Daredevil (Netflix series)

Daredevil is a Netflix series that is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Steven S. DeKnight acted as showrunner for the first season which aired on April 10, 2015, replacing Drew Goddard. A second season is set to be released in 2016 with Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez taking over as showrunners.

Overview
"Marvel's Daredevil" is a live action series that follows the journey of attorney Matt Murdock, who in a tragic accident was blinded as a boy but imbued with extraordinary senses. Murdock sets up practice in his old neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, New York where he now fights against injustice as a respected lawyer by day and masked vigilante/superhero at night.

Main Cast

 * Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil
 * Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin
 * Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page
 * Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson
 * Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple
 * Bob Gunton as Leland Owlsley
 * Vondie Curtis-Hall as Ben Urich
 * Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna
 * Toby Leonard Moore as James Wesley

Recurring Cast

 * John Patrick Hayden as Battlin' Jack Murdock
 * Peter Shinkoda as Nobu
 * Wai Ching Ho as Madame Gao
 * Nikolai Nikolaeff as Vladimir Ranskahov
 * Gideon Emery as Anatoly Ranskahov
 * Matt Gerald as Melvin Potter
 * Rob Morgan as Turk Barrett
 * Royce Johnson as Brett Mahoney
 * Daryl Edwards as Carl Hoffman
 * Chris Tardio as Detective Blake
 * Adriane Lenox as Doris Urich
 * Peter McRobbie as Father Lantom
 * Judith Delgado as Elena Cardenas
 * Amy Rutberg as Marci Stahl
 * Susan Varon as Josie

Special Guests

 * Scott Glenn as Stick
 * Peter Gerety as Samuel Silke
 * Domenick Lombardozzi as Bill Fisk
 * Kevin Nagle as Roscoe Sweeney

Main Cast

 * Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil
 * Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson
 * Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page
 * Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple
 * Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/The Punisher

Recurring Cast

 * Elodie Yung as Elektra Natchios
 * Matt Gerald as Melvin Potter/Gladiator

Special Guests
To be added

Season 1

 * "Into the Ring"
 * "Cut Man"
 * "Rabbit in a Snow Storm"
 * "In the Blood"
 * "World on Fire"
 * "Condemned"
 * "Stick"
 * "Shadows in the Glass"
 * "Speak of the Devil"
 * "Nelson v. Murdock"
 * "The Path of the Righteous"
 * "The Ones We Leave Behind"
 * "Daredevil"

Season 2

 * "TBA"

Production
The first two episodes were written by Drew Goddard, who was originally the showrunner before his commitment to The Sinister Six meant that he was replaced by Steven S. DeKnight. Goddard remains on the show as Executive Producer and writer of the first two episodes.

Trivia

 * This series takes place within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
 * Daredevil is the first of many Netflix series, that will lead up to an eventual crossover in The Defenders.
 * DeKnight, the showrunner, was heavily influnenced by Mark Miller's run of The Man Without Fearˆ comic run while adapting Daredevil for Netflix.
 * DeKnight mentions that The Kingpin is as close to the comics as they could get without going the animated series route, as DeKnight states: "I don’t know if there’s another human being on the planet that embodies Wilson Fisk, physically, like in the comics. I think, honestly, he (D'Onofrio) is as close as you’re going to get, unless you’re doing an animated series. We just marveled. We were like holy s**t, it is Wilson Fisk come to life!"
 * DeKnight states in an interview that the costume in the film will evolve as the series progresses throughout the first season.
 * Charlie Cox stated that Daredevil will be much darker than anything else in the Marvel Cinematic Universe up to this point.
 * This show will be connected to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, along with other Netflix series involving Iron Fist (2015), Luke Cage (2015) and A.K.A. Jessica Jones (2015).
 * Although most photos of Daredevil pre-release show him in a generic black outfit, it was confirmed that he would appear in his iconic red outfit toward the end of the first season.
 * The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios) was originally intended to be a parody of early 80's comics including Cerebus, Ronin, and Daredevil (Marvel). The traffic accident involving a blind man and a truck carrying radioactive ooze, In the original TMNT comic, Splinter witnesses a boy struck in the face by a cannister of ooze. "Splinter" is a take on Daredevil's mentor "The Stick". In the Daredevil comic, there's a mysterious group of ninjas known as the Hand; The TMNT comic has The Foot Clan.
 * Michael C. Hall was considered for the role of Matt Murdock/Daredevil.
 * Crime films such as "The French Connection" and "Taxi Driver" are cited as an influence on the series. According to Marvel TV executive Jeph Loeb on this series "We've always approached this as a crime drama first, superhero show second."
 * Charlie Cox was Joe Quesada's first choice for the role, going back even before Marvel regained the rights to the character.
 * This marks the first time in 26 years that the character of Wilson Fisk/Kingpin is by a Caucasian actor (Vincent D'Onofrio) in a live action adaption of the character.
 * The black costume that was shown upon reveal takes great inspiration from Frank Miller's Daredevil comic book storyline.
 * Drew Goddard was initially hired to be the show runner for the first season, but had to drop out. Goddard was committed to directing the feature film version of the Sinister Six, another Marvel property that would've conflicted with this series. Steven S. DeKnight took his place.
 * Based on Frank Miller's "The Man Without Fear".
 * Charlie Cox is the first non-American actor to play Matt Murdock/Daredevil in a live action adaption of the character.
 * Both original showrunner/developer Drew Goddard and showrunner Steven S. DeKnight were writers for Mutant Enemy, production company of Joss Whedon. Both Goddard and DeKnight wrote for Whedon's shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff, Angel. All three are, as of 2015, developing Marvel properties; The Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Sinister Six, and Daredevil for Whedon, Goddard, and DeKnight, respectively. Daredevil and The Avengers are property of Marvel Studios and exist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) while The Sinister Six is a spinoff of Sony's, currently, abandoned The Amazing Spider-Man series. As of the deal made between the two studios on February 2nd, 2015, Spider-Man, along with all of his side characters, will become canon in the MCU. Whedon, Goddard, and DeKnight are now, again, contributing to the same intellectual property.
 * When Daredevil dons his classic red suit, it will be an adaptation of the costume he wore in the comic arc Secret Wars.
 * The first live action Daredevil adaption to have Matt Murdock/Daredevil be trained under the Stick. In the previous live action Daredevil continuity, Stick only appeared in the Elektra (2005) spin-off film to which he had no known connections to Daredevil.
 * Scott Glenn is the first American actor to play the Stick.
 * Back in 1983, the ABC network had plans for a live-action Daredevil TV series. Academy Award-winning writer Stirling Silliphant completed the draft of the pilot episode, but it was never aired on TV.
 * Although Daredevil's costume is most well known as red, the original comic book costume was yellow and brown.
 * First Marvel Studios production to feature intense, bloody violence and a rating of TV-MA.
 * First Marvel Cinematic Universe Supehero to have a secret identity.