I was actually really excited when 30 Days of Night director David Slade was attached to direct Daredevil for Fox. Unfortunately, he never got the chance to share his vision with us, but it sounds like it would have been awesome! In a recent interview with Film School Rejects, the director talked about his plan for the film explaining that it's the Daredevil movie the fans would want to see,
[I saw it as] really complex and exciting. It was complicated [Laughs], and in the most unimaginable Fox way possible. I was really, really excited about it . . . It’s funny, I remember Joe Carnahan went after it hard when the rights were about to go. He cut together that thing that was great and exciting, but it was kind of sad, in a way, because everything in that trailer we had attempted to do [Laughs]. Every single thing.
It’s in the 70s, Kingpin is going through New York dealing with the Irish mafia, and there’s Daredevil in the yellow suit. It was all there! You know, it’s a big studio film and it’s tougher…there are certain people who are really good at that, and I hope to be really good at that. I will continue to try my best.
That would have been so cool to see. I'd love to see this Daredevil movie get made one day. The property is back over at Marvel, so hopefully one day Marvel works up the guts to make this hard-ass, gritty Daredevil movie.