DAREDEVIL Actor Vincent D'Onofrio Says the Rights to His Character Kingpin Are Caught Between Marvel and Sony

Vincent D’Onofrio has brought the villainous character Kingpin to our screens in such a way that is irreplaceable and essential to the story, making him able to transcend the changes in studios and the transition to new projects.

He embodies Wilson Fisk in a way that makes us excited to see what he does next, and wonder how Daredevil will ultimately be able to defeat him. But according to D’Onofrio, Kingpin is a character that is caught in somewhat of a limbo due to the back and forth of rights between Marvel and Sony.

Wilson Fisk made the jump from Netflix’s Daredevil series to the Disney+ series Hawkeye. He then went on to return in Echo, and he will be back and badder than ever in Daredevil: Born Again, which is set to drop next March.

Though in 2022, we learned that Daredevil himself, actor Charlie Cox will be lending his voice to Daredevil in Marvel Animation's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Unfortunately, D'Onofrio joining him in the series seems far from guaranteed.

During a recent appearance at Fan Expo Boston, D’Onofrio explained:

"I'm going to transparently say this: You know the whole Marvel-Sony thing, right? So there are characters - Marvel characters invented by Marvel, written by Marvel - that are caught in between Marvel and Sony.

And so it takes a long time for them to figure out who is doing what. I just never really know where [Kingpin can show up]. My character is in that kind of situation, unlike Charlie's. So I don't know, it's part of the deal when it comes to playing Kingpin."

So things are up in the air for D’Onofrio’s Kingpin. It really is unfortunate that the studio who originally created, and has proven themselves worthy of making content with these characters, isn’t just given back all the rights. Sony should see themselves out of the comic book genre altogether.

via: CBM