The best thing I saw last week was short and sweet and got me really excited for the next entry into the Marvel TV universe through the Netflix original series Daredevil, with the release of the 1:31 teaser trailer. If you haven’t seen it yet here’s the official trailer from Marvel’s YouTube page:
The earlier teaser poster of Hell’s Kitchen glowing with flaming DD letter’s was great but gave us no clue as to what the show was going to be like. And even with the amazing cast I always worry that maybe the director or show runner’s ideas of the characters may be so off from mine that the show might not quite be what I think it could be. Luckily this trailer is fantastic and shows us a lot of nods to the aspects that make Daredevil a great Marvel character.
For those unaware after he created possibly the greatest Batman story ever with The Dark Knight Returns Mr. Frank Miller went back over to work for Marvel again and in 1993-1994 worked on a 5 issue miniseries with the John Romita Jr. doing penciling duties on Daredevil: The Man Without Fear. The book redefined who Matt Murdock was and who Daredevil was, solid storytelling and reimagining of the DD origin along with fantastic art from Romita Jr. If you want to know who Daredevil is, this is the book you should pick up. And if you don’t want to wait you can go get the collection on Comixology at the following link:
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In the trailer we see a scarred and battered Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, which we also saw in the Marvel film of the same name which I actually still like, fuck the haters. We see a glimpse of Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, The Kingpin. We see Daredevil in his all black starter costume that he wears in the Man Without Fear before donning the all red devil horned outfit comic fans are now more familiar with. And the tiny part that gave my goose bumps, we see a cloudy contact eyed Scott Glenn stepping into an elevator, the cloudy contacts being part of the character of Stick, Matt Murdock’s mentor and trainer.
The show looks well put together. The cast is high caliber and full and of talent. The trailer shows us that the show runners seem to have a firm grasp on the source material. And in the world of unrated Netflix shows we know that they can push the violence that we will see Matt fight against in Hell’s Kitchen. I’m excited. The whole first season will be released April 10th at 12:01 am and I along with quite a few others will be binge watching it that day. We’ll try not to spoil anything for those of you that don’t take that Friday off from work, cause I know I will be.
The Man Without Fear is coming. Are you ready?
