Only a few days in the past, Marvel Studios revealed the primary footage its upcoming sequence Echo. Beforehand meant for 2023 earlier than getting knocked to 2024 with the intention to house issues out, the Hawkeye spinoff sees Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) return residence after having simply violently turned in her resignation as Kingpin’s enforcer and surrogate daughter. In comparison with different current MCU exhibits, a lot of Echo feels tangibly completely different, and Marvel’s going to deal with it in another way than its different exhibits—specifically within the banner it flies.
Beginning with Echo, Marvel may have a brand new “Marvel Highlight” for a few of its TV exhibits. In keeping with streaming head Brad Winderbaum, the Highlight exhibits will likely be “extra grounded, character-driven tales to the display, and within the case of Echo, specializing in street-level stakes over bigger MCU continuity.” The title hails from anthology comedian e-book sequence of the identical identify that ran from 1971-1981 and served because the launch level for characters like Johnny Blaze’s Ghost Rider, Spider-Woman, Pink Wolf, and Werewolf by Night. For individuals who discover themselves overwhelmed (or simply unable to care about) the multiverse shenanigans and massive cosmic threats on the horizon, Marvel seems to have heard you loud and clear: Winderbaum assured that audiences “[won’t] must have seen different Marvel sequence to know what’s occurring in Maya’s story.”
The precise point out of “street-level stakes” and “grounded, character-driven tales” will doubtless have many questioning what different exhibits might go beneath Highlight banner. Since Echo is notably Marvel’s first TV-MA present and the trailer options somebody getting explicitly shot within the head, this will likely even be a method for exhibits just like the retooled Daredevil: Born Again and a hypothetical Punisher series (to say nothing of different characters like Ghost Rider or Jessica Jones) to maintain the mature really feel of their unique iterations whereas nonetheless current within the MCU framework.
Echo will premiere on Disney+ and Hulu on January 10, 2024.
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