Echo spoilers follow.
Echo writer Amy Rardin has broken down the new series' big Daredevil fight scene.
The newly-released Marvel show follows the titular hero – aka Maya Lopez – as she is pursued by Wilson Fisk's criminal empire following the events of Hawkeye, returning to Oklahoma as she reconnects with her Native American roots.
The series' first episode features a flashback to Echo fighting Daredevil, Rardin revealing in a recent interview with Deadline that they wanted to use Charlie Cox's character "in a specific way".
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"I mean, we were really excited to get to use Daredevil, because he’s a very important part of in the [Echo] comics," she explained. "So we knew that we were going to want to use him in a specific way.
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"The fight between Daredevil and Maya was very important to [director] Sydney [Freeland]. We talked a lot in the room about consistently keeping the story from Maya’s point of view."
"We know how excited everyone is about Daredevil. We were excited about Daredevil. But really what that fight is about is Maya going from student to practical," Rardin went on to note. "It’s the first time she kills someone. It’s the first time she proves herself to Kingpin. She took on one of his biggest rivals. It’s her coming into her own in Fisk’s operation.
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"So that is how we approached that fight. To get to be able to use Daredevil was amazing, but it was very much in service of Maya’s story and who she is at that time in her life."
In other news, Echo recently launched under the Marvel Spotlight banner, which aims to give the comics powerhouse a "platform to bring more grounded, character-driven stories to the screen", and focuses "on street-level stakes over larger MCU continuity".
All episodes of Echo are now streaming on Disney+.
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