Disney and Marvel Television have announced the premiere date of the upcoming
Daredevil series and released a new poster and brief 15-second teaser. The 13-episode series, the first in a planned 4-superhero arc, stars Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Elden Henson and Ayelet Zurer, and debuts on Netflix on April 10th. A
Blu-ray release is expected to follow later this year from Walt Disney Home Entertainment.
Official Synopsis:
Marvel's Daredevil is a live action series that follows the journey of attorney Matt Murdock (Cox), who in a tragic accident was blinded as a boy but imbued with extraordinary senses. Murdock sets up practice in his old neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, New York where he now fights against injustice as a respected lawyer by day and masked vigilante at night.
Last November, Disney and Netflix announced an unprecedented deal for Marvel TV to bring multiple original series of live-action adventures of four of Marvel's most popular characters to Netflix beginning in 2015. This agreement called for Marvel to develop four serialized programs totaling 52 one-hour episodes culminating in a four to eight episode
mini-series programming event.
The serialized programs are led by
Daredevil, which will be followed by
Jessica Jones,
Iron Fist and finally
Luke Cage. The epic will unfold over multiple years of original programming, taking viewers deep into the gritty world of heroes and villains of Hell's Kitchen, New York.
Netflix has committed to a minimum of four, thirteen episodes series and a mini-series event in which the Marvel characters from the first four series team up as "The Defenders," much like
Marvel's The Avengers.