Vincent D’Onofrio’s character of Wilson Fisk is easily one of the greatest Marvel villains of all time. Not just across three seasons of Daredevil, but also Hawkeye, Echo, and now, Daredevil: Born Again. But if you’re hoping that the Kingpin will make the jump to the big screen, we have bad news. According to D’Onofrio, Fisk can’t ever be in a movie. Via IGN, we learned that while D’Onofrio was a guest on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, he said that Fisk can’t appear in any movie. All due to rights and ownership of the character. Here’s what he told host Josh Horowitz:
I’m only usable for television shows. Not even a one-off Wilson Fisk movie. It’s all caught up in rights and stuff. I don’t know when that would work out — or if it ever would work out at all.
We are not privy to the legality of this situation, but we can make an educated guess. Kingpin made his debut in 1967’s Amazing Spider-Man #50, and for several years, was a primary Spidey villain. It wasn’t until the early ’80s, that writers like Frank Miller transitioned him into Daredevil’s world. Eventually, he became Matt Murdock’s main adversary. However, because he debuted as a Spider-Man bad guy, Sony may still own the movie rights to the character, just not the TV rights. This is why he’s the “Big Bad” of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. This may be how he was able to appear in the original Daredevil show in the first place.
However, this is where our theory falls apart a bit. The character of Wilson Fisk first appeared in the 2003 Daredevil movie, played by Michael Clarke Duncan. 20th Century Fox produced that film, and Sony had the Spider-Man movie rights by then. Was Kingpin a character two specific studios co-owned, like Quicksilver? Remember when two different actors played the same character in an X-Men movie and an Avengers movie within the same year? Whatever the situation is, the result is the same, and we can’t get a big screen Fisk. Which is a darn shame. At least D’Onofrio gets to shine in so many Marvel TV shows as such a rich character. Film’s loss is TV’s gain.
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