Daredevil Star Vincent D’Onofrio Says Kingpin Rights Are Split Between Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures

Vincent D’Onofrio first played crime kingpin Wilson Fisk in Netflix’s Daredevil. Like the series itself, he stayed for three seasons before the series ended and later made a surprise return in Marvel Studios’ Hawkeye.

A few weeks later, Charlie Cox appeared as Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home before springing into action as Daredevil in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Echo. Cox and D’Onofrio both appeared in the latter and Daredevil: Born Again is next to them.

In 2022, we learned that Cox would lend his voice to Daredevil in Marvel Animation’s Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Unfortunately, D’Onofrio’s arrival on the show seems far from guaranteed.

“I’ll say this straight: You know the whole Marvel-Sony thing, right?” D’Onofrio told fans at Fan Expo Boston 2024. “So there are characters – Marvel characters invented by Marvel, written by Marvel – that are caught between Marvel and Sony.