'Echo' Release Date Moved Up As Next For Primetime Releases
The next series from Marvel Studios follows in the footsteps of 'Loki' and 'Ahsoka'
Marvel Studios has released a new teaser for their upcoming series Echo, with major emphasis on its release on both Hulu and Disney+, the brutality in its action and the TV-MA rating it earned for it. Viewer discretion is advised. However, it was no longer advertising a January 10 premiere. Instead, the series will premiere six hours earlier, on January 9, 2024 at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific.
This brings back the primetime releases they did for Ahsoka on Tuesdays and Loki on Thursdays. However, Echo’s release plan hasn’t changed. All five episodes are still releasing at once, in what the trailer calls “One killer drop”. Not sure that’s ever happened before outside of standard release times. The narrated trailer begins with Maya aka Echo, played by Alaqua Cox, heading in, as goons tell another that “Kingpin thanks [them] for [their] loyalty”. What ensues is what’s probably a one-scene fight sequence. Echo and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin each get to lay their own beat downs in show footage, including in an arcade. There’s even a glimpse of Charlie Cox as Daredevil, now in that maroon/burgundy the character is known for. At least his iteration. The teaser ends with presumed body removal.
Echo will see Maya face her past, reconnect with her Native American roots and embrace the meaning of family and community. That is if she ever hopes to move forward while balancing aspirations tied to a life of crime as successor to Kingpin’s brutal legacy. The series also stars Chaske Spencer, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, Devery Jacobs, Zahn McClarnon, and Cody Lightning. Its episodes are directed by (tribes in parentheses): Sydney Freeland (Navajo) and Catriona McKenzie (Gunaikurnai). The series’s executive producers are Kevin Feige, Stephen Broussard, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Victoria Alonso, Richie Palmer, Jason Gavin (Blackfeet), Marion Dayre and Sydney Freeland with co-executive producers Jennifer L. Booth and Amy Rardin.
