You might argue that Mark Steven Johnson’s take on Marvel’s own ‘The Man Without Fear’ in 2003 didn’t really live up to the expectations many. Point in fact, there’s obviously plenty of ire to go around considering there was never a sequel. Alas, we now have executive producer and showrunner Steven DeKnight now handling things for Netflix’s own offering for the classic Marvel character, Daredevil with lead actor Charlie Cox starring opposite Vincent D’Onofrio‘s attribution to the villainous Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. Kingpin, and the first official trailer has arrived with a series that promises to deliver something far different and much more hard-hitting, down-to-earth, and just a bit more gritty and gruesome than what’s been offered before. Blinded as a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) fights against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the Super Hero “Daredevil” in modern day Hell’s Kitchen, New York City. Produced by Marvel Television and ABC Studios, with executive producers Steven S. DeKnight (Spartacus), Jeph Loeb (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Drew Goddard (Cabin In The Woods), the series also stars Rosario Dawson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson.
You may notice the black costume at first, but that’s only part of the canon of the comic as we may eventually see Cox in something more tactical and red in popularity. Other than that, this trailer offers the goods so I suspect there won’t be much to complain about here, and if the rest of the slate between now and the productions leading up to The Defenders looks like this, I’m down for it.
