Is Netflix’s Daredevil canon with Marvel’s Echo? Sorta, says producer

polygon.com:

The question of how Echo fits into Daredevil continuity is alive and well. As the series readies for a simultaneous premiere on the all-ages Disney Plus and the more grown-up Hulu, along with Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio reprising their roles as Matt Murdock and the Kingpin Wilson Fisk, some kind of continuation is expected.

But at the same time, Marvel Studio has labeled Echo as the first installment of its own Marvel Spotlight umbrella, made for shows that don’t require you to have watched previous installments. And the MCU’s Netflix spinoffs — while must-see TV in their time — have been barely hinted at since their summary cancellations at the close of the last decade.

To executive producer Richie Palmer, Echo’s relationship with its hit Netflix predecessor and with Marvel’s new Marvel Spotlight designation both come from the same source: honoring the singular Daredevil and Echo stories that have come before this one. In Palmer’s eyes, there’s a direct line from David Mack and Joe Quesada’s late-’90s run on Daredevil (which introduced Maya Lopez as Echo in the first place) to Marvel’s Spotlight designation.

“The things that Matt Murdock was dealing with in those comics were so dark and violent, and they didn’t quite necessarily fit in with what was going on in the larger comics canon at the time,” Palmer told Polygon. “We wanted to figure out, when we were bringing Maya Lopez to life, how do we honor that aspect of the comics? How do we keep it dark and gritty and separated from everything else that was going on?

“And then Kevin [Feige] came in, as we were editing the show, and we were seeing how dark we were pushing it. And he was saying, Don’t hold back on the violence, don’t hold back on the grit and this