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Vincent D’Onofrio, who plays Kingpin in “Daredevil: Born Again,” seems to like the idea of his villainous character making the jump to the big screen. However, according to the star, Wilson Fisk is stuck in the medium of television because of rights issues.
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Asked on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast about possibly appearing in “Spider-Man: Brand New Day or any other Marvel films, D’Onofrio responded, “The only thing I know is not positive. It’s a very hard thing to do, for Marvel to use my character. It’s a very hard thing to do, because of ownership and stuff.
Right now, I’m only usable for television series. Different kinds of series, whatever it is, but not even a one-off Fisk movie or anything like that, it’s all caught up in rights and stuff. I don’t know when that would work out, or if it ever would work out at all, actually.”
Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin.
Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin.
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It’s a curious answer because it isn’t immediately clear what ownership issues D’Onofrio is referring to. If Daredevil can appear in a film as he did in “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” then presumably Wilson Fisk should be able to as well.
Spider-Man could be the key to the problem. While Kingpin is more closely associated with Daredevil, he began his fictional life as a Spider-Man villain, meaning Sony could possibly claim some ownership over the movie rights. However, if that’s the case, then on one hand it begs the question of how Michael Clarke Duncan played the character in 2003’s “Daredevil.” On the other, it wouldn’t stop D’Onofrio appearing as Kingpin in “Spider-Man” films because they are Sony films.
Of course, considering the history of Marvel PR, it’s also possible that this is all an elaborate smoke screen and D’Onofrio is set to appear in a Marvel movie as we speak. The white lies of Andrew Garfield and Charlie Cox re: “Spider-Man: No Way Home” will never be forgotten.
Whatever it is that’s keeping D’Onofrio’s Kingpin off the big screen, he’s certainly made a huge splash in the small one. After playing the character in all three seasons of Netflix’s “Daredevil,” he went on to reprise the role for “Hawkeye,” “Echo,” and most recently in “Daredevil: Born Again.”
“Daredevil: Born Again” streams on Disney+ every Tuesday at 9 PM ET, 6 PM PT.
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