According to The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, 20th Century Fox has tapped a fellow named David Slade to bring a new Daredevil film to life.

Word has it that it will be a continuation of Ben Affleck’s not perfect but certainly under-appreciated Daredevil film as opposed to a reboot. Which is good news since the last thing we need is a rehash of his origin story.

Slade has at least one other movie in production between now and Daredevil. He’s no stranger to comics adaptations or genre pictures, he directed the adaptation of 30 Days of Night and Twilight: Eclipse. He’s a music video director, so Daredevil might at least look cool.

There’s no word about Affleck’s involvement, but I thought he was a great Daredevil and I would love to see him take another crack at ol’ Hornhead.

And if Jerk-Bot’s sources are correct, this film needs to be in production by next year for Fox to retain the rights, so expect it to happen.

UPDATE 03/16/11, 3:45PM MT:

Hey BSR readers! Arse-bot here with a quick little update. THR has updated their original story with sources saying that this new story line will follow the “Born Again” story line!

Sources say the new story line will be the adaptation of the critically acclaimed Frank Miller-written and David Mazzucchelli-illustrated Born Again run of the comic series, which saw the Kingpin of Crime learn the identity of the superhero and begin to systematically destroy his life.

“Born Again” is one of my favorite DD story lines, one that I have read and re-read nearly a dozen times. While I’m quite excited to see this played out, it seems a bit like a story line that should come later in the franchise being that we have just barely established the character in one movie – a movie that is several years old now. That all being said though, I understand this has been a difficult franchise to get off the ground and who knows if we will even get more films beyond this, so I’d rather see it early (in my opinion) than not at all!

Daredevil is one my top three favorite superheroes, and I know he doesn’t have as much fan clout as Spider-Man and the X-Men, but neither does Iron Man and look how well that turned out in the right hands. I’m excited to see another DD film finally go into the works, and hopefully this time around it won’t be so underappreciated!