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Echo's Vincent D’Onofrio Hints at Kingpin's Political Ambitions

Marvel's Echo, directed by Sydney Freeland, breaks new ground with deaf, disabled, and Indigenous lead character.

Overview

  • Vincent D’Onofrio, who plays Wilson “Kingpin” Fisk in the Disney+ and Hulu miniseries Echo, has hinted at the character's future, suggesting that Fisk may run for mayor of New York City.
  • Echo, directed by Sydney Freeland, is the first Marvel series to feature a deaf, disabled, and Indigenous lead character, played by Alaqua Cox.
  • The series is also the first to be released simultaneously on Disney+ and Hulu, and to release all episodes at once rather than weekly.
  • Echo explores the 'fallible' people of a fictional Oklahoma reservation and their community after a 'seismic, traumatic event'.
  • Freeland, the MCU’s first openly transgender director, has stated that she had more creative freedom on Echo than on any other TV show she has worked on to date.