Is Echo MCU Canon?

After current Marvel Studios feedback, some followers are leaping proper again into the continuity debate.

Now that Loki nearing the top of its Season Two run, the following tv launch from Marvel Studios will probably be Echo, the Alaqua Cox-starring collection spinning out of the occasions of Hawkeye. The present will mark a collection of first for Marvel; it is the primary tv present from the outfit that will probably be launched abruptly, it is the primary Marvel Studios venture to see simultaneous launch on each Disney+ and Hulu, and it is the primary venture that may reside beneath the studio’s Marvel Spotlight banner.

With all that in thoughts, some feedback from one Marvel government have some questioning whether or not or not the collection will really happen within the MCU’s fabled “Sacred Timeline.” During a press occasion for Echo, Marvel Studios head of streaming Brad Winderbaum revealed any venture launched as part of the Marvel Spotlight line could also be considerably faraway from continuity.

“Marvel Spotlight gives us a platform to bring more grounded, character-driven stories to the screen, and in the case of Echo, focusing on street-level stakes over larger MCU continuity,” Winderbaum mentioned on the occasion.

Though the phrases continuity and canon could scare a few of Marvel Television’s earliest followers, it is extremely unlikely Marvel Studios would produce Echo, solely to have the present set outdoors the Sacred Timeline. In truth, most would most likely say it is assured to be canon or, on the very least, such a transfer would definitely be unprecedented.

In addition to Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez/Echo and Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin, the forged of Echo consists of Chaske Spencer as Henry, Tantoo Cardinal as Chula, Graham Greene as Skully, Cody Lightning as Cousin Biscuits, Charlie Cox as Daredevil, Devery Jacobs as Bonnie, and Zahn McClarnon as William Lopez.

Every episode of Echo will probably be launched each on Disney+ and Hulu concurrently on January 10, 2024.

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