“We Didn’t Have Time to Make Spider-Man”: Director of One of Marvel’s Biggest Failures Explains the Disaster at the Movie Theaters

“We Didn’t Have Time to Make Spider-Man”: Director of One of Marvel’s Biggest Failures Explains the Disaster at the Movie Theaters


The film has gone down in Marvel history as an unpopular failure.

When studio heads balked at giving the green light comic book films with female protagoniststwo failures were constantly used as justification: Catwomanfrom DC, and Electrafrom Marvel. The long with Jennifer Garner It didn’t even raise $60 million, being criticized by fans and the press.

Electra: After death comes killing

The killer Electra (Garner) died during an operation, but was miraculously brought back to this world by Sensei’s Staff (Terence Stamp). He trains her at his gym, but ends up expelling Elektra because of her coldness. Soon after, that same cold heart is put to the test: she is assigned the task of killing Mark Miller (Goran Visnjic) and his 13-year-old daughter (Kirsten Prout) – even though she recently became friends with them.




Plans for a solo Elektra film emerged in the 1980s. In the early 1990s, according to Variety, Oliver Stone (Natural born killers) was briefly in talks to take over the project. Ultimately, the film only took shape in the 2000s.

Elektra was one of the few aspects of Daredevil From Ben Affleck received positively by critics and fans. Fox then ordered a spin-off of the character played by Garner, even though she herself did not believe in the project.

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