User blog:ARTaylor/15 Years of Daredevil

Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the premiere of Daredevil. Based on the Marvel Comic superhero, the film follows blind lawyer Matt Murdock as he protects the Hells Kitchen area of New York from the manipulative Kingpin. The film was a financial success, becoming the second biggest February release at the time. However, it was derided by fans and critics alike. Though an extended director's cut was better received. It spawned a spin-off focusing on Elektra, which fared even worse with critics and was a box office bomb. It's not all bad, though, as Jon Favreau, who played Foggy Nelson, began talking to Marvel on set about making a movie that became Iron Man leading to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The film features the talents of Michael Clarke Duncan as primary villain Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin, a role he reprised on Spider-Man: The New Animated Series. It also features an early cameo appearance by Stan Lee as a man on a street that a young Matt saves from getting hit by a bus. Rob Zombie also produced the song "The Man Without Fear" for the film.