Check Out the Trailer for Netflix’s New Daredevil Series

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Depending on your read of Marvel’s current cinematic strategies (or just what sort of mood you happen to be in), you might see an attempt to bring Daredevil to screen again as a timely reboot or an unfair flogging of a very dead horse. The last film version of Daredevil was a universally panned misstep involving a woefully useless turn from Ben Affleck and a silly, contrived revenge plot that tried to paint darker shades than the famously campy comic and only succeeded in looking like some half-arsed Sky One miniseries from the early 2000s featuring Colin Farrell giving the single worst performance of his career (to date). The only good thing about it was the late, great Michael Clarke Duncan hamming it up as the iconic King Pin. It also had a spin-off, Electra, I heard that the DVD of that comes with a two week cycle supply of Prozac.

Having corralled Spider Man back into their clutches (and probably upset Andrew Garfield), Marvel have now also decided that Daredevil needs to be redeemed and they’ve handed the job over to Netflix. The project actually started germinating back in 2012 when Marvel first got the rights back from 20th Century Fox and after a lot of shuffling, on location shooting for a 13-episode season began in New York early last year, wrapping a few months ago. Originally Buffy and LOST veteran Drew Goddard was drafted to be showrunner, but he walked away from it in order to work on Sony’s Sinister Six movie (but with Spider Man being worked back into the Marvel cannon, lord knows what will end up happening to that). Another Whedon collaborator was found to take the helm in Steven S. DeKnight, who also produced more than 20 of the 40-and-counting Spartacus: Something on/of the Something shows that keep flaring up like violent, CGI laden nettle rash.

The show is set to be a forerunner to a Defenders mini-series and stars Charlie Cox (Boardwalk Empire) as Daredevil, Vincent D’Onofrio (Pyle from Full Metal Jacket) as King Pin, Deborah Ann Woll (True Blood) as Karen Page and stage actor Bob Gunton as The Owl, a little known cult favourite villain whose only other screen appearance was in the 90s Spider-Man cartoon for one episode in which he had no speaking lines at all. As the name suggests, he’s basically a man-owl. Netflix have released the first full-length trailer for the show, which you can viddy below:

The show drops on April 10th. It doesn’t look any less dark than the previous iteration, which isn’t exactly the best sign and reception for previous Marvel/DC based shows hasn’t exactly been warm and fuzzy (hey, everyone on the planet, did you catch the latest Flash? I thought not), but who knows, this might be the one to buck the trend.

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