Matt Damon as a super hero? Yes, count me in. Matt Damon as Daredevil? Yes, take my money. Of course the one caveat is that Christopher Nolan would have to be the director. Matt Damon was making the rounds promoting his new movie “The Martian” when asked about his buddy Ben Affleck being Batman. This of course led to the story of the movie “Daredevil” and how Damon chickened out.
Via New York Daily News,
“For us it was always ‘Daredevil’ — that’s the comic we read when we were kids,” says Damon. “But when that one came along (in 2003) I chickened out, because I couldn’t tell. I hadn’t seen the director (Mark Steven Johnson’s) work and I didn’t know. So I just said, ‘No.’ Ben was like, ‘I gotta do it. If Chris Nolan came up to me and said, ‘I want to do Daredevil,’ I would be in.” -Matt Damon
Christopher Nolan is currently running this whole DC Universe thing to jump to Marvel to make a Daredevil movie, but that would be a pretty gritty film and would be Nolan’s style. Still, there already is a Daredevil and he’s Charlie Cox on the Netflix Daredevil show. It would have been cool to have seen Matt Damon as Matt Murdock as Daredevil once upon a time, but glad he turned it down. Everything worked out for everyone.