ECHO "This Is Choctaw" Featurette Spotlights Maya Lopez's Native American Heritage

ECHO "This Is Choctaw" Featurette Spotlights Maya Lopez's Native American Heritage

Marvel Studios has released a new featurette for Echo, and it spotlights quite a bit of new footage from the upcoming Disney+ Hawkeye spin-off series...

By MarkCassidy - Jan 04, 2024 11:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Echo

Echo is set to premiere on Disney+ next week, and Marvel Studios has released a new "This is Choctaw" featurette for the Hawkeye spin-off series which focuses on Maya Lopez - and actress Alaqua Cox's - Native American heritage.

The teaser takes us behind-the-scenes to explore how working closely with Choctaw Nation helped bring Echo to life, and includes some new footage of Maya interacting with supporting characters such as Graham Greene's Skully and Tantoo Cardinal's Chula, as well as a brief glimpse of an action sequence with Maya on top of a speeding train.

The video also features interviews with Cox and director Sydney Freeland.

Check it out in the player below, and let us know if you plan on watching Echo in the comments section.

Echo will be the first project under a new banner known as Marvel Spotlight, which takes its name from an anthology comic book series that debuted back in 1971 and was the origin of beloved Marvel characters like Ghost Rider and Spider-Woman.

“Marvel Spotlight gives us a platform to bring more grounded, character-driven stories to the screen, and in the case of Echo, focusing on street-level stakes over larger MCU continuity," said Head of Streaming Brad Winderbaum. "Just like comics fans didn’t need to read Avengers or Fantastic Four to enjoy a Ghost Rider Spotlight comic, our audience doesn’t need to have seen other Marvel series to understand what’s happening in Maya’s story.”

"Marvel Studios presents Echo in which Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) struggles to reconnect with her Native American roots while balancing aspirations tied to a life of crime as successor to the brutal legacy of Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) aka Kingpin," reads the most recent synopsis. "In the first episode, we are introduced to Maya Lopez and her struggles."

In addition to Cox, D'Onofrio and Cox (Charlie), the show will also star Chaske Spencer as Henry, Tantoo Cardinal as Chula, Graham Greene as Skully, Cody Lightning as Cousin Biscuits, Devery Jacobs as Bonnie, and Zahn McClarnon as William Lopez.

The origin story of Echo revisits Maya Lopez (Cox), whose ruthless behaviour in New York City catches up with her in her hometown. She must face her past, reconnect with her Native American roots and embrace the meaning of family and community if she ever hopes to move forward.

All five episodes of Echo will be available to stream on Disney+ from January 9.

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AvalonX
AvalonX - 1/4/2024, 11:35 AM
I would have liked to have seen them go with the Echo tries to kill Daredevil and is a love interest for him. This would have made sense since we just saw Electra in the DD series.

I don't know what this show is but it's not Echo from the comics, thats for sure.
Tonic24k
Tonic24k - 1/4/2024, 11:41 AM
@AvalonX - Nothing from the comics is a carbon copy to live action. That's why they're called adaptations.
AvalonX
AvalonX - 1/4/2024, 12:24 PM
@Tonic24k - Yeah thanks, I dont need it explained to me. Im saying I would have preferred thats where they went because that Echo (or even the Ronen one) is interesting.
Fogs
Fogs - 1/4/2024, 11:41 AM
This might be good, who knows.

Will wait for word of mouth as usual.
Chaos200
Chaos200 - 1/4/2024, 11:44 AM
Man Critical Drinker's rumours wasn't wrong about her getting fat.
mountainman
mountainman - 1/4/2024, 11:48 AM
@Chaos200 - People change weight over time, but reshoots can make it problematic if it’s a stark change during a single production. Think Ben Affleck in Justice League. It’s weird to see someone change appearance drastically from scene to scene. I can just look at her picture at the top of the article vs the still shot in the trailer lower in the article and she looks drastically different.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 1/4/2024, 11:50 AM
@Chaos200 - she was pregnant and just had a kid. They're assholes.
Chaos200
Chaos200 - 1/4/2024, 11:57 AM
@GhostDog - Who's they? Drinker said there was reports she was insecure about her weight gain and that it was causing problems on set and making reshoots awkward because of the stark difference between shots. I don't think he made fun of the girl for it, just reporting the reshoot issues.
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/4/2024, 11:46 AM
Did I happen to see a character that is spiderman-like somewhere in a trailer or footage?
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 1/4/2024, 12:27 PM
@lazlodaytona - Maybe Daredevil?
lazlodaytona
lazlodaytona - 1/4/2024, 2:24 PM
@ClintThaHamster - I must be high
DocSpock
DocSpock - 1/4/2024, 11:48 AM

I am jazzed for this. Please be good.

Side note: I have worked a lot with the Choctaw & have several friends among them. They call themselves Indians. If some dork tells them they are now supposed to be called native Americans, they just roll their eyes & say, "white people".

mountainman
mountainman - 1/4/2024, 11:50 AM
@DocSpock - I used to live in New Mexico and knew a lot of Navajos and people from other tribes. They hated terms like Native American and other PC garbage. They were some of the least PC people I ever met. Funny thing is the Washington Redskins were incredibly popular amongst that community and they hated the team name change. It’s always uppity white people getting offended about that stuff rather that the communities they are supposedly protecting.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 1/4/2024, 11:55 AM
@mountainman -

You are soooo right. Damn goofy liberals have to label & relabel everyone.

Try coming to Texas and telling a Mexican person they are a latinX.

mountainman
mountainman - 1/4/2024, 12:01 PM
@DocSpock - I know a very large number of Latino people having grown up in southern California and then lived in New Mexico. Absolutely 100% of them (I’ve literally directly asked at least 40 people about this) absolutely hate that term and mock it every chance they get.

It reminds me of the folks opposed to voter ID because they think that Black people are too stupid to get an ID card to vote. Then you see interviews in those communities where every person interviewed thinks that idea is stupid.

Nobody is more racist that upper class coastal white liberals.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 1/4/2024, 4:48 PM
@mountainman - Minor copy-edit: "It’s always uppity white liberals ...."

GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 1/4/2024, 4:50 PM
@mountainman - "Nobody is more racist that upper class coastal white liberals." 100%. Especially in the northeast.
mountainman
mountainman - 1/4/2024, 4:55 PM
@GeneralZod - San Fran - Washington as well. Southern California white liberals are more chill, even though their politics are still far left. But you’re right, it’s mainly the New York / DC contingent that is the biggest problem.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 1/4/2024, 5:12 PM
@mountainman - The Redski -- ahem, the Commanders used to have the most badass NFL emblem. The vast majority (90%, according to a Washington Post poll) had no issue with it. Then came the white coastal, PC-pushing liberal to burn it to the ground. The end.

mountainman
mountainman - 1/4/2024, 5:16 PM
@GeneralZod - It reminds me of all the brand mascot cancelation that happened years back. We lost Uncle Ben on the rice labels, Aunt Jemimah on her products, and the girl on the Land O Lakes Butter. We still have Quaker Oats guy. Essentially these historic and famous minority mascots are erased now. How does that help minority groups? Was racism ended?
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 1/4/2024, 9:46 PM
@mountainman - I lived in DC and NY. They're brutal there -- but in a very insidious way. You're right that SoCal they're chill, and I respect them despite our different viewpoints. SF is not good but not as bad as DC + NY.
mountainman
mountainman - 1/4/2024, 9:53 PM
@GeneralZod - At least West Coast liberalism is mostly based on empathy. The one exception might be Portland. The city where the 90’s never died used to be a pretty cool spot but it’s gone way off the deep end and is incredibly toxic now.

I’ve always lived in the Western US. Used to like to visit the big north east cities, but I really have zero desire any more.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 1/4/2024, 9:58 PM
@mountainman - Precisely. With the cancellation of Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemimah and Land-O-Lakes, a black man, a black woman and an Indian women who occupied American store shelves for over half a century were erased. In the case of Aunt Jemimah, she was replaced with ... Pearl (as in Pearl White) Milling Company. You cannot make this shit up.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 1/5/2024, 12:10 AM
@mountainman - Ditto.
noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 1/4/2024, 11:55 AM
I am very excited to see this adaptation having read I think all of her appearances in Daredevil at this point. They’ve made changes to the backstory with her relationship to Kingpin but honestly I think some of them refine the original idea. In the comics she has an art interest that I could be wrong but doesn’t seem present here. The two biggest points of change are in the comics she didn’t know Fisk was a criminal where in this version she does and is an active part in his organization. I think though that this honestly helps to make Fisk seem even more of a manipulator and gives her some more depth
bl0odwerk
bl0odwerk - 1/4/2024, 12:26 PM
You can't even pay these bitches to stay in shape.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 1/4/2024, 12:30 PM
@bl0odwerk - In shape? Based on the trailer, she seems more than capable of executing both the role and the action sequences.
Elle79
Elle79 - 1/4/2024, 2:36 PM
@bl0odwerk - it is pretty embarrassing, nothwtistanding Clint's incessant and cringey virtue-signaling
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