Charlie Cox made a surprise appearance as Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home, but he was clearly not a last-minute addition to the movie. Neither is the actor's return in this month's She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, as a storyboard artist who worked on the show has confirmed that they created the piece below over a year ago!
This suggests Marvel Studios has had longtime plans for the Man Without Fear, which is no great surprise now we know Cox is lined up to appear in Echo and Daredevil: Born Again.
"Well, since this brand new image of [Daredevil]] from the new [She-Hulk] show is literally all over the place...here's a very similar frame from the storyboards I did for the show," Jeremy Simser says. "Lemme tell ya...I've been sitting on this secret for over a year and I'm so happy I can finally let this one go."
"This show in general has been a real career highlight and getting to draw Daredevil (for money, no less!) makes it even highlighter!" the artist concluded.
We still don't know how much Marvel Studios plans to borrow from Marvel Television's Daredevil TV series, but the prevailing theory is that those shows took place on a similar world, somewhere else in the Multiverse. That obviously allows Kevin Feige and company to tell stories without being forced to adhere to past creative or casting decisions.
Hopefully, that leads to a comic accurate take on the hero which makes fans of both the source material and those Netflix adventures happy. If the hero's red and yellow costume in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is any indication, Marvel Studios has struck a perfect balance.
Take a closer look at the MCU's take on Daredevil below: