Echo, the new series from Marvel, is only few days away from releasing on Disney+. Marvel Studios stated that there will be a documentary released right after the five-episode show, Comicbook reports. This documentary will show behind-the-scenes footage while the show is filming. Furthermore, this show hasn’t been renewed for a second season yet.
Disney+, with their usual listing of what’s to come for this month on the streamer, revealed that the documentary’s name is Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Echo and will be released on January 31. This will be a great possibility for MCU fans to binge-watch these five episodes of Echo before being able to see the documentary that will focus on making viewers learn how the show’s effects, script, and everything else were made.
“Because we’re dealing with a story that is more street-level, it is a little more grounded and a little more visceral. We’re leaning into the TV-MA aspect of it,” the director of Echo, Sydney Freeland stated, via Comicbook. “One of the big things when I first came on was talking to Marvel and saying, ‘Well, she’s a villain in Hawkeye, and to me that’s the most interesting thing about her.’ And their response was, ‘Let’s lean into that, let’s explore that.'”
“As we progressed through the production, I had the chance to say, ‘Okay so what if this guy gets his head smashed onto the table, and actually loses a couple of teeth?,'” Freeland stated, via Comicbook. “That’s the character and that’s the world: She’s a criminal and she’s a villain, she’s killing people. And the response was, ‘Yeah, let’s try it!'”
The story of Echo shows Maya Lopez, the villain from Hawkeye, who raised hell in New York City…but has some surprises coming for her in her original hometown. She has to fight against the villains of her past, reconnect with herself, and be able to embrace the true meaning of love and family as she walks on her own new path.
This show will star Alacqua Cox (Hawkeye) as Maya Lopez, Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil, Men in Black) as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin, Charlie Cox (Daredevil, Kin) reprising his role as Matt Murdock/Daredevil. Other starring roles will be played by Tantoo Cardinal (Falls Around Her, Killers of the Flower Moon), Chaske Spencer (The English, Wild Indian), Cody Lightning (Four Sheets to the Wind, Smoke Signals), Devery Jacobs (Reservation Dogs, Backspot), Zahn McClarnon (Dark Winds, Longmire), and Graham Greene (The Wolf and the Lion, Wind River).
Executive producers of this series are Brad Winderbaum (Thor: Ragnarok, Marvel Studios: Assembled),Louis D’Esposito (Agent Carter, Item 47), Kevin Feige (Loki, Black Widow), Jason Gavin (Dark Winds, Roswell, New Mexico), Marion Dayre (Better Call Saul, The Act), Stephen Broussard (Ant-Man and the Wasp, Doctor Strange), and Richie Palmer (Double Down, Malevolence).
For co-executive producers, instead, there are Jennifer Booth (Love Beats Rhymes, Strangers with Candy), Sydney Freeland (Drunktown’s Finest, Reservation Dogs), Amy Rardin (Charmed, An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success) and Christina King (Warrior Women, We the Animals).
Echo will be available for streaming on both Disney+and Hulu exclusively on Jan. 9th.