New Marvel Series Daredevil Arrives on Netflix

The return of the man without fear

by Steve Withers
It's hard to remember now but there was a time when TV and film adaptations of Marvel properties were a joke.
That all changed with Bryan Singer's X-Men in 2000, although Blade had shown early signs of improvement two years before. After the success of X-Men for Fox and Spider-man for Sony, Marvel took the brave decision to begin financing their own films. They put together an ambitious plan to create a single cinematic universe using the characters to which they had the rights, creating a series of films that started with Iron Man and led to The Avengers. It was an incredibly successful strategy, so successful in fact that Disney ended up buying Marvel and the films they produced have become cash cows for the studio.

However Marvel weren't just content to dominate our cinemas and through the ABC network, which is also owned by Disney, they produced the Agents of Shield TV series, which runs parallel to the movies and often interacts with them. They've also just finished their latest TV series Agent Carter, although for some inexplicable reason no UK broadcaster has picked it up. Their latest strategy is to create a number of new TV series in conjunction with streaming service provider Netflix. These will use less familiar Marvel characters and be grittier in tone but will exist in the same cinematic universe, again building to another heroic team up.

The first series in this ambitious plan is Daredevil, and you'll be able to watch all thirteen episodes on Netflix from Friday the 10th of April. The series will also be available in Ultra HD 4K for those with UHD displays and fast enough broadband connections. There's already been an unsuccessful attempt to adapt Daredevil as a film with Ben Affleck in the part but this new version will be more faithful to the comic incarnation. The series is set in New York's Hell's Kitchen, which is being redeveloped after the destruction caused by the Chitauri invasion in The Avengers.

The series was developed by Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods) and Steven DeKnight (Spartacus) and stars British actor Charlie Cox (Boardwalk Empire) as Matt Murdock/Daredevil with Vincent D'Onofrio as main villain Wilson Fisk/Kingpin. However Daredevil is just the start and later this year we'll get Jessica Jones, followed by Luke Cage and Iron Fist next year before they all team-up in The Defenders mini-series, which should arrive in 2017.
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