If we’re being honest, and this might be a pretty controversial opinion, we kind of think that Marvel TV peaked with the first season of Daredevil back in 2014 (perhaps that and season one of Jessica Jones were the two best things to come out of the Netflix era). We could list any number of reasons, including our boy Vincent D’Onofro as the Kingpin, or the amazing fight sequences, or the solid writing, but the most relevant to the subject at hand would be the casting of Charlie Cox as The Man Without Fear. Cox was a little-known actor outside of his work on Boardwalk Empire, and the dude came in and made the role his own. When the Netflix deal went under a few years back, it was assumed by a whole lot of fans that those characters were either going to be recast or repurposed by Marvel Studios for their own homegrown TV products, but fans, who fell in love with Cox’s Matt Murdock, launched a seemingly-hopeless campaign to preserve this iteration of the character in the mainline universe.
Well, Marvel nerds, rejoice, for you may have won your victory on this otherwise cloudy Monday. Based on some comments made by MCU uber-producer Kevin Feige during a Spider-Man: No Way Home junket interview with CinemaBlend, it seems like we might be seeing Daredevil — with Cox behind the eyeless cowl — sooner rather than later.
Here’s what Feige told CinemaBlend:
“If you were to see Daredevil in upcoming things, Charlie Cox, yes, would be the actor playing Daredevil. Where we see that, how we see that, when we see that, remains to be seen.”
These kinds of cagey comments are typical from Feige but based on his willingness to even broach the subject, especially given how Marvel’s practically refused to comment on anything relating to Netflix in the last few years, should indicate that something involving Daredevil is in the works. Maybe not a solo series — though, as IGN points out, he could show up in the She-Hulk series over at Disney+, as the characters inhabit the same legal sphere within the Marvel world — but it seems that something is afoot. If we were betting people, we’d imagine that you won’t have to wait too long to see this confirmed on a screen near you, no matter was Cox himself says, given that a particular superhero within the MCU will probably need some legal representation after the events of their last adventure. No spoilers, just idle speculation.
Spider-Man: No Way Home hits theaters on December 18. Good luck getting those tickets and even better luck fighting off the dude next to you in the theater lobby when you do try to get them. That’s not a totally foreign idea in this day and age, as these two guys in this Reddit video demonstrated for us all a few days ago. Remember, duck and weave! Don’t forget to block! Don’t telegraph your punches!