Echo Trailer Is the First Marvel Spotlight Show

The first trailer for the upcoming Disney+ Marvel show, Echo, just dropped.  Echo, as you may recall, was a character who first appeared in the Hawkey Marvel show in 2021 and has significant history with Wilson Fisk, AKA, The Kingpin.

Echo

Echo promises to be a “street-level” hero (anti-hero?) in the same vein as Daredevil, Punisher, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones.  One intreresting, and important tid-bit related to news about Echo, is that the show will debut under a new Marvel banner, or category.  It will be a “Marvel Spotlight” show, which means that a viewer can watch Echo without having to know all the thousands of MCU connections necessary for, say, the first MCU TV show, WandaVision, or the recent Nick Fury show, “Secret Invasion.”  In other words, Marvel Spotlight shows will be more-or-less self-contained.

If Marvel follows through with this idea, it can be a good thing. While obsessive Marvel fans like me love to find all the connections among the movies and shows, it can be intimidating to new fans, or to casual fans.  In Marvel Comics, there was a Marvel Spotlight comic book title that ran in the late 1970s and early 1980s that featured mostly new characters that did not really fit anywhere else. Some of them ended up with their own comic book series, others not. But it was a good experiment, as is this new, MCU/Disney+ Marvel Spotlight experiment, we think.

Enjoy the new Echo trailer, but be aware, it is a…tad bit violent!

Watch the Echo Trailer:

Echo Description From Marvel:

No bad deed goes unpunished on Jan. 10, 2024, when Marvel Studios’ Echo launches on Disney+ and Hulu. Check out the all-new trailer and poster revealed this morning. The five-episode streaming event spotlights Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) as she is pursued by Wilson Fisk’s (Vincent D’Onofrio) criminal empire. When the journey brings her home, she must confront her own family and legacy. All five episodes will stream on Jan. 10 on both platforms. They’ll be available on Hulu until April 9. This marks the first Marvel Studios series to drop all entirely bingeable episodes at once.

Echo also stars Chaske Spencer (Wild Indian, The English), Graham Greene (1883, Goliath), Tantoo Cardinal (Killers of the Flower Moon, Stumptown), Devery Jacobs (FX’s Reservation Dogs, American Gods), Zahn McClarnon (Dark Winds, FX’s Reservation Dogs), Cody Lightning (Hey, Viktor!, Four Sheets to the Wind) and Vincent D’Onofrio (Hawkeye, Godfather of Harlem).