Failure Becomes Elektra: Even Jennifer Garner Thought the Movie Was Bad, and More Fun Facts
They tried.
Daredevil wasn't good, and Ben Affleck wasn't particularly good in it, but he obviously had off-the-charts chemistry with Jennifer Garner as the mysterious yet very personable assassin Elektra Natchios—and the 2003 superhero movie made enough money ($179 million worldwide) for 20th Century Fox to greenlight a spin-off for Elektra herself.
And so Elektra came out in 2005, 15 years ago today—aka, during the new-release wasteland known as January, smack in the middle of award season—and promptly flopped.
It cost a reported $48 million to make and made $56.7 million.
It's 11 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
But that's Ok, everyone involved...
