Vincent D’Onofrio is interested in seeing Kingpin outside of a traditional portrayal. “I would love to do, like a, What If…? kind of Fisk story,” he said. “I would just like to explore him in a, outside of the usual teaming up of villain and superhero. I’d like to see a truly more realistic version.” Despite “Echo” being the first TV-MA show produced by Marvel Studios, the actor wants to go even further with the character’s ruthlessness, saying his ideal project would be “10 times darker than anything we’ve done with [Fisk] before.”
D’Onofrio will return as Kingpin on “Daredevil: Born Again,” and while there hasn’t been any word of him crossing paths with Peter Parker on the upcoming Disney+ show, a face-off between the two characters would not only likely be epic but also be a callback to Fisk’s origins — while D’Onofrio made his Kingpin debut on “Daredevil” in 2015, the character first showed up in comics on the pages of “The Amazing Spider-Man” #50 in 1967. And if D’Onofrio has any say on the matter, it would be a grim affair.
