Just another day’s wait before you could catch the Marvel’s latest live-action TV series of the comic, Daredevil on Netflix. Fans of the Marvel’s unsung superhero, Daredevil may have to wait a while longer before Matt Murdock played by Charlie Cox dons the red-devilish iconic suit as the show’s TV Spots show us the vigilante taking on the streets at night in a black-ninja styled costume.
The show will set stage in the city of Hell’s Kitchen and will follow the events post The Avengers (2012) (we’ve seen a couple of hints towards the Avengers in the teasers). Marvel’s grand notion that started back in 2008 with Iron Man, of an inter-connected Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has proven to be an extremely successful money-churning idea. Following those lines, Marvel re-acquired the rights to Daredevil from Fox last year and weaved out the web-television series, Daredevil which will supposedly be the torch-bearer spinning off a few other street-fighters from the MCU to the TV space via Netflix. These include Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, who will all team up as defenders, much like our Avengers on the big-screen. Amongst the euphoria and hype around the Avengers 2 – Age of Ultron releasing on the 24 of this month, Marvel’s small screen vigilante is also stirring up some crowd over the web with all its teasers released and the show’s release on 10 April.
Not being bound by the broadcasting limits, Marvel has spun this venture via the platform of Netflix which is a California based provider of subscription-based on-demand streaming media. Now the sad news for our Indian viewers is that Netflix isn’t available in India, in fact movies on Netflix can be viewed only in a handful of very lucky countries like the US, UK, Canada, Mexico, and a few others.
But cheer up! for we at AnimationXpress.com bring you all you wanted to know about Marvel’s latest superhero, Daredevil.
All you wanted to know about the ‘Man with no Fear’ – Daredevil
Daredevil is one of the many creations from the legendary comic artist-writer, Stan Lee along with Bill Everett and debuted in the Marvel Universe back in 1964. However it was in the 1980s with graphic artist Frank Miller’s illustration of the scarlet devil, that the Daredevil series gained extreme popularity. Miller’s darker tone to the comic is what the Netflix / Marvel’s Daredevil will adapt to, bringing on a gritty-edged comic right on-to live-action, something very unlike MCU’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. or Agent Carter.
Set in the neighborhood of New York (post The Avengers), Daredevil will chronicle the tale of a blinded Matt Murdock’s who lost his eye-sight at a young age due to an accident. However the same accident heightened his other four senses to a super-human level of accuracy and sensitivity, also giving him the power of radar sense. Trained since his young age to hone his senses and in extreme hand-to-hand combat (which we will see in the TV show), Matt Murdock excels himself as the extraordinary superhero, still not like our Norse God of Thunder or the popular Iron Man but as the underdog street-fighter hell-bent to save his city.
Perhaps that’s the reason why Marvel opted to branch Daredevil and the Defenders story onto the small screen and develop its own independent space in the wider connected Marvel cinematic universe. Much like every other superhero, Murdock’s city, Hell’s Kitchen is infested with crime to no limits and our hero takes up the mantle to clean-up his streets in his own lawful way. He leads a dual life where he plays the calm, intelligent law-abiding lawyer by the day, but pulps down the criminals at night as the city’s protector, Daredevil or the Man with no Fear.
Netflix has already announced 13-episodes of content for the first season and the web-television series will see Charlie Cox convincingly play Matt Murdock/ Daredevil. Also what’s equally interesting is to see the Daredevil’s archenemy, the KingPin aka Wilson Fisk played by the talented Vincent D’Onofrio who has shown his wicked eagerness to barge in the Avengers space too quite recently. The KingPin plays an undertone-yet sinister criminal boss of the organised crime in Hell’s Kitchen and the latest TV spot has given us the signal to his intent where he utters “….this city must die before it has reborn…”. Certainly his confrontation with the devil will surely be badass and most assumingly be in the finale of the season.
Also joining the cast of Daredevil will include the likes of Roasario Dawson playing Claire Temple, Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page and Elden Henson as Murdock’s law-sidekick Foggy Nelson.