Mark Steven Johnson, who would go on to a different underwhelming Marvel adaptation with “Ghostrider,” determined to base a lot of his movie on Frank Miller’s run on the “Daredevil” comics. That primarily concerned utilizing the author’s go-to lineup of Elektra, Kingpin, and Daredevil as the primary characters. Sadly, that meant Jennifer Garner’s Elektra would endure a violent loss of life by the hands of Colin Farell’s Bullseye, who slices her throat with a enjoying card earlier than stabbing her along with her personal sai, in a shot lifted straight from Miller’s “Final Hand” comedian ebook storyline.

In line with Johnson, the scene was initially loads gorier than the model within the theatrical reduce. Chatting with Yahoo on the movie’s twentieth anniversary, the director mentioned, “That is a scene I am significantly happy with […] [Fox] have been like, ‘It is fairly grotesque!’ I do keep in mind getting some blowback on that, as a result of her loss of life was fairly graphic.”

Whereas the scene was trimmed for the theatrical reduce, the edits have been put again in for the house video launch of “Daredevil,” which constituted a director’s reduce of the movie that added greater than half an hour of additional footage. Producer Gary Foster revealed in a making-of featurette that, “there was a reduce of this movie at an affordable size that included the director’s reduce materials and it was one thing that we severely thought of as a theatrical reduce of the movie.” Finally although, quickening the tempo and capturing for a PG-13 ranking over an R ranking took priority, however Johnson at all times most popular his reduce. As he advised Yahoo, “It is undoubtedly a extra full model […] if you’re advised to chop a half-hour out and make it extra of a love story, issues begin to really feel rushed and never fairly proper.”