Echo: new Marvel show release date and time on Disney+, cast with Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin - and trailer

Alaqua Cox reprises her role as Maya Lopez AKA Echo, a deaf superhero first introduced to the MCU in 2021 series Hawkeye. Cox, like her character is deaf, and Hawkeye marked her screen debut.

Echo explored the backstory to Lopez’s character and her growth into the titular superhero. Through the series, Lopez must face her past, reconnect with her Native American roots and embrace the meaning of family to move forward.

The series will also see the return of Charlie Cox as Daredevil and Vincent D'Onofrio as supervillain Kingpin. The pair both starred in Netflix series Daredevil - Cox was reintroduced into the MCU in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and D’Onofrio returned in Hawkeye. 

As the first MCU project of the year, and following the box office disaster that was The Marvels, there is much riding on the series as Marvel aims to save its ailing reputation.

Is there a trailer for Echo?

Yes there is, and you can watch it right here:

Who is in the cast of Echo?

• Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez (Echo)
• Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk (Kingpin)
• Devery Jacobs as Bonnie
• Zahn McClarnon as William Lopez
• Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock (Daredevil)
• Dannie McCallum as Tuklo
• Alejandra Jaime as Spirit

Who is Echo?

In the Marvel comics, Maya Lopez was first introduced in a 1999 issue of Daredevil. Her father was an associate of gangster and supervillain Wilson Fisk, The Kingpin, but was killed by him. She is of Native American heritage from the Cheyenne Nation.

Despite murdering her father, Kingpin raised Maya as his own child - she was at first believed to be mentally disabled but it was later realised that she is deaf but has extraordinary abilities.

Lopez is an expert martial artist, a skilled acrobat and athlete, and has photographic reflexes. She is sent by Kingpin to kill Daredevil, but falls in love with him instead and she turns on her adopted father.

Which other Marvel shows and films are coming out in 2024?

Other Marvel series coming to Disney+ in 2024 include: Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, Eyes of Wakanda, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and Marvel Zombies. 

The only confirmed MCU movie coming to cinemas this year is Deadpool 3. Whilst the first two Deadpool films were not part of the MCU, the second sequel is now that Disney has acquired the rights to X-Men.