Vincent D’Onofrio is calling for Marvel and Sony to clear out the red tape so that his “Daredevil: Born Again” character, the villainous crime lord Kingpin, can face off against his longtime comic book nemesis, Spider-Man, on the big screen.
In a reply to a fan on social media calling for a live-action showdown between Spidey and Kingpin, D’Onofrio wrote, “If Sony and Marvel ever get their sh*t together maybe. It’s a complicated rights issue. Hope so.”
While D’Onofrio’s Kingpin is part of Disney and Marvel’s IP machine, Sony owns the film rights to the red and blue wall crawler. However, the studio lends out the character to Marvel so he can appear in films like “Avengers: Infinity War.”
Kingpin and Spider-Man have technically appeared in a movie together, but it was the 2018 animated film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” Liev Schreiber voiced Kingpin, who faced off against Shameik Moore’s Miles Morales.
D’Onofrio was most recently seen as Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin, in the new season of “Daredevil: Born Again,” which premiered on Disney+ Tuesday night. In the new season, Fisk is the mayor of New York City, stirring civil unrest with the help of his ultra-violent Anti-Vigilante Task Force.
The highly anticipated “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” will mark the next appearance of Holland’s web-slinging hero. Hitting theaters on July 31, the film also stars Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal and Mark Ruffalo. It’s directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers. The sequel picks up after the events of 2021’s “No Way Home,” which saw the whole world forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man.
Sony’s released the trailer for “Brand New Day’ on March 17. In just four days, it crossed 1 billion views, becoming the first movie trailer ever to reach the milestone.
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