These days, Charlie Cox spends a lot of time talking about Daredevil and the previous movie. Three years after he last played the Marvel character on Netflix, he made a surprise cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home, which marked the superhero’s official entrance into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since then, it’s been the going topic about what will happen next with Cox’s character.
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has clearly made Cox the only actor to play Daredevil in the MCU moving forward. While Cox denies knowing anything about Marvel’s future plans, he has repeatedly said that he is game to return as Daredevil in any capacity.
While Cox’s passion for the character is undeniable, he does not seem to have much passion for the 2003 film that starred Ben Affleck as the blind superhero. In fact, he had not even seen the Daredevil movie before he was cast as the hero. “I watched it once, and then I wanted to go and do my own thing,” Cox said on a recent panel at the Middle East Film and Comic Con in Abu Dhabi.
The actor went on to say that while he was impressed by Ben Affleck’s performance as Matt Murdock, he did not enjoy much else about the film. “I don’t love the movie,” Cox said. “I feel like the movie tried to do too much, and it was a little tonally confused.”
“They had everyone in that movie-they had Kingpin, they had Bullseye, they had Elektra, they had Karen Page, they had Foggy,” he said. “It saw saturated, and it’s two hours. So that was part of that problem.”
Will Cox return as Daredevil in his own movie soon?
While there has yet to be a film that matches the quality of the beloved Netflix series, Cox believes that could change. Charlie Cox hopes to play Daredevil in a movie, even if that means his character has to be shoehorned into the more family-friendly realm of the MCU.
“I’m such a fan of everything they’ve done so far, I wouldn’t underestimate them at all,” he said of Marvel. “So if they want to make a more PG version of Daredevil, I back them to find a way to do it where it feels totally in keeping everything we’ve done.”
The Daredevil series, including the other Defenders shows, will be moving to Disney+ on March 16th, so be sure to catch up if you haven’t already!
