Kevin Smith wants to direct Daredevil
Kevin Smith is keen on directing a future episode of Marvel’s and Netflix’s Daredevil.
Smith recently helmed an episode of DC’s The Flash and has told IGN that he’d now love to try his hand at Daredevil:
“I feel very at home in that Flash world, so much so that I’d love to do the others. I even told [Marvel chief creative officer] Joe Quesada – we worked on Daredevil together back in the day, I wrote it, he drew it – I said, ‘Dude, I want to direct Daredevil, man. That’d be wild to be able to do it in real-life – let’s co-direct it, that’d be cool, just like we did the book. We could co-direct an episode and then, like, take the passion from the page to the screen.’
“I’m going to try and make that Daredevil thing happen. Every time I talk to Quesada or [Executive Vice President of Marvel Television] Jeph Loeb, I’m like, ‘Hey! When are you going back down to the cameras?'”
Could Smith be set to direct Daredevil?
Smith is also open to other Marvel projects too as he calls the idea of directing its upcoming Defenders crossover mini-series, “phenomenal”:
“You know, they’re gearing up now for The Defenders,” he said. “If I can get a piece of that Defenders mini-series holy s**t, could you imagine, dude? Because then you’re working with multiple suits at once, that’d be phenomenal. “Just doing a mini Avengers – even one episode of that run of Defenders is like, ‘oh, I get to exercise any interest I had in Avengers but doing it on a scale where nobody’s betting $200 million on the guy that made f**kin’ Yoga Hosers.'”
Smith is first returning to direct another episode of The Flash in August but may very well be at the helm for Marvel’s Daredevil in the near future.