After The Kingpin made his MCU debut/return in Hawkeye, Echo revealed that Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk had survived being gunned down by Maya Lopez.
The villain failed to bring her in line and later returned to New York City with his sights set on becoming New York City's Mayor. His story will continue in Daredevil: Born Again and, beyond the upcoming Disney+ series, rumours continue to persist that the Kingpin of Crime will clash with Spider-Man in the web-slinger's next movie.
Peter Parker teaming up with the Man Without Fear (and Ant-Man if recent rumours are to be believed) to battle Fisk in Spider-Man 4 sounds almost too good to be true. It would, however, make for one heckuva movie.
Talking to ComicBook.com, D'Onofrio addressed the rumours head-on but chose his words carefully.
"I think if the powers that be want that to happen then it will happen, you know? I think there certainly hasn't been any kind of talk that it's not gonna happen," the actor revealed. "I mean, to me that's the direction that we should go in...but who knows? You know, you get these calls and they're like, 'Oh we're doing this now.' I'm like, 'Oh, okay.' You know, it's like that."
It does seem like the logical next step for The Kingpin and based on how D'Onofrio is talking here, there's no indication his character's story will reach a definitive conclusion in Daredevil follow-up, Daredevil: Born Again.
As for whether we might see Fisk show up in the next Avengers movies, he added: "I don't see why he has to just be in one situation. Part of the storytelling in Echo is that his reach has gotten further. He's gone from just controlling Hell's Kitchen and certain stuff coming in from the ports of Manhattan, and the veins of his business are running wider across the country and I think eventually across the world."
"So I think he is sort of in every place. I think that that's the way I see it. I see it as Vanessa and him being quite powerful," D'Onofrio continued. "And so I think I really do mean everywhere. I love the fact that [Marvel Studios executive Brad Winderbaum compared Kingpin to Thanos], by the way, because I didn't know that he said that until you told me and that means that there's lots of jobs to come. That's a good thing."
In Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic's Secret Wars comic book, The Kingpin assembled his fellow villains to watch the destruction of the Marvel Universe in the Bar With No Name. After all, how better to watch all those pesky superheroes meet their end?
Neither Daredevil: Born Again nor Spider-Man 4 have confirmed release dates.