Marvel: Echo series trailer with the return of the Kingpin, violence and a first for Disney +!

This is a first for Marvel and Disney+. And a little gift at the beginning of the year, as highlighted in the press release accompanying the release of the Echo trailer: all five episodes of the Marvel Studios series, directed by Alaqua Fox, will be available to subscribers, therefore. , on January 10, 2024 on the platform.

The tone of the series also differs from previous Maison aux Idées series, from Wandavision to Loki or Secret Invasion. In the upper right corner of the trailer appears the mention of “Parental Controls”, announcing a return to the violent tone that made Daredevil or Punisher so successful. As well as the regular beating of an ice cream vendor in a New York alley by Onofrio’s Kingpin Vincent, who finds his white suit and his bloody fists (to the delight of fans, of course).

Between Maya Lopez’s character’s youth story with a gangster and the Hawkeye sequel, where the same Maya Lopez, now an adult, tries to escape her mentor and his criminal empire, Echo So we offer a decidedly dark treatment of this ambivalent anti-heroine, full of rage and anguish (“Who is the monster?” Wilson Fisk tells him) while immersing himself in Native American culture.

Maya Lopez stars as the first deaf character in the MCU Alaqua Fox, himself deaf (and also a leg amputee), of Menominee Nation and Mohican descent. The young woman, 26 years old, has to show superpowers in five episodes of the series, which are different from the comic books, where she is gifted with the talent of imitating opponents (like Taskmaster). No further details are available at this time.

in the interview varietyCo-director Sidney Freeland, on the other hand, insists on working with the Choctaw Nation, who are very involved in the series and the theme of the episodes. “It’s an examination of trauma, how we deal with it, how we deal with it, how it affects us, how we act on it, how it affects those around us.”he explains. “The fate of the world is not at stake, it is the fate of the family”.

In this family we will meet such familiar faces as Graham Greene (Dances with Wolves) or Tantu Cardinale, who is currently starring in Martin Scorsese’s The Killers of the Flower Moon, in which she portrays Lily Gladstone, the mother of the revelation. But Echo should also offer Marvel fans, from the MCU family, the return of a certain Charlie Cox, aka Daredevil, who should appear on the show before welcoming back Maya Lopez in her series reboot.