Will Matt Murdock battle Gladiator?
As if Matt Murdock didn’t have enough to deal with already (blindness, the evil Kingpin, endless legal paperwork), he’ll also have to deal with a phalanx of new bad guys in Marvel and Netflix’s new 13-episode Daredevil.
Adding depth to Hell’s Kitchen's supporting characters are Rob Morgan, who'll play nickel-and-dime hood Turk Barrett, and Dexter's Matt Gerald, who steps into the shoes of machinist Melvin Potter. In the Marvelverse, Potter is a costumer-turned-supervillain called Gladiator. Although there’s no mention of that in Marvel’s press release, the “machinist" part may offer a clue. Gladiator is known for his chunky metal armour.
Joining Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk (AKA The Kingpin) on the side of naughtiness are Peter Shinkoda's Nobu, a Japanese businessman with a shadowy agenda. Law And Order’s Wai Ching Ho will play the powerful Madame Gao, while Nikolai Nikolaeff and Gideon Emery are Vladimir and Anatoly, two Russian brothers fresh on American shores and unlikely to be there for the sights.
“With an already tremendous cast, these six actors help to fully flesh out Matt Murdock’s world and give life to Hell’s Kitchen,” says executive producer Jeph Loeb. “We’ve been blessed to work with such amazing actors on this series to create a truly remarkable first season.”
“The challenge in bringing 'villains' to the screen is always in portraying them as three-dimensional characters,” adds showrunner Steven S. DeKnight. "Our actors crafted deeply flawed, wonderfully human antagonists.”
The series, from Spartacus man DeKnight, gets down and dirty in the world of Hell’s Kitchen, New York, where upstanding but frustrated lawyer Murdock (Charlie Cox) decides that to help save his neighbourhood from a tidal wave of crime and post-Avengers trouble, he’s going to take matters into his own hands. By forming them into fists and dishing out rough justice as a night-time vigilante.
With Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Rosario Dawson, Ayelet Zurer, Bob Gunton and Scott Glenn among the cast, all ten episodes of the first Daredevil season arrive on Netflix on April 10. We had an exclusive chat with Cox about the show, which you can find here, and there’s more about the series in the current issue of Empire, on shelves now.
from Empire News
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