After starring as Matt Murdock in three seasons of Daredevil and spinoff The Defenders for Netflix, Charlie Cox made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Spider-Man: No Way Home last December.
Next up for the actor is She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Echo, with the latter expected to lead directly into 2024's Daredevil: Born Again. We'd bet on Marvel Studios taking the Man Without Fear down a suitably dark path in that Disney+ series, but it sounds like we'll get a very different take on the hero before then.
Talking to The Direct, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Head Writer Jessica Gao shed some light on how Daredevil will fit into this specific corner of the MCU.
"With every character cameo from the MCU, we take them from the environment that you know them from, which is a much more dramatic and action-oriented role, much more on the serious side, and we bring them into our world and they get to play in the tone of She-Hulk," she explains. "And they got to explore and we get to see a lighter side of that character."
Some fans will be horrified at the prospect of a lighter take on Daredevil, though we'd bet on them not having read the hero's earliest adventures by Stan Lee and Bill Everett or even Mark Waid and Chris Samnee's critically acclaimed run.
Gao would go on to share high praise for what Cox brought to the table. "Charlie is so wonderful. He’s so game to do whatever, and he’s such a wonderful actor, and a wonderful human being. What was so fun about bringing him and Daredevil into our world is that people have already seen a Daredevil who is very dramatic, little bit on the heavy side, very dark, brooding."
The fact that the actor is being given the opportunity to explore these different sides of Daredevil is incredibly exciting, and hopefully points to him having a future in the MCU beyond his upcoming series. He certainly deserves to be a major player in this world, and while Matt has met Peter Parker, a team-up with Spider-Man somewhere down the line is essential.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law premieres on Disney+ on Thursday, August 18.