Our First Look at the New Daredevil!
The biggest panel at New York Comic-Con this weekend was the debut of the Daredevil TV show coming to Netflix. Most of the cast was in attendance, and were I in New York right now, I would have been too. Suffice to say, it was apparently a pretty neat panel. You can check out Newsarama’s coverage of the panel here. It sounds like they’ve got a neat show planned.
The panel also debuted the first picture of actor Charlie Cox in ‘costume’!
It’s clearly an homage to the first live action Daredevil
Of course, that looks nothing like the real Daredevil costume. So I think it’s safe to say this is perhaps his prototype? Maybe when Matt Murdock first starts fighting crime, he’s goes for a simple black number, and then later he dons the full, badass-looking red costume. And yes, I said ‘badass’. You’re looking at a guy who enjoyed the first Daredevil movie. I really don’t get why people hated it. The Director’s Cut is even better!
Also during the panel, we found out that reporter Ben Urich and supervillain/mob boss The Owl will both be in the show! They will be played by Vondie Curtis-Hall and Bob Gunton respectively! Could this mean an appearance by Phil Urich?
Someone tell me if Marvel has the rights to Phil Urich!!!
I’m really looking forward to this show and the whole slate of Defenders shows on Netflix. I may even have to finally subscribe to Netflix to make sure I can see them all!
As if I needed more monthly bills…
And for anyone interested, check out my List of Six of the 6 Things I Want to See in the Netflix Defenders!
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Posted on October 11, 2014, in Marvel, Television and tagged Daredevil, Netflix, Netflix Defenders. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
Henchman-4-Hire 
Ah. This is truly excellent. They’ve really paid great homage to Frank Miller’s The Man Without Fear series. This is getting better as more news comes around, really eager for May to come now. Also hope that future seasons will show Matt breaking down to the point he almost becomes a murderer like how he played Russian roulette with a paralyzed Bullseye in the hospital only to reveal he had no bullets. Personally my favorite Daredevil story ever.
I need to read a lot more classic Daredevil. I haven’t read Miller, I haven’t read Bendis…
Aw man, you’re really missing out on A LOT. Miller’s run is honestly the best one of them all. Bendis was good but it felt inferior if you had read Miller’s works. But that’s me being biased I guess, haha.
I’ve missed out on too much! I’m not even reading Mark Waid’s Daredevil! I’ve just never been big into the character is all.
The moment I saw this I thought “how can he see? There aren’t any eye holes” and then I remembered and felt dumb.
But in seriousness, I’m excited for this show. I know agents of shield is a thing but there aren’t any superheroes, so to me this is Marvel’s first strike at TV, which is currently dominated by DC. Plus Rosario Dawson is in the show, and I’m in love with her so, yeah I’m definitely gonna watch this.
It’s OK, Joe, we’ve all been there.
That’s exactly what I thought when I saw it. Even better, it got me to realizing there’s something wrong with his normal costume. It has things for the eyes, which shouldn’t be necessary, but the ears are covered, which should cause a problem for him, unless he doesn’t actually use his ears to see.
To elaborate on what fatefulstranger said, this outfit is the one Matt first wore in “The Man Without Fear” origin story by Frank Miller, prior to putting on an actual costume.
Which, come to think of it, Miller may have been inspired to create based on that live-action get-up in “The Trial of the Incredible Hulk.” Don’t know if he’s ever said.
Oh! Darn it. I was really hoping it was an homage to The Trial of the Incredible Hulk.