MattBrady
10-29-2002, 02:27 PM
originally posted August 22nd
With the announcement that Greg Rucka and Salvador Larocca would write and illustrate (respectively) a four-issue Ultimate Daredevil/Elektra mini-series beginning in November, a few things were obvious … Sure, the project was designed as a tie-in of sorts to the upcoming Daredevil movie, and is set to capitalize on what Marvel hopes will be the public and comic fans’ renewed interest in both Daredevil and Elektra, but why ‘Ultimatize’ the characters? Weren’t they already pretty easily-accessible in their Marvel Universe forms?
Newsarama.com tracked down Rucka and editor Jenny Lee to discuss the project, and more importantly, the changes the Ultimate versions of the characters will face. For Lee, in its inception, the project was an opportunity to work with Rucka again with the character they had both come to known fairly well.
”When Greg and I worked together on Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer, we logged a lot of hours talking about how problematic and contradictory Elektra was as a woman and a character,” Lee said. “Specifically, she's a female character who is powerful, violent, sexually fetish-ized, a survivor of abuse, and emotionally frigid. She kills people for money. And yet there is an unapologetic quality she has that really makes her glorious and compelling at the same time. She's kick-ass, but it comes at a terrible price. Greg understands that, and can negotiate that complex terrain without reducing her to a caricature, which is the danger of portraying someone with so many extreme qualities.
”He also has an incredible sense of obligation, respect, and responsibility when it comes to portraying strong female characters -it's constantly in the forefront of his creative mind, and that's pretty exceptional. Because he understands Elektra's flaws and strengths so thoroughly, who better to deconstruct her for a younger, Ultimate version? When we first talked about the project, I did ask him if he would be able to keep the two versions distinct creatively. He said yes.”
While the above thinking went into selecting Rucka for the project, from his end, landing the gig was a little simpler. “It was offered to me,” Rucka said. “I got a phone call with Quesada and Jenny, Bill Jemas and some other folks, and they offered it to me. I asked who was going to edit it, they said Jenny, and that was it - I was in. Salvador Larocca is doing the art, and it’s stylistically different from what he’s doing elsewhere – it looks really nice, really strong. I’m grooving on it.”
As for the timing, you’re right the first time – that little Daredevil movie coming out early next year? The fire under the rear of the mini-series. “This project was absolutely conceived with the movie release timing in mind,” Lee said. “The film will bring awareness of the Daredevil and Elektra characters to an all-time high, and if we can translate that interest into an expanded audience for the comics - whether they be the Marvel Knights Daredevil and Elektra monthlies, or this limited series as a jumping-on point, then so much the better.”
Yeah, But Why?
Previously, Quesada had said that, given Brian Bendis’ work on the regular Daredevil series, an “Ultimate” version of Daredevil wasn’t necessary. That feeling still holds, and also explains who will be the central character of the miniseries.
“Let’s be honest – what they called me about was that they wanted to do an Ultimate Elektra,” Rucka said. “I agreed, and then they said, ‘and Daredevil too.’ Even though Matt’s in it, don’t hold your breath if your looking for Ultimate Daredevil. Matt’s there, but the nature of the story is such that it’s a nascent Elektra, it’s a nascent Daredevil, and you know what? What Brian is doing on Daredevil is pretty much as definitive as has been done since Frank Miller and Klaus Janson handled the character. I’ve got no interest in mucking around with Daredevil. The Daredevil that we’re going to do for this is supposed to be ‘movie-viewer friendly,’ meaning that the one person who leaves the movie and decides that they have to have the comic book can pick this up and say, ‘That kinda looks like Ben Affleck. I guess.’”
Lee agreed with Rucka’s sentiment. “Brian is doing a terrific job at keeping DD accessible and compelling, just as Greg is telling great stories with Elektra. Accessibility is a non-negotiable and intrinsic attribute to the Ultimate line. It's an irrefutable component in the line's success. At the time of their conception, Ultimate books were created largely in response to lack of accessibility in books bogged down by continuity. The publishing landscape has changed drastically since; Marvel's mainline content has improved dramatically, become better and more accessible, which allows Ultimate books more flexibility to fill a different kind of role in response to that growth, tell different kinds of stories.
”What Bill [Jemas] and Joe couldn't resist was the opportunity to tell the modern-day story of young Matt Murdock and Elektra in love. They’re both secretly big 'ol romantics at heart.”
Even in the Ultimate Universe, “Young Matt Murdock and Elektra” were together at only one time – college. The mini-series will be set at Columbia University while both are undergraduates.
While the Ultimate version of the characters’ histories early years will be similar to their Marvel Universe counterparts, Elektra’s story will take a few different turns. “The story is not meant to be the Ultimate interpretation of Daredevil, because frankly, I’m not sure that he needs an Ultimazation – not in the way that Spider-Man did,” Elektra said. “But Elektra sure as hell did. Elektra really need a different take done here.”
Rucka isn’t scuttling all of Elektra’s past for the Ultimate version though – while the Ultimate version of Elektra won’t be as tied to tragedy as her MU version, there will be key similarities.
“It’s a chance to take a look at the really brilliant things that were created in the character, and those are the things that we don’t want to touch,” Rucka said. “But then, we can also take a look and see what we can do differently, which is kind of the delight of Ultimate line - how can we make it the same, but different? This Elektra is very different, but in many ways the same.
“Right now, I’m writing issue #2, and it’s set during freshman year at Columbia University in February. We’re not talking about things like the Hand and so on – this is the Ultimate version, and we were pretty much by orders, told to jettison that. Elektra Natchios is a very different woman in this than she is in the mainstream Marvel universe.”
Rucka said that the Ultimate Elektra and Daredevil relationship is related in a way to Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.’s Man Without Fear as Ultimate Spider-Man #1-#6 is to Amazing Fantasy #15, but if anything, is further from the source than the two versions of Spider-Man. The writer found out just how different Marvel wanted the versions of Elektra to be when he began writing.
“I wrote a draft that was cleaving pretty close to the original Elektra mythology, and it held really tightly to it, just with sort of, updated changes,” Rucka said. “It got bounced back to me in short order, actually. It came down from Jenny via Ralph Macchio who said it should be the Ultimate version – do as much different as I could – I wasn’t beholden to anything.”
Lee explained that both she and Rucka needed let go of the character’s history in creating the Ultimate version. “We had some hiccups in the first version of the story that got completely ironed out once it became clear that Bill and Joe truly were giving us a chance at a fresh start with Elektra and a whole new sandbox to play in,” Lee said. “Greg and I went down the laundry list of what we loved about the character and what we'd like to change and update, while still keeping her essence true. And in Ultimate Elektra, Greg has created a young woman who is confident, strong, assertive - but not infallible – a character who is completely in charge of her life and not simply reacting to the forces, and men around her. He's really done an incredible job.”
As a result of the communication from Macchio, Quesada and Jemas, Rucka re-wrote virtually the entire first issue, keeping only two pages. “As a result, the story focuses more on Elektra than it does on Matt,” Rucka said. “I don’t think we’re doing anything that disabuses stuff that has been done with Daredevil – there are elements that you’ll be able to look at and say, ‘Okay, there’s some Man Without Fear’ stuff here going on, but right now, he’s not the central focus character. He’s one of the primary characters, but the camera pretty much follows Elektra.”
She’s Elektra, But Not
As for specific changes to Elektra…well, Rucka is already expecting the hate mail. To start with, Elektra isn’t the daughter of a Greek diplomat who was murdered. “Elektra Natchios is a second-generation Greek immigrant’s daughter from Queens,” Rucka said. “Her father runs a string of dry-cleaning stores.”
Another change for the Ultimate version of Elektra already alluded to is her fairly normal childhood and college years. “It was really important for us in the Ultimate version to give Elektra friends, to give her female friends that she likes and that like her, and they all get along together,” Rucka said. “I suppose that’s the biggest fundamental difference – the mainstream Marvel Universe, Elektra is born quite literally from tragedy – Mom takes a bullet while Elektra is inside the womb, and that pretty much dictates the course of Elektra’s life from there on out. She’s born into misery and suffering.
“We chose to make the Ultimate one happy and well adjusted. She’s the kind of girl that when you’re in college, she was the one that everybody wanted to be friends with. She was pretty, she was friendly, but she wasn’t standoffish. She was smart, and she was funny, and it just happens that she’s been doing martial arts since she was six.”
The move from the daughter of a dry-cleaner to the apparently cold-blooded assassin who showed up in Ultimate Team-Up Super-Special #1isn’t a quick one, nor is it one that doesn’t have other stops along the way, but Rucka was fairly silent on how a well-adjusted college coed goes from party girl to stone cold killer. “Miller’s original introduction of Elektra was as a bounty hunter, not an assassin,” Rucka said. “There’s a difference there – she evolved into an assassin. Bounty hunter is a different job description.”
Rucka’s best analogy for the differences between the Marvel Universe Elektra and her Ultimate counterpart? Cars. “We didn’t really get under the hood or anything, we just looked at it, and said, ‘You know - the Volkswagen bug of 1968 is not quite the Bug of 2002.’ They’re the same, but not. They have distinct similarities, but they also have differences. This is the same Elektra, but not.”
Ultimately Matt Murdock
As Rucka said, neither Matt Murdock nor Daredevil need much, if any tweaking to fit into the Ultimate universe, and he’s not about to tweak anything capriciously. “Writing Matt in college is fun,” Rucka said. “Unlike Elektra in this thing, and even in the original Marvel Universe, Elektra isn’t formed in college – she’s forming. Matt comes in with powers, man, he comes in already able to do cool stuff.
“Matt in college is amazing – he’s this kid who’s there on scholarship, and he’s working like nuts, but every time you see him in college, and you’d look at Klaus’ [Janson’s] art, he always has this little smile – he’s kind of happy to be there. He’s relishing the experience, and that’s nice to play with.”
Rucka’s enthusiasm for Matt also extends to Murdock’s closest friend. “I like Foggy a lot – I haven’t used him a whole lot yet, but he has to be there,” Rucka said. “We’re trying to figure out what the Ultimate Foggy should look like – I was joking with Jenny that he should be tall and really skinny – with a big Adam’s apple. We’ll see.”
The Lovebirds
According to Rucka, the relationship between Matt and Elektra is fueled partly by the mutual attraction the two have for one another, as well as the passions that fire the hearts and minds of all college students.
“One of the things that Jenny and I have been working on really hard has been trying to capture those feelings of being in college – sitting around in a dorm room late at night eating pizza,” Rucka said. “I really like the interactions that we’ve been coming up between Matt and Elektra – they’re really fun. It’s nice to write people who play off of each other well. So, instead of going by the mainstream Marvel Universe version, where Elektra says three words before sliding a knife between your ribs, this one can and does talk.
“We’re going to talk about how two people can be with each other in the way that you fall in love in college, with that perfect intensity where everything is electric and beautiful, and the highs are astronomically high, and the lows are just so low – how you can balance that with what will develop as a fundamental difference in philosophy,” Rucka continued. “That fundamental difference in philosophy is not going to happen in a vacuum.”
The differences that develop between Matt and Elektra in college will be the same ones that keep the wedge between them, and prevent them from ever finding happiness. “It all comes down to questions of law, and this is where you get some great stuff between Elektra and Matt,” Rucka said. “Matt always knows that he’s going to be an attorney – he goes to school, and that’s his intent. There’s an issue between them of what the law does, what the law can do, and where the law fails, and at the heart of the story is the failing in the law that Elektra cannot abide, but Matt can, because Matt is more willing to be beholden to the law. Even as a vigilante, Daredevil has always been beholden to the law – he works with the cops.”
While Matt/Daredevil goes up to, and stops at the line, Elektra crosses it.
Where does the series leave Elektra at its end, as a character? Rucka’s not saying whether or not she’ll be fully formed, or merely one step closer to her fully developed identity. However, he did reveal that one crucial piece of the Daredevil/Elektra relationship will be in place.
“One of the things that I love about Daredevil and Elektra is that it’s a tragic love story,” Rucka said. “Everybody goes to college and has a tragic love story, so that’s what this is. Where does the story end? The story ends where it needs to end, that is, it ends with Elektra and Matt wanting each other, and wanting to be with each other, but no longer being able to be, because of decisions each of them has made.”
All of he above said, Rucka stressed that the dynamics of the relationship between Matt and Elektra are only part of the story. “Jeez, hearing myself talk, you could get the idea that it’s only people walking around in college and talking – that’s not what happens. There is a bad guy, there are bad things going on. It’s like Felicity, but with Sais and fighting…and a blind guy. Joking aside, I’m thoroughly enjoying being able to do it. It’s been a great project so far.”
Finally, while Lee doesn’t completely dismiss the idea of the mini-series acting as a springboard for an ongoing Elektra series in the Ultimate line, she said no such series is planned at this time.
With the announcement that Greg Rucka and Salvador Larocca would write and illustrate (respectively) a four-issue Ultimate Daredevil/Elektra mini-series beginning in November, a few things were obvious … Sure, the project was designed as a tie-in of sorts to the upcoming Daredevil movie, and is set to capitalize on what Marvel hopes will be the public and comic fans’ renewed interest in both Daredevil and Elektra, but why ‘Ultimatize’ the characters? Weren’t they already pretty easily-accessible in their Marvel Universe forms?
Newsarama.com tracked down Rucka and editor Jenny Lee to discuss the project, and more importantly, the changes the Ultimate versions of the characters will face. For Lee, in its inception, the project was an opportunity to work with Rucka again with the character they had both come to known fairly well.
”When Greg and I worked together on Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer, we logged a lot of hours talking about how problematic and contradictory Elektra was as a woman and a character,” Lee said. “Specifically, she's a female character who is powerful, violent, sexually fetish-ized, a survivor of abuse, and emotionally frigid. She kills people for money. And yet there is an unapologetic quality she has that really makes her glorious and compelling at the same time. She's kick-ass, but it comes at a terrible price. Greg understands that, and can negotiate that complex terrain without reducing her to a caricature, which is the danger of portraying someone with so many extreme qualities.
”He also has an incredible sense of obligation, respect, and responsibility when it comes to portraying strong female characters -it's constantly in the forefront of his creative mind, and that's pretty exceptional. Because he understands Elektra's flaws and strengths so thoroughly, who better to deconstruct her for a younger, Ultimate version? When we first talked about the project, I did ask him if he would be able to keep the two versions distinct creatively. He said yes.”
While the above thinking went into selecting Rucka for the project, from his end, landing the gig was a little simpler. “It was offered to me,” Rucka said. “I got a phone call with Quesada and Jenny, Bill Jemas and some other folks, and they offered it to me. I asked who was going to edit it, they said Jenny, and that was it - I was in. Salvador Larocca is doing the art, and it’s stylistically different from what he’s doing elsewhere – it looks really nice, really strong. I’m grooving on it.”
As for the timing, you’re right the first time – that little Daredevil movie coming out early next year? The fire under the rear of the mini-series. “This project was absolutely conceived with the movie release timing in mind,” Lee said. “The film will bring awareness of the Daredevil and Elektra characters to an all-time high, and if we can translate that interest into an expanded audience for the comics - whether they be the Marvel Knights Daredevil and Elektra monthlies, or this limited series as a jumping-on point, then so much the better.”
Yeah, But Why?
Previously, Quesada had said that, given Brian Bendis’ work on the regular Daredevil series, an “Ultimate” version of Daredevil wasn’t necessary. That feeling still holds, and also explains who will be the central character of the miniseries.
“Let’s be honest – what they called me about was that they wanted to do an Ultimate Elektra,” Rucka said. “I agreed, and then they said, ‘and Daredevil too.’ Even though Matt’s in it, don’t hold your breath if your looking for Ultimate Daredevil. Matt’s there, but the nature of the story is such that it’s a nascent Elektra, it’s a nascent Daredevil, and you know what? What Brian is doing on Daredevil is pretty much as definitive as has been done since Frank Miller and Klaus Janson handled the character. I’ve got no interest in mucking around with Daredevil. The Daredevil that we’re going to do for this is supposed to be ‘movie-viewer friendly,’ meaning that the one person who leaves the movie and decides that they have to have the comic book can pick this up and say, ‘That kinda looks like Ben Affleck. I guess.’”
Lee agreed with Rucka’s sentiment. “Brian is doing a terrific job at keeping DD accessible and compelling, just as Greg is telling great stories with Elektra. Accessibility is a non-negotiable and intrinsic attribute to the Ultimate line. It's an irrefutable component in the line's success. At the time of their conception, Ultimate books were created largely in response to lack of accessibility in books bogged down by continuity. The publishing landscape has changed drastically since; Marvel's mainline content has improved dramatically, become better and more accessible, which allows Ultimate books more flexibility to fill a different kind of role in response to that growth, tell different kinds of stories.
”What Bill [Jemas] and Joe couldn't resist was the opportunity to tell the modern-day story of young Matt Murdock and Elektra in love. They’re both secretly big 'ol romantics at heart.”
Even in the Ultimate Universe, “Young Matt Murdock and Elektra” were together at only one time – college. The mini-series will be set at Columbia University while both are undergraduates.
While the Ultimate version of the characters’ histories early years will be similar to their Marvel Universe counterparts, Elektra’s story will take a few different turns. “The story is not meant to be the Ultimate interpretation of Daredevil, because frankly, I’m not sure that he needs an Ultimazation – not in the way that Spider-Man did,” Elektra said. “But Elektra sure as hell did. Elektra really need a different take done here.”
Rucka isn’t scuttling all of Elektra’s past for the Ultimate version though – while the Ultimate version of Elektra won’t be as tied to tragedy as her MU version, there will be key similarities.
“It’s a chance to take a look at the really brilliant things that were created in the character, and those are the things that we don’t want to touch,” Rucka said. “But then, we can also take a look and see what we can do differently, which is kind of the delight of Ultimate line - how can we make it the same, but different? This Elektra is very different, but in many ways the same.
“Right now, I’m writing issue #2, and it’s set during freshman year at Columbia University in February. We’re not talking about things like the Hand and so on – this is the Ultimate version, and we were pretty much by orders, told to jettison that. Elektra Natchios is a very different woman in this than she is in the mainstream Marvel universe.”
Rucka said that the Ultimate Elektra and Daredevil relationship is related in a way to Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.’s Man Without Fear as Ultimate Spider-Man #1-#6 is to Amazing Fantasy #15, but if anything, is further from the source than the two versions of Spider-Man. The writer found out just how different Marvel wanted the versions of Elektra to be when he began writing.
“I wrote a draft that was cleaving pretty close to the original Elektra mythology, and it held really tightly to it, just with sort of, updated changes,” Rucka said. “It got bounced back to me in short order, actually. It came down from Jenny via Ralph Macchio who said it should be the Ultimate version – do as much different as I could – I wasn’t beholden to anything.”
Lee explained that both she and Rucka needed let go of the character’s history in creating the Ultimate version. “We had some hiccups in the first version of the story that got completely ironed out once it became clear that Bill and Joe truly were giving us a chance at a fresh start with Elektra and a whole new sandbox to play in,” Lee said. “Greg and I went down the laundry list of what we loved about the character and what we'd like to change and update, while still keeping her essence true. And in Ultimate Elektra, Greg has created a young woman who is confident, strong, assertive - but not infallible – a character who is completely in charge of her life and not simply reacting to the forces, and men around her. He's really done an incredible job.”
As a result of the communication from Macchio, Quesada and Jemas, Rucka re-wrote virtually the entire first issue, keeping only two pages. “As a result, the story focuses more on Elektra than it does on Matt,” Rucka said. “I don’t think we’re doing anything that disabuses stuff that has been done with Daredevil – there are elements that you’ll be able to look at and say, ‘Okay, there’s some Man Without Fear’ stuff here going on, but right now, he’s not the central focus character. He’s one of the primary characters, but the camera pretty much follows Elektra.”
She’s Elektra, But Not
As for specific changes to Elektra…well, Rucka is already expecting the hate mail. To start with, Elektra isn’t the daughter of a Greek diplomat who was murdered. “Elektra Natchios is a second-generation Greek immigrant’s daughter from Queens,” Rucka said. “Her father runs a string of dry-cleaning stores.”
Another change for the Ultimate version of Elektra already alluded to is her fairly normal childhood and college years. “It was really important for us in the Ultimate version to give Elektra friends, to give her female friends that she likes and that like her, and they all get along together,” Rucka said. “I suppose that’s the biggest fundamental difference – the mainstream Marvel Universe, Elektra is born quite literally from tragedy – Mom takes a bullet while Elektra is inside the womb, and that pretty much dictates the course of Elektra’s life from there on out. She’s born into misery and suffering.
“We chose to make the Ultimate one happy and well adjusted. She’s the kind of girl that when you’re in college, she was the one that everybody wanted to be friends with. She was pretty, she was friendly, but she wasn’t standoffish. She was smart, and she was funny, and it just happens that she’s been doing martial arts since she was six.”
The move from the daughter of a dry-cleaner to the apparently cold-blooded assassin who showed up in Ultimate Team-Up Super-Special #1isn’t a quick one, nor is it one that doesn’t have other stops along the way, but Rucka was fairly silent on how a well-adjusted college coed goes from party girl to stone cold killer. “Miller’s original introduction of Elektra was as a bounty hunter, not an assassin,” Rucka said. “There’s a difference there – she evolved into an assassin. Bounty hunter is a different job description.”
Rucka’s best analogy for the differences between the Marvel Universe Elektra and her Ultimate counterpart? Cars. “We didn’t really get under the hood or anything, we just looked at it, and said, ‘You know - the Volkswagen bug of 1968 is not quite the Bug of 2002.’ They’re the same, but not. They have distinct similarities, but they also have differences. This is the same Elektra, but not.”
Ultimately Matt Murdock
As Rucka said, neither Matt Murdock nor Daredevil need much, if any tweaking to fit into the Ultimate universe, and he’s not about to tweak anything capriciously. “Writing Matt in college is fun,” Rucka said. “Unlike Elektra in this thing, and even in the original Marvel Universe, Elektra isn’t formed in college – she’s forming. Matt comes in with powers, man, he comes in already able to do cool stuff.
“Matt in college is amazing – he’s this kid who’s there on scholarship, and he’s working like nuts, but every time you see him in college, and you’d look at Klaus’ [Janson’s] art, he always has this little smile – he’s kind of happy to be there. He’s relishing the experience, and that’s nice to play with.”
Rucka’s enthusiasm for Matt also extends to Murdock’s closest friend. “I like Foggy a lot – I haven’t used him a whole lot yet, but he has to be there,” Rucka said. “We’re trying to figure out what the Ultimate Foggy should look like – I was joking with Jenny that he should be tall and really skinny – with a big Adam’s apple. We’ll see.”
The Lovebirds
According to Rucka, the relationship between Matt and Elektra is fueled partly by the mutual attraction the two have for one another, as well as the passions that fire the hearts and minds of all college students.
“One of the things that Jenny and I have been working on really hard has been trying to capture those feelings of being in college – sitting around in a dorm room late at night eating pizza,” Rucka said. “I really like the interactions that we’ve been coming up between Matt and Elektra – they’re really fun. It’s nice to write people who play off of each other well. So, instead of going by the mainstream Marvel Universe version, where Elektra says three words before sliding a knife between your ribs, this one can and does talk.
“We’re going to talk about how two people can be with each other in the way that you fall in love in college, with that perfect intensity where everything is electric and beautiful, and the highs are astronomically high, and the lows are just so low – how you can balance that with what will develop as a fundamental difference in philosophy,” Rucka continued. “That fundamental difference in philosophy is not going to happen in a vacuum.”
The differences that develop between Matt and Elektra in college will be the same ones that keep the wedge between them, and prevent them from ever finding happiness. “It all comes down to questions of law, and this is where you get some great stuff between Elektra and Matt,” Rucka said. “Matt always knows that he’s going to be an attorney – he goes to school, and that’s his intent. There’s an issue between them of what the law does, what the law can do, and where the law fails, and at the heart of the story is the failing in the law that Elektra cannot abide, but Matt can, because Matt is more willing to be beholden to the law. Even as a vigilante, Daredevil has always been beholden to the law – he works with the cops.”
While Matt/Daredevil goes up to, and stops at the line, Elektra crosses it.
Where does the series leave Elektra at its end, as a character? Rucka’s not saying whether or not she’ll be fully formed, or merely one step closer to her fully developed identity. However, he did reveal that one crucial piece of the Daredevil/Elektra relationship will be in place.
“One of the things that I love about Daredevil and Elektra is that it’s a tragic love story,” Rucka said. “Everybody goes to college and has a tragic love story, so that’s what this is. Where does the story end? The story ends where it needs to end, that is, it ends with Elektra and Matt wanting each other, and wanting to be with each other, but no longer being able to be, because of decisions each of them has made.”
All of he above said, Rucka stressed that the dynamics of the relationship between Matt and Elektra are only part of the story. “Jeez, hearing myself talk, you could get the idea that it’s only people walking around in college and talking – that’s not what happens. There is a bad guy, there are bad things going on. It’s like Felicity, but with Sais and fighting…and a blind guy. Joking aside, I’m thoroughly enjoying being able to do it. It’s been a great project so far.”
Finally, while Lee doesn’t completely dismiss the idea of the mini-series acting as a springboard for an ongoing Elektra series in the Ultimate line, she said no such series is planned at this time.