The first trailer for the upcoming
Marvel's Daredevil series set to air exclusively on Netflix was released just a
couple of hours ago and to fill us in on what we saw is the series showrunner
Steven S. DeKnight, who spoke to IGN about Matt Murdock's costume, religion,
the Kingpin, Stick, and the brutality of the series.
About Matt's
religion and how it clashes with his off-hours work DeKnight says, "it’s
vital to the character. Matt Murdock is, I think, one of the most, if not the most,
religious characters in the Marvel Universe, with the heroes. His Catholicism
is so much part of his being and part of his conflict, I think it would be
incredibly disingenuous to attempt to do the show where that’s not a big part
of it."
The showrunner then spoke about the
makeshift costume Matt will be donning when we first meet him.
"Really, the reason we start
with this version -- which is hugely influenced by Man Without Fear -- is for
two reasons. One, this really is the beginning, the formation of Matt Murdock a
Daredevil. On the flip side, it’s the formation of Wilson Fisk becoming
Kingpin. It’s very much a parallel arc. We didn’t want to start him in the
[red] suit. We wanted the early days of him figuring out what he was doing and
making mistakes and getting the crap beat out of him on a regular basis. His
suit, which we call his vigilante outfit, in the beginning - we tried
practically everything, design-wise. We experimented with a lot of different
head pieces. One version was a ski mask with the eyes sewn shut. We tried
everything until we found something that just felt right. And also, really
going back to that Man Without Fear, I can’t say where his costume ends up,
where it goes, but there is definitely an evolution."
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Vincent D'Onofrio has been tasked
with bringing Marvel baddie Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin to life, literally.
According to DeKnight both Daredevil and Kingpin will grow parallel to each
other.
"When we first meet him, he's a
very mysterious figure, as you can gather from the teaser. Absolutely, a
lynchpin of Season 1. I think there's no better way to start of the series than
a formative Matt Murdock coming up against a formative Wilson Fisk. We were so
incredibly lucky to get Vincent D’Onofrio, who is not only a phenomenal actor
and an amazing person to be around, so very generous as an actor and performer,
but I don’t know if there’s another human being on the planet that embodies Wilson
Fisk, physically, like in the comics. I think, honestly, he is as close as
you’re going to get, unless you’re doing an animated series. We just marveled.
We were like holy s**t, it is Wilson Fisk come to life! Even in the teaser,
when you just see him from behind, standing in front of that painting, you just
get the feeling that it’s Wilson Fisk, the future Kingpin. Fisk plays a crucial
role in Season 1, as the adversary of Matt Murdock. Also, on the flip side,
Matt Murdock is the fly in Fisk’s ointment. What I love about this show is we’re
able to explore some gray areas of who is really good, who is really bad, and
which person is really better for the city in the long run. It's a question we
really examine."
In the comics Stick, here played by
Scott Glenn, is a big and formative part of both Daredevil and Elektra pasts.
He trained them both, and helped Matt control and develop his other senses,
which he uses when fighting crime.
"We spent weeks and weeks
talking about Stick and who do we get and I had been saying coming into the
show, I was obsessed with getting Sonny Chiba and mixing it up but that didn’t
quite work out. We had mentioned in the [writers] room Scott Glenn and I don’t
know why it fell by the wayside but I was watching The Leftovers and I saw him and
I believe he is in his earlier 70’s and in better shape than me or anybody I
know. So I suggested everybody take a look at The Leftovers and his performance
and everybody was on board. We reached out to his people and were delighted.
First, I sent an email to my old buddy Damon Lindelof. I just wanted to make
sure he was not shooting [The Leftovers]. I didn’t want to step on his toes and
once that was cleared up, we reached out and he was very interested. He read
the script and really liked it and said, "Yeah, I’d love to do it." I
can tell you, one of the highlights of my career was getting on the phone with
Scott Glenn, because he’s exactly how you would imagine him. He’s just a
fantastic guy. He’s so great to work with. His portrayal of Stick... He’s perfect
in that role."
When it comes to violence, DeKnight's
shows aren't shy about it, just look at Spartacus and how gratuitous it
sometime is. Here however he has to take a different approach.
"I always loved in the comics
that also this is a guy that has heightened sense but no super powers. This is
a guy who’s pushing himself to the limit who can get hurt and can get killed...
I’m hugely influenced by the Frank Miller runs that I grew up with, where he
was constantly getting the crap kicked out of him. Again, obviously there’s a
bit of a heightened sense of reality that he can do what he can do and not end
up in the hospital every other day. But we also touch upon why that is. Really,
it’s like Batman without the money. He is just determined. It’s sheer force of
will that keeps him going when a normal man would fall over and a lot of that I
think, also in the Matt Murdock mythos, comes from his father and being a boxer
and that kind of thing, where you just don’t quit."
What do you think?
Source - IGN
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