12/17/2022 0 Comments Elektra daredevil season 1![]() You’ve laid the groundwork for Karen Page to have a mysterious past. There’s a scene in Episode 1, where we see them having fun, and we really were mindful of giving that because we knew we couldn’t let them stay there forever. They’re a band who’s withstood Hell’s Kitchen and everything that’s gone on. They even make little jokes about Nelson, Murdock & Page. We loved Matt, Foggy and Karen all together. And then, we knew we couldn’t keep them there, so we had to strain them in a credible way. PETRIE: At the end of Season 1, we worked so hard to get these three characters, who we love so much, to be unified and together. The show is Matt’s story, but that doesn’t mean that every ship isn’t going to crash into the other one. It all exists in the same lovely, messy place in Hell’s Kitchen, so of course, everyone is going to get shoved in there. You’ll get to see how these people react to those sharks being in the water. But what the entrance of The Punisher and Elektra means to Karen and Foggy is also something we got to do this season, which is incredibly exciting. We’re getting lots of questions about what The Punisher and Elektra do this season and how that affects Matt, and those are absolutely the right questions. They’re just magnetic, wonderful presences that you want to be around. We love writing for Karen and Foggy, as much as we love writing for Matt. RAMIREZ: It was damn near impossible, but we got some of the smartest writers we know and we got in a room. ![]() How difficult is it to juggle all of that? It was difficult to keep Matt front and center, but we were very, very mindful of it, 13 times.Īt the same time you have to work to keep Matt Murdock front and center, you also have Foggy and Karen who have their own personal journeys. We never peeled back and said, “Okay, let’s water that down to make room for Matt.” We were like, “Okay, let’s keep this if we love it, but completely turn it over and look at how this affects Matt and filter it through that prism.” I think we were pretty successful, overall. We would often come up with amazing stuff in the room, and everyone writes with great passion and dedication, but then we’d go, “Oh, where’s Matt Murdock?” They really can overpower your guy. PETRIE: With Elektra and The Punisher, they’re both such powerful characters that they could hijack a story so easily. If you were to sit and watch 13 episodes, you would absolutely feel a structure, much like in the comics. It was never a Netflix mandate or a Marvel mandate, but we talked about when we watch shows in 13-episode stretches, how do we watch them? What is an exciting structure that we would like to think about here? Do we divide it right down the middle? Do we do a three-act structure? What do we do? So, we got to sit in the room and build this arc that we think is satisfying, on its own. We did also have the freedom of knowing we had 13 episodes to tell a story. We’re really proud of that and we really think it works. So, we built it like a Matt story, in terms of what we wanted to put him through, where we wanted to get him, by the end of the season, and what we wanted to have him learn about himself, and we used an Elektra and Frank story throughout, to get him there. Most importantly, we wanted to make sure everything runs through Matt because it could easily become The Punisher story or the Elektra story that Matt cameos in, and not vice versa. We knew we had 13 episodes, so we wanted to find the coolest story we could do with these three characters and make the story feel really vibrant and alive in ways that are exciting to us. By the end of the season, he was a completely different person than he was at the beginning. It was Daredevil: Year One and Wilson Fisk: Year One. MARCO RAMIREZ: Because we knew, early on, that we had The Punisher and Elektra, we knew we didn’t want to repeat Season 1. Is The Punisher the season-long antagonist, and is the moral divide between Matt Murdock and Frank Castle the main idea you’re exploring? We kill them.” They don’t feel like it’s that big of a difference, but he does. We do that, too, except there’s a difference. ![]() They’re saying, “Oh, okay, you’re going to put on this suit and beat people up that you feel deserve it. He was intrigued with the question, what is it to be a hero? In Season 1, we built the hero, but now we have these new characters coming in and testing Matt Murdock. We asked ourselves, how do we avoid antagonist glut and icon glut in one season? What made Season 1 so successful was the slow burn and the build of exploring Wilson Fisk and Matt Murdock completely. Question: You’re bringing on huge characters this season with The Punisher and Elektra, so how did that come about?ĭOUG PETRIE: We were given those two characters and we eagerly embraced it.
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