Actor Vincent D'Onofrio Talks Kingpin - Netflix, Hawkeye And Spider-Man

This brother is about as off the page as you can get....out of all the MCU characters we've seen over the past 10+ years, he is the one who most captures the original comic material. Every scene is like a master class of how the Kingpin should be played. Hats off and take a bow. Whatever they're paying him, he deserves more.

On 12/28/2021 at 10:32 PM, Masponge said:

The Netflix shows have always been part of the MCU from Jump. During the months leading up to the airing of these shows many fans had asked and it was said that they were. Fans had also asked if there would be any crossovers between Netflix and the Movies and the answer was, "maybe but most likely not, it would depend". Also in the Netflix shows the NY battle that happened in the Avengers movie was reference several times as "The Incident".

Also on Wikipedia, "Produced by Marvel Television and ABC Studios, they are set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and acknowledge the continuity of the franchise's films and other television series. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel's_Netflix_television_series

Interview with a Netflix DD producer back in 2015. Around the 6 min mark he says "Marvel was very supportive in wanting this to be a darker corner of the MCU". Also near the end at around 27:40 mark, the interviewer asked, "Could we see DD and Kingpin in one of the movies meeting the other characters?"

Dude that interview was before the Marvel TV head was fired because he wouldn't work with Fiege. Marvel Tv supported them to spit Fiege because he wanted to bring them into the MCU proper. They are now considered a separate thing all together.

The Netflix shows have always been part of the MCU from Jump. During the months leading up to the airing of these shows many fans had asked and it was said that they were. Fans had also asked if there would be any crossovers between Netflix and the Movies and the answer was, "maybe but most likely not, it would depend". Also in the Netflix shows the NY battle that happened in the Avengers movie was reference several times as "The Incident".

Also on Wikipedia, "Produced by Marvel Television and ABC Studios, they are set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and acknowledge the continuity of the franchise's films and other television series. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel's_Netflix_television_series

Interview with a Netflix DD producer back in 2015. Around the 6 min mark he says "Marvel was very supportive in wanting this to be a darker corner of the MCU". Also near the end at around 27:40 mark, the interviewer asked, "Could we see DD and Kingpin in one of the movies meeting the other characters?"

Doesnt matter to me if the Netflix shows are canon or not, the best possible outcome from those shows demise is that Cox and Donofrio were allowed to continue on with their incredible performances as DD/ Matt and Kingpin.

If no other actor from those shows gets to reprise their role from their Netflix shows, at least these two have a future in the MCU

I really enjoyed the Hawkeye show. It felt like a nice little pocket series that was in its own world, but still connected to the mcu at large. It was just nice and wholesome and soemthing I didnt mind binging. I was especially stoked when I saw Kingpin show up!!!!! I couldnt believe it! This show and the arrival of Kingpin has just got me more excited for whats to come. And with daredevil showing up in no way home the possibilities are endless. And I understand what Vincent means about every dot not connecting. Because when these shows on Netflix were on and even the abc ones, there were a lot of things happening in the movies at the time with civil war, registration act, age of Ultron, and some things were referenced and hinted at in the shows and other things werent, so it makes sense for the things that didnt perfectly align with the mcu continuity this far to not be really important or essential to reference for these characters appearing again. This may suck for some things, but could be great for others, like we could possibly get an even better and more bad ass iron fist out of this? And see way more things than we expected. I cnat wait, so glad the mcu is finally pulling all the people in. Its going to be another crazy 10 years you guys.

I'm hyped to see him reprise his Kingpin role and I hope we get to see him battle Spider-man or even have Daredevil team up with Spider-man against Kingpin. I liked the Hawkeye series too.

It was okay series, enjoyable to a degree but not on the level of Loki or Wandavision. Still glad we got Kingpin in MCU, Hopefully Echo series will be much better and preferably with Daredevil, something tells me that its only matter of time before Echo will become Ronin herself.