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" Daredevil is returning in 2015, and if he doesn&amp;#039;t suck, it&amp;#039;s good news for Marvel. The Man Without Fear, as he&amp;#039;s sometimes called, is officially appearing on the small screen \u2014 whichever one you watch Netflix on. This is bigger news than it sounds like, because it&amp;#039;s a big risk for Marvel at over-saturation. They stand to finally hit the point where people are sick of superheroes and origin stories. Then all this money Disney has sunk into its juggernaut property might dry up.  But it&amp;#039;s also a worthwhile risk, if they can make people believe in Daredevil again. See, while DC is pumping out Batman, Green Arrow, Flash, and other characters in faux-gritty glam versions on networks like the CW, Marvel is actually trying to resuscitate a dead brand. Well, if you call &amp;quot;putting it in the hands of Netflix&amp;quot; trying. In the short history of Netflix&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;original&amp;quot; content, they&amp;#039;ve brought back Arrested Development, rebooted House of Cards as an American drama (okay, that one&amp;#039;s amazing), given Adam Sandler free reign to make more films, and now taken on a failed Marvel property (and the reason everyone hates Ben Affleck) as an open-ended TV series. It looks bad, in part because Netflix is a rollercoaster of success. While some of their series have achieved legendary status in just a couple of seasons, others, well, disappoint. But let&amp;#039;s assume Marvel is coaching things along nicely, since there&amp;#039;s a lot at stake right now, like the future of the Marvel universe. You&amp;#039;ve got a bunch of first-generation stars aging out of their roles and their contracts, and as Sony has proved with Spider-Man, you can&amp;#039;t just keep restarting every few years with a new actor and make money. So new characters have to be made to work, and captivate. Daredevil is a great opportunity for Marvel to flex muscle and quiet the doubters, because when we last left Daredevil in 2003, he was... just awful: Affleck&amp;#039;s canned dialogue, horrible parody-level wirework for fight scenes, a soundtrack that included Nickelback, and a costume that was (appropriately) only something a blind man would wear.  If Marvel takes this property and makes something good out of it, there&amp;#039;s a blank check for the next wave of new guys, including three other Netflix originals that will eventually combine into The Defenders, which has already been green-lit. And we&amp;#039;re hoping that the licenses are done in a collegial way with Netflix, so that, while these characters may call Netflix home, cameos and appearances on other shows, in other movies, and, yes, team-ups are all possible. Because a short stint with the Avengers would be a big deal for Daredevil, and a good way to cycle in new faces. If this seems like just too many superheroes, well, it might be. But think of this whole experiment not as market saturation (I mean, it is, but that&amp;#039;s not necessarily bad) but as ongoing water-testing. Every time Marvel gets a thumbs-up from audiences, they&amp;#039;ll be more likely to pay bigger bucks to the stars we want to come back for just one more movie. Which means that in addition to new stories, we get more Robert Downey Jr., more Chris Pratt, and more excellent Captain America sequels. And that&amp;#039;s all we really want, anyway. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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