Netflix Releases First Images from 'Marvel's Daredevil'

Netflix has released the first images from Marvel's Daredevil. The highly-anticipated live action 13-episode show will premiere in 2015 in all territories where Netflix is available.

Marvel's Daredevil follows the journey of Matt Murdock, who was blinded as a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, now fighting against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the super hero Daredevil in modern day Hell's Kitchen, New York City.

New confirmed casting out of New York Comic-Con: Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna, Vondie Curtis Hall as Ben Urich, Bob Gunton as Leland Owlsley and Toby Leonard Moore as Wesley. These four stars join Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock), Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page), Elden Henson (Foggy Nelson), with Rosario Dawson (who role was revealed as Claire Temple) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Wilson Fisk) in the critically-lauded cast of Marvel's Daredevil.

Check out two images from Marvel's Daredevil below:

Charlie Cox stars in the Netflix Original Series Marvel's Daredevil.
Photo: Barry Wetcher © 2014 Netflix, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Marvel's first original series on Netflix is Executive Produced by series Showrunner Steven S. DeKnight (Spartacus, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Angel) and Drew Goddard (Cabin in the Woods, Lost, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, in addition to writing the first two episodes of Marvel's Daredevil), along with Marvel TV's Jeph Loeb (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Smallville, Heroes).

Marvel's Daredevil is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios for Netflix.

Charlie Cox stars in the Netflix Original Series Marvel's Daredevil.
Photo: Barry Wetcher © 2014 Netflix, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The first costume is inspired by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.'s seminal "Daredevil: Man Without Fear," a series that is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential Daredevil stories of all time. The image harkens back to the original art by Romita Jr. that inspired the costume.

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