DREW GODDARD leaving ‘DAREDEVIL’ TV Show.

LOOK AT THE IMAGE. THINGS ARE SERIOUS. MARVEL IS IN TROUBLE!!!!~!!! Naw, I’m fucking around. Not fretting that much. And yet. Well, when it rains, it pours. And it’s currently pouring ill-fated piss all over Marvel’s face this weekend. Drew Goddard has thrown the deuces up and left the company’s Daredevil TV show. This seems more a case of the dude having too much to do. And while it’s a shame, shoutout to my hyperbolic header image for not really capturing how I feel about it. Which is more of a shrug and a “dang.”

Another major Marvel departure is breaking over the Memorial Day weekend. Drew Goddard, the director of The Cabin in the Woods and writer of Cloverfield, has reportedly left the Marvel’s Netflix TV show, Daredevil.

Latino Review once again broke the news.

Goddard had been attached to write, produce and run the show since last year and pre-production was believed to be ongoing. However, soon after landing the Daredevil job,  the writer/director was attached to write and direct The Sinister Six Spider-Man spin-off for Sony. That film was broadly teased in this summer’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and fans began to question how Goddard would not only write and direct that movie, but do a whole TV show as well. Now, it seems we know. He won’t.

If true – it being a holiday weekend, full confirmation is difficult – this would be the second young talent Marvel has lost in as many days. However, instead of the rumored controversy surrounding Edgar Wright and Ant-Man, this certainly seems more like a case of Goddard simply biting off more than he can chew and having to choose between Marvel franchises and mediums.

If that’s the case, it begs the question, would you have made the same decision? Write and direct The Sinister Six for the big screen instead of showrun a Daredevil TV show on Netflix? On paper, it makes absolutely perfect sense. Movies will always be more prestigious than TV, especially TV that’s not on TV. But that’s slowly and steadily changing thanks to shows like House of Cards. You’d have to imagine, Goddard simply is more connected to the Spider-Man characters and interested in the super challenges of turning six bad guys into a mainstream comic book movie. [/Film]