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“Spider-Man: No Way Home” saw the first character from Marvel Television and Netflix’s various shows make it officially into the MCU – Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock.
Since then, those Netflix shows have all been adopted into official MCU canon and with “Daredevil: Born Again” the new chapter for them has begun. Genuine questions are out there in regards to who will be next to make the jump to the MCU with Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones the most likely candidate.
However it turns out there are still some parts of the MCU where at least some of these characters can’t tread. Case in point is Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk/Kingpin – a role the actor has been playing for over a decade.
The MCU has embraced him wholeheartedly, the actor appearing in three series on Disney+ so far including “Hawkeye,” “Echo” and “Daredevil: Born Again”. However one place you won’t be seeing him in is the Marvel movies. Speaking with Happy Sad Confused this week, he says:
“It’s a very hard thing to do, for Marvel to use my character. It’s a very hard thing to do, because of ownership and stuff. I’m only usable for television shows… Not even a one-off Wilson Fisk movie. It’s all caught up in rights and stuff. I don’t know when that would work out – or if it ever would work out at all.”
So there’ll be no Wilson Fisk in “Avengers: Doomsday” or “Spider-Man 4” as has been speculated. As the character made his debut as a Spider-Man villain, speculation is the big screen rights to the character may lie with Sony (and thus his appearance in Fox’s 2003 “Daredevil” film could’ve been licensed) but no-one seems to have a clear answer.
The second season of “Daredevil: Born Again” is currently shooting and D’Onofrio confirms he and Cox get much more screen time together in the next run.