New Motion Poster Reveals Daredevil’s Red Costume

A day before the series drops in its entirety on Netflix, the platform has finally given us our first look at Daredevil's signature red costume. This nifty motion poster takes us through the three stages of Matt Murdock, from sober law office-appropriate threads, to interim place-holder crime-busting training gear, to the fully-fledged scarlet hornhead. You might consider it a spoiler, so don't press play if you don't want to see it quite yet...

All publicity so far had shown the big DD in the black outfit familiar to readers of Frank Miller's graphic novel The Man Without Fear. The red, we were lead to believe, would constitute an end-of-season reveal, just as it only appears in the final pages of Miller's origin story. This surprise early unveiling is probably a sensible and understandable branding move on Netflix's part, but it does also feel slightly like a loss of nerve.

Whatever, what we seem to have - and we're still not being shown it from head to toe - is a harder and more moulded looking armoured affair than Ben Affleck's leather version from 2003 (or indeed Rex Smith's velvety ensemble from The Trial Of The Incredible Hulk). Does it look practical for Hell's Kitchen rooftop billy-club acrobatics? Where's his badass logo? Give us your thoughts.

Daredevil, the first of an interconnected series of Netflix shows that will also include Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Luke Cage and team-up The Defenders, stars Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Rosario Dawson, Ayelet Zurer, Bob Gunton and Scott Glenn. Steven S. DeKnight is the showrunner, and all ten episodes, as we said, debut on Netflix from tomorrow.