Trivia / Elektra

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $43 million. Box office, $24,409,722 (domestic), $56,681,556 (worldwide). The only Marvel films that grossed lower than this film are Man-Thing, Punisher: War Zone and The New Mutants.
• Christmas Rushed: The film was rushed into production and release. Producer Avi Arad admitted it was a mistake to do so.
• Contractual Obligation Project: Jennifer Garner only did the movie due to contractual obligations from Daredevil (2003).
• Creator Backlash: Jennifer Garner revealed that she felt that the movie was awful, according to Michael Vartan. He said that she told him that she only did the movie because it was in her contract thanks to Daredevil (2003).
• Creator Killer: The film killed the cinematic career of director Rob Bowman, whose credits past this point are on TV.
• Deleted Role: Ben Affleck filmed a scene as Matt Murdock, but it was cut for unknown reasons.
• Deleted Scene:
  • A lot of the deleted scenes on the Director's Cut reveal Elektra's backstory from her childhood.
  • Also one where she has a rather steamy dream involving her ex, Matt Murdock.
• Executive Meddling: The original cut was rated R but had to be toned down due to contractual obligations.
• Franchise Killer: Daredevil (2003) put it on life support, and Elektra put a firm-sai-into-the-gut into the franchise, for lack of a better analogy. The rights reverted back to Marvel within 7 years and they negated the continuity of the movies.
• Genre-Killer: Along with Catwoman (2004), Elektra made female superhero movies toxic for a decade. Wonder Woman (2017) would be the next major attempt, and was a major hit that finally breathed life into the genre.
• Hey, It's That Place!: The boat house is the same one from Fifty Shades of Grey.
• Lying Creator: Promotional materials claimed that the film had ties to the X-Men Film Series, as they were more popular than the Daredevil film. They only mentioned it as actually being only a Daredevil spin-off a week before its release. Amusingly, Elektra ultimately would getting involved in the X-Men franchise by appearing in Deadpool & Wolverine, a whopping 19 years after this film's release.
• Missing Trailer Scene: Trailers and TV spots show a ring of energy spreading out from the maze in the final action scenes. It does not show up in the final film.
• On-Set Injury: While filming the sai/sword fight, Jennifer Garner accidentally got her knuckles sliced by Will Yun Lee. She got her knuckles patched up, and when she and Lee resumed, he subsequently sliced her again in the exact same spot.
• Preview Piggybacking: Screenings of the film came with the first trailer of Fantastic Four (2005).
• Star-Derailing Role: This film did some damage to Jennifer Garner's career, not helping matters was Alias ending around the same time. She found herself in supporting roles and very few leading parts, and those that she did headline were not big enough hits to change her momentum. While she's had some well-received roles, she has yet to regain the former prominence she had.
• Uncredited Role: Jason Isaacs as De Marco in the first scenes. Also The Cameo.
• You Sound Familiar: In the French dub, Boris Rehlinger voiced both Bullseye in Daredevil and McCabe here.

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