Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio, who portrayed classic Marvel Comics characters Daredevil and The Kingpin respectively, are set to appear in the upcoming Disney+ series Echo.

Both actors played their characters in the Netflix series Daredevil, which had been cancelled after three seasons. Hawkeye breakout Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez also stars in the upcoming series, which is currently being filmed in Atlanta, US.

Marvel Studios’s latest move to involve the familiar faces in Echo indicates that it is trying to induct popular characters from Netflix’s now-defunct Marvel shows into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Reports say Echo includes a plotline in which Daredevil will be searching for his former ally Jessica Jones, another Marvel character who toplined a standalone Netflix series and was played by Krysten Ritter.

Cox played Matt Murdock in the three seasons of Daredevil from 2015 to 2018 as well as in the 2017 team-up series The Defenders. D’Onofrio played the villain Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin in the first and third seasons of Daredevil. The pair won over many fans and raised the bar for the superhero-villain conflict on television.

In 2018, Netflix, which had an agreement with Disney to create Marvel properties, cancelled Cox’s run as Daredevil as Disney planned to launch its own rival streaming service Disney+.

Cox believed he had moved past the character of Murdock, but things changed in June 2020 when Marvel CEO Kevin Feige called him to ask if he would be interested in making a comeback.

Only too happy to oblige, Cox made a comeback as Murdock in a one-scene cameo as Peter Parker’s attorney in Spider-Man: No Way Home in December 2021. A few days later, D’Onofrio was also revealed to be the villain in Hawkeye.

Since then, Disney+ moved Daredevil and other Netflix shows based on Marvel characters to the service and ordered a new Daredevil series, which would technically be its fourth season.