So, it's really a Daredevil movie

I find it so odd that the producers said that they pitched this idea to Frank Miller at Will Eisner's funeral, and that he got all serious about it and said, "No one else touches this but me" as if he were a man on a mission, but then he helms a movie that seems like it does nothing as much as distance itself from the essence and personality of the source material. ("My city screams for me"... huh? And what's up with the blood-spatter logo?)

All that is disappointing, but not surprising. Even after movies like Nolan's Batman films and Raimi's Spiderman trilogy proved that you can make genuinely good Superhero films and be financially successful, a big studio can still be expected go for a Judge Dredd before it will open it's mind to the possibilities of a Watchmen.

But all that aside, what is so odd to me is that Miller, supposedly so enamored of making a movie out of Eisner's best recognized character, would just use that character's visual to cover up a Daredevil movie.

It's not that much of a stretch to see it. The Spirit as depicted in action is Daredevil to a T (especially as written by Frank Miller), fighting style and capabilities, and personality. But that is arbitrary enough, he also acts and fights like Rorschach and Batman and the Punisher and many others as well as Daredevil, but then Miller makes it unmistakeable by Making Sand Saref's origin the same as Elektra's.

And a further puzzlement: if Frank Miller had wanted to make a Daredevil movie like this, he could have just made this an actual Daredevil movie, and all the Daredevil and Frank Miller fans would have loved it.