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Only a few days in the past, Marvel Studios revealed the primary footage its upcoming collection Echo. Beforehand meant for 2023 earlier than getting knocked to 2024 as a way to house issues out, the Hawkeye spinoff sees Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) return dwelling 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 a different way than its different exhibits—particularly within the banner it flies.
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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 ebook collection of the identical title that ran from 1971-1981 and served because the launch level for characters like Johnny Blaze’s Ghost Rider, Spider-Girl, Crimson Wolf, and Werewolf by Evening. 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 collection to grasp what’s taking place in Maya’s story.”
The particular point out of “street-level stakes” and “grounded, character-driven tales” will probably have many questioning what different exhibits could 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 may occasionally even be a means for exhibits just like the retooled Daredevil: Born Once more and a hypothetical Punisher collection (to say nothing of different characters like Ghost Rider or Jessica Jones) to maintain the mature really feel of their authentic iterations whereas nonetheless current within the MCU framework.
Echo will premiere on Disney+ and Hulu on January 10, 2024.
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