“Daredevil: Born Again” writer Jesse Wigutow has revealed that the Marvel Studios series nearly featured an episode dedicated entirely to another MCU character connected to the world of Daredevil.
Speaking with IGN, he says the episode in question would’ve been a ‘bottle episode’ dedicated to Echo and The Punisher with Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle spending an ‘interesting night’ with Alaqua Cox’s Echo. Wigutow says:
“They were looking to do a kind of singular bottle episode around the Punisher crossing into the Daredevil space. This was two, three years ago, and one thing led to another, and I came in to largely focus on that. It involved the Punisher and Echo kind of spending an interesting night together — not romantically, but narratively.”
While the idea went away, he adds that it could come back around at some point:
“Who knows, maybe it comes back again. But the story has been a little kind of crooked in terms of the development, and it was part of a former idea.”
Bottle episodes, episodes produced relatively cheaply using as few characters as possible and restricted mostly to just dialogue, were a staple of network television in the days of 22-episode seasons in order to cut costs and save time, but have largely been absent in the streaming era.
The report comes as scooper Daniel Richtman says he’s confirmed that Elektra is coming back to the series, but it’s not clear if she’ll be in the second or third season. Elodie Yung played the character in the Netflix incarnation of the show who was last seen seemingly buried alive under the collapsing Midland Circle building.
