"Fringe" writer/producer Brad Caleb Kane has been hired to pen the relaunch of the "Daredevil" franchise at 20th Century Fox and Regency reports Heat Vision.

David Slade is developing and attached to direct the new take on Marvel's blind superhero which they previously adapted into a film in 2003.

Kane has reportedly been asked asked to adapt Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s "Born Again" storyline from the comic, considered one of the most influential and acclaimed comic stories of all time.

Peter Chernin and Dylan Clark are producing.