Vincent D'Onofrio Talks Daredevil, Kingpin, - How It All Ties Together Within The MCU
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- August 26, 2014
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)
One of the best casting choices I’ve seen for a television series was Marvel and Netflix casting Vincent D'Onofrio as the Kingpin for the Daredevil TV series — a more perfect casting I couldn’t have asked for.
Screen Crush had a chance to sit down with D'Onofrio and ask him a few questions about the upcoming series. He had lots of great things to say about Marvel Studios and their dedication to working with the actors to bring characters to life.
They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters, even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else. Robert Downey [Jr.] is the perfect example of that. Who knew that Iron Man was going to be who Robert made him? And Jon Favreau. I would have never guessed Iron Man was going to be that kind of Tony Stark. Not in a million years, and, you know, that's because of Jon and especially Robert. So, everybody is following suit with that. Personally, I felt Downey kind of led the way in that, and he's kind of said to the studios and to the public, "It can work. These Marvel things can work."
As for how he intends to play the character, however, and how it will differ, he’s a bit more cagey.
I think -- it's not just me, by the way, it's the writer. It's Steven DeKnight, it's Jeph Loeb at Marvel, it's the scripts, and it's me. I think it's gonna be the ... I hope I should say -- I hope it's gonna be the new way to look at Wilson Fisk. I think that there will be no other Wilson Fisk, but this one after we're all done with it. That's what we're hoping for.
No Marvel interview would be complete without asking how the series will integrate with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We know that the plan is to produce a Daredevil series, followed by Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist series, which will culminate in The Defenders series. D'Onofrio does give a bit more details about a post Defenders plans:
Well, I think they have some kind of plan. I'm not really allowed to discuss what the plan is, but they have a plan. I think the beginning of the plan is [the] series stuff with Netflix, and then they have a bigger plan to branch out, but I wouldn't be able to tell you specifically what that is.
What could that possibly mean? Will the Defenders show up on the big screen? Is an Avengers/Defenders film possibly in the cards? I guess we’ll find out sooner or later, but it’s pretty tantalizing!
Daredevil is set to premiere sometime in May 2015.
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