Marvel Characters Are Better for TV Than Movies, Says Charlie Cox
Charlie Cox, star ofDaredevil, explains why he thinks that Marvel superheroes are better suited to television adaptations rather than films. The actor, who recently appeared as Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home, first took on the role of the Man Without Fear in the Netflix adaptation which ran from 2015 to 2018. After the streamer canceled the show, the licensing rights for the character were regained by Disney and the show is set to begin airing on Disney+ from March 16.
The MCU began its expansion into television with the Marvel Television department, which partnered with networks or streamers in order to bring superheroes to the small screen, including Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter, both of which were broadcast on ABC. The most successful properties licensed by Marvel Television, however, were the shows produced in partnership with Netflix centred around The Defenders, including Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones. Despite Netflix’s secrecy around ratings, these shows are believed to have performed strongly and Cox’s outing as Daredevil was critically acclaimed. However, with the then-upcoming launch of Disney+, Netflix canceled all their Marvel shows in 2019 as Disney was looking to consolidate all MCU content on their own platforms. Since then, Disney has produced new series for its streaming service in-house, with wildly successful shows such as WandaVision and Loki debuting to fan and critical acclaim.
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Now, Cox has said in an interview with ComicBook that he thinks the stories of Marvel superheroes are better suited to television adaptions. He explains that because the stories are “episodic in their original format,” they
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