This weekend saw the New York Comic-Con hit the Big Apple and Marvel was, naturally, there in force. There were peeks at upcoming projects aplenty, but few drew as much interest as the first official glimpse of Charlie Cox and co. in the company’s Daredevil series, set to hit Netflix next year.
The imagery in this new take on the vigilante hero is clearly inspired by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.’s Daredevil: Man Without Fear run, with a darker, less leathery costume (at least to begin with) and a chance to go to creepier places than the movie ever could.
Cox, of course, is playing lawyer Matt Murdock, blinded as a young man in an accident that also heightened his other senses and gave him an echolocation-style way of “seeing” the world through sound.
We already know that Deborah Ann Woll is playing Karen Page, with Elden Henson as Matt’s pal and law practice partner Foggy Nelson. Vincent D’Onofrio is Wilson Fisk, AKA Big Bad The Kingpin, and we finally learned who Rosario Dawson will be embodying: she’s Claire Temple, described by producer Jeph Loeb as “a nurse who works at night” winking that there’s a chance she’ll become the series’ version of the comics’ character Night Nurse, more traditionally associated with Luke Cage. Given that he’s the focus of one of the other Marvel/Netflix series, we predict she’ll also show up there.
There were also new casting announcements, including Man Of Steel’s Ayelet Zurer as art gallery owner Vanessa Marianna, who will become involved with Fisk; Bob Gunton as Leland Owlsley (destined to be the villainous Owl); Tobey Leonard Moore as Wesley, Fisk’s assistant and Vondie Curtis Hall as journalist Ben Urich
“What I love about this show is the moral grey area that’s inherent to Daredevil,” showrunner Steven S. DeKnight said at the panel. “He’s one day away from becoming Frank Castle instead of Matt Murdock.”
As for Cox, he summed up the main character thusly: “We’re meeting a man who believes in law and justice, and at night he is taking law into his own hands. And all the time in-between is spent battling with that concept.”