Daredevil: Breaking news on the Netflix series

Marvel now intends to invest in the small screen: After DC Comics’ Gotham, the follow-up series to Batman, blind hero Daredevil now makes his appearance, eleven years after the film starring Ben Affleck.

Marvel took Comic-Con, which is currently taking place in New York, as an opportunity to reveal a few pictures of the new Matt Murdock, played this time by Charlie Cox. This series will be darker, more mature and naturally tending to aim at an older audience, since the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364582/) series has encountered some problems with the viewing public.

This Daredevil series is only the first of a whole raft of projects from the well-known French video on-demand platform which appeared on 15th September. There are in fact other series already announced from the Marvel universe, such as Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Defenders.

Jeph Loeb, comic author and head of Marvel Television, also mentioned the possibility of a crossover involving the Netflix series and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

The film rights for the adventures of the Man without Fear by Frank Miller and John Romita Jnr (http://www.johnromitajr.com/)used to belong to 20th Century Fox, but they are now with Disney-Marvel, and the project seems to be wanting to go down the same road as the first season of True Detective, a series trying to be a 13-hour-long movie. This format is not used much at the moment, but it could mark a turning point for the kind of series where every episode finishes on the most tense scene imaginable, not always with total success.

Now the story: the Marvel Daredevil action series follows the adventures of Matt Murdock, blind since birth but endowed with fantastic powers. By day he is a lawyer battling against injustice, and at night he turns into a superhero combating crime in the modern-day neighbourhood of Hell’s Kitchen in New York.

As for the cast of the new Daredevil series, which will go out on Netflix starting in May 2015, we learn that the gangster, already seen in the Daredevil film (2003), is being played by Vincent D'Onofrio. He was also for many years detective Robert Goren in Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Rosario Dawson (Sin City 2) will also be in the cast of this new Netflix series. She will be portraying Claire Tempel, ’a young woman trying to heal the wounds of Hell’s Kitchen, who sees Matt Murdock coming into her life and changing her path and the war on injustice forever’.

Scott Glenn (Kevin Garvey Senior), Justin Theroux’ fictional father in The Leftovers, is Stick, Matt’s mentor.

Jeph Loeb (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Smallville), head of Marvel Television, commented: "Stick is one of the most important figures in Matt Murdock’s life, and Scott Glenn embodies all the qualities of someone so essential to the hero’s mission. Few actors are able to inject so much authenticity, seriousness and charisma into this character who accompanies Matt on his way to becoming the superhero we call Daredevil."

The cast also features Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page), Elden Henson (Foggy Nelson), Ayelet Zurer (Vanessa Marianna), Toby Leonard Moore (Wesley), Vondie Curtis-Hall (Ben Urich) and Bob Gunton.

Daredevil gaming machines

The Daredevil series was devised by Steven S. DeKnight, and it also features online games like the LEGO Marvel superheroes (http://www.mansioncasino.com/slots/) one back in 2013, as well as an online gaming machine also called Daredevil (a game where fearless players fight crime and get to meet various Marvel universe characters such as Elektra, Kingpin etc.).

It’s a richly varied living world with music of heroic and tragic proportions. The game has special functions, such as the extra plays which allow you to play several games with 20 reels and 5 pay- lines without having to play. A game that will win over passionate players and enable them to dive into the world of comics in the company of superheroes…