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Trivia: Director Mark Steven Johnson admitted in a 2023 interview celebrating the film's 20th anniversary that his one big regret was not telling a smaller story. In retrospect, he feels that putting a Daredevil origin story, an Elektra story, court/law-themed story (in the Director's Cut) and a Kingpin story was a little too much for one movie, and some of the material should have been saved for a potential sequel. But as a Daredevil fan, he wanted to put in everything he loved about the comic.

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Trivia: While the logo was introduced a year prior in 2002's "Spider-Man", this is the first film in which the Marvel "flipping pages" logo actually had the flipping pages sound effect added. To this day, 20 years later, that logo and sound effect are still sometimes used in non-MCU Marvel films.

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Trivia: Despite already being very tall at 6'5", Michael Clarke Duncan was often standing on boxes or wearing lift shoes in many of his scenes to add several more inches and make him look almost inhumanly massive. Specific camera angles were also used to make him look larger.

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Trivia: Michael Clarke Duncan was so well-liked in the role of Kingpin that he was asked to reprise the role (in voice-over form) in the 2003 "Spider-Man" animated series on MTV.

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Trivia: The film was in production around the same time as 2002's "Spider-Man." "Daredevil" was supposed to be a more modestly budgeted film aimed at a more adult audience, and was given a (relatively small by action-movie standards) $50 million budget. When "Spider-Man" came out and was a massive hit, the studio gave the "Daredevil" production an additional $30 million to make the film bigger and more bombastic in order to compete with Spidey's release.

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Trivia: The original cut of the film was rejected by the studio, who wanted a trimmed down version of the movie for theaters. This resulted in a theatrical film that was notably tame in comparison to some of the comic storylines that inspired it, and had some noticeable gaps in flow and logic. A few years later, an R-rated Director's Cut of the film was released on DVD that restored a half-hour of deleted scenes and had a harsher tone. The Director's Cut was better received by critics and fans than the the original theatrical edition, and when the film was finally released on Blu-Ray, the Director's Cut became the only version of the film released on the format.

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