Director Kevin Smith has asked to direct a future episode of Marvel's Netflix-exclusive Daredevil series, and calls the idea of directing its upcoming Defenders crossover mini-series, "phenomenal"

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Speaking to IGN's Gav Murphy whilst promoting his new film Yoga Hosers ' appearance at the Edinburgh Film festival, Smith - who recently directed an episode of DC series The Flash and is scheduled to direct another in August - said:"I feel very at home in that Flash world, so much so that I'd love to do the others. I even told [Marvel chief creative officer] Joe Quesada - we worked on Daredevil together back in the day, I wrote it, he drew it - I said, 'Dude, I want to direct Daredevil, man. That'd be wild to be able to do it in real-life - let's co-direct it, that'd be cool, just like we did the book. We could co-direct an episode and then, like, take the passion from the page to the screen.'"I'm going to try and make that Daredevil thing happen. Every time I talk to Quesada or [Executive Vice President of Marvel Television] Jeph Loeb, I'm like, 'Hey! When are you going back down to the cameras?'"It seems Smith's open to other Marvel TV projects, too:"You know, they're gearing up now for The Defenders," he said. "If I can get a piece of that Defenders mini-series holy s**t, could you imagine, dude? Because then you're working with multiple suits at once, that'd be phenomenal."Just doing a mini Avengers - even one episode of that run of Defenders is like, 'oh, I get to exercise any interest I had in Avengers but doing it on a scale where nobody's betting $200 million on the guy that made f**kin' Yoga Hosers.'Despite his grounding in film, Smith's clearly far more comfortable with the idea of directing superhero-based projects in an episodic TV format."I don't know if a feature would be [for me]," he explained. "In episodic, somebody did all the heavy lifting for you, told this backstory, and added to the characters and stuff, so you've got this rich tapestry to play with for an hour where you don't have to tell everybody and origin story, or tell everyone how this person feels about being this character."In movies, spectacle's what drives that engine, because that's what they're going to put in the trailer, that's what's going to make you leave your house to go see it. 'Holy s**t! Did you see that shot of a giant wave?' I'm not that guy. I'm the guy where they've got to sell it on, 'oh, did you see that scene where they were talking to each other?' That's generally not what people are looking for in a comic book movie."The Edinburgh International Film Festival takes place from 15-26 June. The UK Premiere of Yoga Hosers is on Tuesday 21st June and Smith will take part in an in-person Q&A on Wednesday 22nd June.

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