Celebrity Evangelist Shares Gospel with DAREDEVIL’s Charlie Cox: ‘Be Praying’

Celebrity Evangelist Shares Gospel with DAREDEVIL’s Charlie Cox: ‘Be Praying’

By Movieguide® Contributor 

Celebrity Evangelist Dylan Novak recently shared the gospel with DAREDEVIL and SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME star Charlie Cox. 

“Charlie has said that playing Matt Murdock/Daredevil led him to revert back to his Catholic upbringing,” Novak wrote on Facebook. “Charlie was very kind and appreciative of GASP! by Tony Nolan, Jesus>Religion by Jefferson Bethke, tracts, and letter. Please be praying for him.” 

Cox’s character will return soon in ECHO, a new series on Disney+. 

“On January 9, 2024, Marvel Studios will drop its next series, in full, on Disney+,” Inside the Magic reported. “In a number of firsts for The Walt Disney Company and its superhero subsidiary, the ECHO TV show will not only drop all of its episodes in one go–five in total– but it will also cross-release on both Disney+ and Hulu. In addition to this new release model, ECHO will be Disney and Marvel’s first TV-MA series and the first under its new Marvel Spotlight banner.”

Many fans are both excited and skeptical about the new series, wondering whether Disney can live up to their standards for the Daredevil character.

Fans had mixed reactions to a recently released fight scene from the upcoming series.

“There is a certain preciousness that many Marvel fans [feel] over the Man Without Fear,” ITM shared. “The character was the center of a hugely popular Netflix series for three seasons. Daredevil was part of Marvel Entertainment’s Defenders universe on the streaming service, alongside the likes of Jessica Jones starring Krysten Ritter, Luke Cage with Mike Colter, and Iron Fist starring Finn Jones. The group eventually convened in THE DEFENDERS, also on the streamer.”

Cox’s character will also get his own show called DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN.

The original DAREDEVIL series was nominated for Movieguide®’s Epiphany Prize® for Most Inspiring TV Program. 

While the violence in the original turned many viewers off, Cox said the new series will be less graphic. 

“This character works best when he’s geared toward a slightly more mature audience,” the actor explained. “[But] my instinct is that on Disney+, it will be dark, but it probably won’t be as gory.”

However, due to creative changes, the show may be headed to a “darker, grittier, more violent path” anyway. Movieguide® reported: 

Amid a pause in production due to the actors’ strike, Marvel’s upcoming DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN series has changed direction as new directors and showrunners push it toward more violent content.

After releasing head writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman during the strike-induced pause, Marvel brought on Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead to lead the show, adding Dario Scardapane as a showrunner.

These new additions will overhaul the show’s creative direction, bringing it down a darker, grittier, more violent path.

Following the story of a blind lawyer turned superhero, DAREDEVIL previously aired a TV series on Netflix in the mid-2010s. While the show sported a positive, uplifting storyline—even winning a Movieguide® Epiphany Award—its audience was limited because of excessive violence and gore.