Elektra
Directed by	Rob Bowman
Produced by	Avi Arad Gary Foster Arnon Milchan
Written by	Screenplay: Zak Penn Stuart Zicherman Raven Metzner Comic Book: Frank Miller
Starring	Jennifer Garner Goran Višnjić Kirsten Prout Will Yun Lee Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Terence Stamp
Music by	Christophe Beck
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	January 14, 2005
Running time	Theatrical Cut: 96 min. Director's Cut: 99 min.
Language	English
Budget	$43,000,000
Gross revenue	$56,681,566[1]
Preceded by	Daredevil
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Elektra is a 2005 action movie directed by Rob Bowman. It is a spin-off to the 2003 movie Daredevil, starring the Marvel comics character Elektra Natchios (played by Jennifer Garner). The story follows Elektra, an international assassin whose weapon of choice is a pair of Sai. Image File history File links Elektra_teaser. ... Rob S. Bowman (Born: May 15, 1960 in Wichita County, Texas, USA) is an American prolific filmmaker most notable for his work on sci-fi series such as The X-Files and Star Trek. ... Avi Arad (Hebrew: אבי ארד) is an Israeli-American businessman. ... Arnon Milchan (1945-) is movie producer and businessman. ... Zak Penn Zak Penn (born 1968) is a screenwriter and director who is known for writing and directing Incident at Loch Ness and co-writing the script for X-Men: The Last Stand. ... This article is about Frank Miller, the comic book writer and artist and movie writer and director. ... Jennifer Anne Garner[1] (born April 17, 1972) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning American actress. ... Goran Višnjić (pronounced // (VISH-nyich); born September 9, 1972) is a Croatian actor who has appeared in American films and television productions. ... Kirsten Prout (born September 28, 1990) is a Canadian actress born in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... Will Yun Lee is a Korean American actor born March 22, 1975 in Arlington, Virginia. ... Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa , born 27 September 1950) is a Japanese American actor. ... Terence Henry Stamp (born July 22, 1938[1]) is an English actor. ... Christophe Beck interviewed on a Buffy The Vampire Slayer DVD featurette Christophe Beck (born 1972 in Montreal, Canada), also credited as Chris Beck, is a Canadian film and television composer. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 2005 in film involved some significant events. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... USD redirects here. ... USD redirects here. ... Daredevil is a 2003 movie directed by Mark Steven Johnson, who also wrote the screenplay. ... The year 2005 in film involved some significant events. ... Look up Action film in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Director Herbert Brenon with actress Alla Nazimova on the set of War Brides, 1916 A director is a person who directs the making of a film. ... Rob S. Bowman (Born: May 15, 1960 in Wichita County, Texas, USA) is an American prolific filmmaker most notable for his work on sci-fi series such as The X-Files and Star Trek. ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. ... Daredevil is a 2003 movie directed by Mark Steven Johnson, who also wrote the screenplay. ... This article is about the comic book company. ... Elektra Natchios, usually known only by her first name Elektra, is a fictional character in publications from Marvel Comics. ... Jennifer Anne Garner[1] (born April 17, 1972) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning American actress. ... Two sai For other meanings of the word sai, see Sai (disambiguation). ...

For the screenplay, Zak Penn, Stuart Zicherman and Raven Metzner received "written by" credit. Mark Steven Johnson received credit for "motion picture characters" and Frank Miller for "comic book characters." Zak Penn Zak Penn (born 1968) is a screenwriter and director who is known for writing and directing Incident at Loch Ness and co-writing the script for X-Men: The Last Stand. ... This article is about Frank Miller, the comic book writer and artist and movie writer and director. ...

Plot

The film continues the storyline of the film Daredevil wherein Elektra was killed by Bullseye. The story is introduced by a man's voice (later revealed to be the sensei Stick) explaining that there is an ancient war being fought between good and evil. The evil is introduced as a group called The Hand, whilst the good follow Kimagure, a martial art that supposedly makes its practitioners able to foresee the future and control life and death. Daredevil is a 2003 movie directed by Mark Steven Johnson, who also wrote the screenplay. ... Bullseye is a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Look up Sensei in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The mysterious Stick is a sensei who trained the young Matt Murdock (Daredevil) to control his senses and taught him the acrobatic martial arts that would make him so formidable. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Hand is a group of fictional supervillains in the Marvel Comics universe. ...

The next scene portrays the death of a character named DeMarco, whom Elektra kills by throwing one of her Sai behind DeMarco while he is sitting behind a chair, introducing her as an assassin. It is later revealed that the dead Elektra was revived by Stick. For a while she was trained as his student, but soon she is asked to leave; thus beginning her life as an assassin.

Elektra receives an assignment to assassinate Mark Miller (Goran Visnjic), and his 13-year-old daughter, Abby. As part of the contract, she is required to stay for some days on their island refuge before the targets are revealed. In this time she unknowingly meets and befriends the two people she has been hired to kill. When told Mark and Abby are the targets, she is unable to kill them and goes to leave the island, in the process noticing two new assassins. Instead of leaving the island, Elektra returns to Mark and Abby's house and kills the two newcomers, in the process discovering they have been sent by The Hand. Goran Visnjic (Croatian: Goran Višnjić, pronounced // (VISH-nyich), on September 9, 1972) is a Croatian actor who has appeared in American films and television productions. ...

Under the misapprehension it is Mark that The Hand wish dead, she leads the pair to Stick (Stamp), as he is apparently leading the fight against The Hand. In a pool club, she confronts Stick by trying to grab his throat, but he grabs hers and slams her onto a pool table. He then tells her she has not changed since she left his tutorship. Elektra also discovers Mark knows why The Hand is following them, although viewers do not learn the reason at this point.

Meanwhile after the failure of the two Hand assassins, the leader of the group gives the task of capturing the "Treasure" (hinted to be Abby) to his son Kirigi and his fellow warriors, each of whom has unique ability: Stone, who has the ability of superhuman strength and is physically invulnerable to anything that is brought to him; Tattoo, who has the ability to summon immortal animal's from the endless tattoos on his body; Kinkou, who has incredible speed and agility through perfect balance, and Typhoid, who can poison anything in her path as she wishes. Kirigi is a fictional ninja assassin in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Stone was the favoured pupil of Stick, the blind former mentor of costumed crime-fighter Daredevil and Elektra Natchios. ... Tattoo, later Longstrike, is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. ... This article is about a Marvel Comics villain. ...

Elektra leaves the pool club in anger and is followed by Abby and Mark. Noticing an eagle appearing out of graffiti art on a wall, she realises The Hand has found them and decides to help the pair again. She drives them to the house of McCabe, her negotiating agent. Kirigi follows them to the house and, after killing McCabe, hunts down the trio in the forest. Elektra kills Stone by having him break down a large tree and making sure it crushes him, whilst Abby and Mark kill Kinkou with one of his own daggers. In the process, Elektra discovers Abby has martial arts skills. Distracted by this knowledge, Elektra is attacked by Typhoid, who kisses her in an attempt to kill her. Abby attempts to intervene, but is stopped by Kirigi.

At this point Stick and his pupils intervene, rescuing Abby, Mark and Elektra from the Hand warriors. They all return to Stick's training camp. Here Stick confirms that Abby is the 'Treasure', a prodigy whom the Hand want for their own purposes. He tells Elektra, who has been cured of Typhoid's attack, that Abby must remain under his protection as long as Kirigi is alive. She also realises it was Stick who originally hired her to kill Mark and Abby, apparently as a psychological trick. She questions whether everything that has happened since Stick had expelled her from the camp has been a test, to which Stick replies that some lessons have to be lived to be understood; possibly hinting that this is the case.

Abby tells Elektra she doesn't want to have to stay in the camp forever. In an effort to let Abby lead a normal life, Elektra makes a deal with Kirigi: a fight between the two which will decide Abby's fate. If Elektra is defeated, Abby is given to Kirigi. If Kirigi is defeated, then Abby is free forever.

Elektra returns to the house where her mother was killed (by Kirigi, as she soon discovers), and battles Hand warriors and Kirigi himself. Kirigi quickly beats her and is about to kill her when Abby appears, having followed Elektra. They escape Kirigi and hide in a maze. After they are separated in the maze, Elektra kills Tattoo, who has summoned snakes to capture Abby, by breaking his neck. Elektra then searches for Abby. In the centre of the maze, Elektra once again encounters and fights Kirigi, this time killing him by impaling him with one of her Sai and dropping his body in a well, where he turns to dust. Meanwhile Abby has been attacked and killed by Typhoid who says she is jealous of Abby for being the new "Treasure," because Typhoid was once the Treasure herself. Elektra senses this and throws one of her Sai, killing Typhoid.

Elektra carries Abby's body back to the house, where she successfully revives her, completing her journey to becoming a Kimagure master. The film ends with Elektra and Stick discussing her and Abby's lives. Stick tells her that second lives can often be better than the first.

References to Daredevil

There are a few references to the Daredevil movie in this film. Besides Jennifer Garner returning to the role of Elektra Natchios from the first film, there is a deleted scene in the DVD area of the film which involves Elektra having a dream sequence once she is cured from Typhoid's poisonous kiss where she sees her ex-lover, Matt Murdock, the alter ego of Daredevil in the previous film, say he wants her to come back to live with him. Elektra's agent, McCabe, asks Elektra one time in the film if she "ever got laid," implying the act of sexual copulation, which she did commit with Matt Murdock. The final reference is a flashback sequence which shows Stick reviving Elektra back from the dead after she was killed by Bullseye in the first movie. In the flashback, Elektra is still wearing the costume she wore in the original film.There is also a graffiti drawing of Daredevil outside the biker bar. Alter Ego has multiple meanings: Alter Ego is a game for the Commodore 64 computer. ...

Cast

Jennifer Anne Garner[1] (born April 17, 1972) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning American actress. ... Elektra Natchios is a fictional character from Marvel Comics. ... Terence Henry Stamp (born July 22, 1938[1]) is an English actor. ... The mysterious Stick is a sensei who trained the young Matt Murdock (Daredevil) to control his senses and taught him the acrobatic martial arts that would make him so formidable. ... Will Yun Lee is a Korean American actor born March 22, 1975 in Arlington, Virginia. ... Kirigi is a fictional ninja assassin in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Goran Višnjić (pronounced // (VISH-nyich); born September 9, 1972) is a Croatian actor who has appeared in American films and television productions. ... Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa , born 27 September 1950) is a Japanese American actor. ... Colin Cunningham at a science fiction convention Colin Cunningham (born 20 August 1967 in California, USA) is an American television and film actor, now living in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is a British actor. ... Hiro Kanagawa (born October 13, 1963) is a Vancouver-based actor. ... Natassia Malthe (born 19 January 1974) is a Norwegian model and actress. ... This article is about a Marvel Comics villain. ... Kirsten Prout (born September 28, 1990) is a Canadian actress born in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... Robert Malcolm Sapp[1] aka Bob The Beast Sapp （ボブサップ）(born September 22, 1974) is an American kickboxer, mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and former world champion professional wrestler and professional American Football player. ... Stone was the favoured pupil of Stick, the blind former mentor of costumed crime-fighter Daredevil and Elektra Natchios. ... Chris Ackerman (born May 16, 1978) is a US actor. ... Tattoo, later Longstrike, is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. ... For the American cement businessman, see B. F. Affleck. ... For other uses, see Daredevil (comics). ...

Character development

Just as Daredevil was for Matt Murdock, the film is about Elektra coping with her childhood experiences and putting them behind her. Throughout the film we are shown her childhood self discovering her mother's murder. The memory appears to be hazy and the assassin she sees becomes clearer every time the memory is shown. Towards the end of the film, the memory properly surfaces and she realises it was Kirigi who killed her mother, just as Daredevil realized it was the Kingpin who killed his father. Daredevil is a 2003 movie directed by Mark Steven Johnson, who also wrote the screenplay. ... Cover to Daredevil v2 #41. ...

There are also a few scenes in reference to her father. This man does not seem to be similar to the one shown in Daredevil (who treats his daughter well) as he is shown forcing her to tread water without use of her hands for long periods of time. However, it is likely that Elektra's father might have changed toward her, probably because Kirigi killed his wife.

It is suggested that the death of her mother and the behavior of her father caused deep emotional problems for Elektra, possibly causing the OCD. She denies having OCD to Abby toward the end of the film. For other things named OCD, see OCD (disambiguation). ...

There are also many similarities between Abby and Elektra. Both have lost their mothers at an early age, both are good martial artists, and both may suffer from OCD. It is possible that, in Abby, Elektra sees and begins to understand her childhood self, allowing her (as Stick says in the film) to forget her rage and anger.

Critical reaction and box office response

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Elektra garnered a mixed reaction from critics and fans. (film sold well on DVD^{[citation needed]}. An extended and slightly refined 2-disc edition director's cut DVD was released in October 2005. The director's cut features a different cut of Elektra detailed for a home video. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...

Canceled video game

Elektra was also supposed to have a video game based on the movie, or the comics. It would go into the comics just like any other comic book movie, but it was never released, as publishers felt it would not be popular enough. However, there is a game based on the movie that was released for mobile. There is a petition online by a publisher, who said the only way they would make it is if a lot of people signed up for Elektra: The Game.^[2] Computer and video games redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Screenshot from a mobile fighting game, Fightality A mobile game is a video game played on a mobile phone, smartphone, PDA, handheld computer or any type of handheld or wireless device. ...

See also

• Elektra: The Album

References

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External links

• Elektra at Marvel.com
• Official site
• Elektra at the Internet Movie Database