Elektra (2005 film)

Elektra
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Directed by	Rob Bowman
Produced by	Avi Arad Gary Foster Arnon Milchan
Written by	Raven Metzner Zak Penn Stuart Zicherman
Based on	Elektra by Frank Miller
Starring	Jennifer Garner Goran Visnjic Will Yun Lee Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Terence Stamp
Music by	Christophe Beck
Cinematography	Bill Roe
Edited by	Kevin Stitt
Production companies	Marvel Enterprises Regency Enterprises New Regency Productions Horseshoe Bay Productions
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	January 14, 2005 (2005-01-14)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Canada United States
Language	English Japanese
Budget	$43 million
Box office	$56.7 million

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Elektra is a 2005 Canadian-American superhero film directed by Rob Bowman. It is a spin-off from the 2003 film Daredevil, starring the Marvel Comics character Elektra Natchios (portrayed by Jennifer Garner). The story follows Elektra, an assassin who must protect a man and his prodigy daughter from another assassin who was hired by The Hand.

For the screenplay, Raven Metzner, Zak Penn, and Stuart Zicherman received "written by" credit. Mark Steven Johnson received credit for "motion picture characters" and Frank Miller for "comic book characters." Filming started around May 2004 in Vancouver.

The film was released on January 14, 2005. Upon its release, Elektra was a commercial and critical failure, grossing $56 million against a production budget of $43 million. It received generally negative reviews from critics, who found the script and storyline lacking, but many praised Garner's acting as well as the action sequences.

After being killed in Daredevil, Elektra Natchios is revived by a blind martial arts master called Stick. She is brought to his training compound to learn Kimagure, an ancient martial arts discipline that provides its practitioners with precognition as well as the ability to resurrect the dead. Elektra soon is expelled because of her inability to let go of her rage and fear from seeing her mother's killer as a child. She leaves and uses her training to become a contract killer.

Years later, Elektra infiltrates a heavily guarded area and succeeds in slaying her target DeMarco. Elektra's agent McCabe receives an unusually large offer from an anonymous client wishing to hire Elektra's services. The only stipulation; she must spend a few days in a rented home on the island where the assassination is to be performed before the names of the targets are revealed. During the wait, Elektra catches a girl named Abby trying to swipe her mother's necklace. She sends her away, and later meets and befriends her father, Mark Miller. Abby later invites Elektra to dinner on Mark's behalf. Elektra develops a romantic interest in Mark, but soon learns he and Abby are the targets she has been hired to kill. Elektra spares them and leaves, but later returns in time to protect them from assassins sent by The Hand, a crime syndicate of ninja mercenaries.