter who gets the part, she can’t be worse than
Jennifer Garner.
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