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Wedgie wrote:I just checked my calender...

10th April is my day off work and I don't have the kids.

Will stock up on food, drinks, park the sofa right next to the TV and watch it all day.

Marvel’s Daredevil

April 10, Netflix

I know it’s still early in the year, but I’m calling it now: The most beautifully choreographed fight scenes of 2015 will be on Netflix, courtesy of Marvel’s Daredevil. We’ve seen the first four episodes, and this show is like no other comic book adaption on the small screen yet. The beauty of Netflix is the freedom it allows—Daredevil gets as dark as the source material requires. It’s so dark, it’s almost a better Batman show than Gotham, and that show actually has Batman in it. If nothing else, Daredevil will rule the comic book TV landscape for years to come.

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Earlier this week, the trailer for the highly anticipated new Netflix series, Daredevil, was released to wide acclaim. The story of a blind lawyer named Matt Murdock who fights crime has been told before (the infamous Ben Affleck movie is still considered a pox), but the new trailer proved that the new series will show a gritty, crime-infested stink hole of a setting. At the center of the new trailer is Vincent D’Onofrio, who plays The Kingpin, and this Kingpin thinks he’s on the right side of justice, keeping the streets safe.

D’Onofrio is promoting his new film, Broken Horses (the full interview will run closer to the film’s release), but here he talks about that new Daredevil trailer everyone likes so much and what we should expect from the new Marvel series, very excitedly, I should add; D’Onofrio is not at all hiding his enthusiasm for this series.

The new Daredevil trailer gave us a better understanding of your Kingpin. He seems like a guy who feels he’s doing the right thing for his city.

Yeah, you know, I tweeted out the other day that I watch these trailers and they make me so proud of all the work that we did. But, at the same time, there’s so much that you guys don’t know what you’re going to get. There’s so much in our show. And there’s so much they’re not giving away. I mean, it gets so intense and so emotional. It’s really quite something. It goes to places you would never think it goes because of what Jeph Loeb and Steven DeKnight wanted to do. It really does.

Does the intensity have anything to do with the fact it’s on Netflix? Does that allow more freedom than network television?

I think you’re right. I think it has something to do with that. You know, it’s been done in the movie, too. I mean, Robert Downey Jr.’s character has been explored pretty extensively and they’re trying to do the same thing with Captain America. And with all the new stuff coming up in the next five to seven years from now, it will get intricately emotional and much deeper than it is already. Our show, to your point, we have 13 episodes of content to take our time because of Netflix. Under the umbrella of Netflix, they’re very supportive, and it’s not like doing a TV series at all. It’s like doing a 13-hour film. So, I think that lends itself to being able to be much more specific and take your time in telling this long story. Now, having said that, they at the same time have to deliver a superhero aspect – a Marvel aspect to it – which, as we all know, is so dynamic and cool. So, that was the trick, to deliver the dynamic kind of Marvel superhero show and, at the same time, make it a serial that’s interesting and emotional and a real story. I mean, I could go on about it, but everybody can judge it for themselves – but, in my opinion, everybody was firing on all cylinders and just doing a great job.

Your own personal enthusiasm has been getting people excited. People can tell you’re really into this.

[Laughs] I am really into it! I mean, I haven’t had that much fun or interest in playing a role in awhile I guess. I am very enthusiastic about it.

You mentioned it being a 13-hour movie, the fact it’s on Netflix and delivered all at once, people are going to treat it as a 13-hour movie.

Yeah, that I find shocking, but I wish I had that kind of time. I’m a little jealous about that. But, you can do it.

In the trailer, there are references to Iron Man and Thor, so people in the Daredevil series are aware of what’s happening in the movies.

Yeah, we’re definitely all in the same universe. It’s definitely happening all around us, which I think is a very cool thing because it’s two very kind of different approaches, but they’re in the same world. I think that’s very cool.

And you’ve played Thor before in Adventures of Babysitting.

[Laughs] I did! I did for a few minutes, yeah.

Will The Kingpin show up in the other Netflix Marvel series, like Luke Cage?

I actually have no idea. Marvel doesn’t tell you about their plans, they just tell you how happy they are with you and give you all of this creative freedom and stuff. But, the one thing they keep secret is what their plans are. They tell you eventually, but not while it’s all still in the planning stage. They keep it to themselves. I actually have no idea.

Memento Mori wrote:All aboard the crudely edited hype train. Choo Choo.

Saturday at Raleigh, North Carolina’s Wizard World David Tennant did let one tiny secret about the currently filming AKA Jessica Jones slip. He alluded to how great the episodes are going to be, stating “you should read these scripts. They’re really good.” However, that is all fans got out of Tennant regarding the upcoming Marvel/Netflix venture. Tennant cited Marvel’s “snipers” with keeping his lips tightly sealed, noting that “they follow you everywhere you go as soon as you join.”

Of course like any fan would be, Tennant is over the moon about working for Marvel: “this is something I grew up with. It’s like my eight year old self doesn’t know what to do with himself,” he described. Growing up Tennant stated that he read comics like The Hulk. He went on to say, “I think comic books are a glorious wonderful art form and I think Marvel is one of the things that we’ll be looking back on in a hundred years’ time,” he proclaimed, even arguing that, “they’ll be one of the cornerstones of our cultural existence.”

He went on to discuss his recent visit to the Marvel offices: “I got shown around and clever people gave me comic books and told me how they got made and met people that spent their day doing that stuff. It was so exciting. ” Tennant sure seems like a true fan who wants to see the best of the comics that he got lost in as a child. “Marvel are now making the movies that as an eight year old [I] thought…why hasn’t anybody made those movies,” he confessed. “But I guess the world has caught up, technology has caught up which allows these things in part to be realized so beautifully,” he noted, ending with, “It comes down to stories, it comes down to the heart and that’s what makes the stories sing.”

AKA Jessica Jones is expected to sing its way into your house sometime in 2015. It is currently filming in New York City. David Tennant has been cast as the villainous Dr. Killgrave while Krysten Ritter stars as Jessica Jones, with Mike Colter joining the ensemble as Luke Cage. The show is set to follow Marvel’s Daredevil.

Memento Mori wrote:Killgrave is scum but I can't imagine they're going to go quite as dark as Alias.

Corazon de Leon wrote:

Memento Mori wrote:Killgrave is scum but I can't imagine they're going to go quite as dark as Alias.

I'd be very surprised if they go too far into the rape and psychological torture stuff, but I'd expect that if this goes on for a few seasons he'll have ample opportunity to get his hands dirty. Should make for some cracking TV.

BID0 wrote:

1>3>4>2 wrote:The Daredevil hype is starting to get to me guys. The previews so far have been glowing. I need it.

9 days.