Where, how, and when? Well, it’s possible that Cox could appear as Matt Murdock in a number of forthcoming MCU projects, and two of those appearances may happen in the next three weeks.
Episode three of Hawkeye on Disney+, “Echoes”, just introduced Maya Lopez aka Echo into the MCU, a character known for her links to Matt Murdock in the pages of Marvel Comics, and it’s been confirmed that Alaqua Cox will play Lopez in an Echo spinoff series that could easily feature Daredevil.
The same episode also teased the return of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin. When Kingpin pops up, of course, Daredevil is rarely far behind. There are also those persistent rumors about Cox reprising the iconic role in this month’s highly anticipated MCU threequel, Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Cox has been fielding questions about his Daredevil return ever since the Netflix show was unexpectedly cancelled back in 2018, devastating fans of the street level Marvel series. In mid-2019, he admitted the cancellation had come as a “real shock”, and revealed that he’d turned down other jobs to star in a fourth season of the show.
Should Marvel deliver an early Christmas present to fans of the series, it’s unlikely that the Matt Murdock of the MCU will be completely in step with the Netflix version of the character. In October of this year, Cox teased that revisiting Daredevil in any upcoming projects may mean implementing some key changes.
“If there was an opportunity for me to come back as Daredevil, whatever that would look like, I imagine it would be a reimagining of the character and the show,” posited the actor. “If they choose me to do it, there are going to be some elements that are of course the same.”
