Jennifer Garner's Elektra he recently made his return to the big screen to much fanfare and acclaim, but his version of Daredevil's longtime lover wasn't always well received. Famous comic book artist Amanda Conner had a huge disappointment in 2005 Elektra a movie that really makes you cry watching it. Conner knows a thing or two about the actress, as she was actually the model for Elektra's main story.
Amanda Conner's husband, Jimmy Palmiotti, detailed how he became Elektra's model at the “Daredevil: 60-Year Anniversary” panel during Dragon Con 2024. “My wife (Amanda Conner) is actually Elektra Elektra Assassin,” Palmiotti said, referring to the 1986 series from writer Frank Miller and artist Bill Sienkiewicz.
Conner was working as Sienkiewicz's assistant at the time, and his favorite actress was Elektra. “Dressed up as a Halloween character,” continued Palmiotti, “and Bill said, 'I've got to take a million pictures of you for reference!'“
Singer Amanda Conner Became Elektra's Model in Elektra: Assassin
Like Elektra's first series, part eight Elektra: Assassin sees the title character kept in a mental institution in South America, his past memories erased. The following broken story involves political assassinations, psychic powers and SHIELD's cybernetic agents'80s excess filtered through the lens of Miller and Sienkiewicz's progressive sensibilities. The fact that Sienkiewicz's model of Elektra would go on to become one of the top artists working in comics for decades to come adds to the project's storied legacy.
Released in 1986, Elektra: Assassin it hit the industry like a bomb, and its devastating effects are still being felt today. It is very similar to the current series The Dark Knight Returns again They don't wait, Elektra: Assassin it helped to expand the scope of what comedy could be, turning what many considered to be something that could only be used by children into an art form to be taken seriously by the mainstream media. Much of that was in Sienkiewicz's brooding artwork, with his exaggerated painted style perfectly capturing the psychodrama and violence of Miller's writings.
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Given that Amanda Conner loved Elektra enough to dress her up for Halloween, it's understandable that she'd be excited about the antihero's big screen debut. Palmiotti jokingly recalled that they were going to see it Elektra the film when it first aired in 2005. At one point, Palmiotti said he looked over at Conner to see him crying. “Elektra is his favorite,” Palmiotti noted, highlighting how the film ultimately let them down.
With a rich source material like Elektra: Assassin pulling from, it's disappointing that it's over Elektra the solo film has strayed so far from the character in the comics as to be unrecognizable. But now that Jennifer Garner is back in the role Deadpool and Wolverinemaybe the actor can be persuaded to come back again to deliver something like this Elektra: Assassin on the big screen.
Source: Jimmy Palmiotti, “Daredevil: 60th Anniversary,” Dragon Con 2024