Three years after Daredevil ended on Netflix, Vincent D’Onofrio returned to the role of Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. Kingpin, for Hawkeye, and it just so happened to occur the same month that Charlie Cox cameoed as Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home. D’Onofrio then reprised his Marvel character in Echo, and now we’re only weeks away from him stepping back into Fisk’s shoes for March’s Daredevil: Born Again. With roughly a month to go until the series’ premiere on the 2025 TV schedule, the actor has shared a major way Kingpin this time around will differ from how we saw him in Hawkeye, and it makes a lot of sense.
When Kingpin popped up on Hawkeye in late 2021, he was significantly stronger and more durable than he’d been presented in Daredevil, which played into the ambiguity of whether this was actually the same Wilson Fisk that those with a Netflix subscription had watched for three seasons. It’s since been clarified that Daredevil and the other Netflix-era Marvel shows did indeed take place take place in the main MCU continuity rather than another corner of the Marvel multiverse. That being said, D’Onofrio alluded to SFX (via ComicBookMovie) that we shouldn’t expect Kingpin to be shown at such a superhuman level in the upcoming Marvel TV show. As he explained:
They were kind of different iterations of the Fisk from the original show. My job is to service the story. Hawkeye was one style of show, very far away from the Netflix series, and the way Fisk was written itself – which was really good – was a completely different world. When I did Echo, they leaned into the grittiness, but when it came to Fisk, it still was not quite the original thing. We’ve had the chance now to do it the way we wanted to do it.
