At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, IGN talked to Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada about the success of and Season 2 plans for Netflix’s Daredevil series . He discussed the darker tone and introducing both the Punisher and Elektra.

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As CCO, Quesada’s job is to make sure any comic book that becomes a TV show, movie or what have you maintains its creative integrity and keeps its Marvel flavor. For example, Quesada teased that during Comic-Con he met with a designer about a TV show character who will be getting a new costume. He didn’t say who, but our minds immediately leap to Daredevil or Mockingbird from Agents of SHIELD.Quesada spoke about how Daredevil -- and to an extent the other planned Netflix shows for Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage -- allows them to explore the darker part of the Marvel Universe in a TV series.“I don’t want to speak too much about the other series because each one has their own flavor, but it is the smaller, darker part of the Marvel Universe,” Quesada said about Marvel's Netflix shows. “The Avengers are about saving the world. Daredevil, Jessica Jones and all those other characters, they’re about saving a neighborhood, they’re about saving a block, they’re about saving an apartment complex. So it’s smaller, but the stakes still feel the same because they’re just as important. To the people living in Hell’s Kitchen, saving their neighborhood is as important to the people in Manhattan when aliens start coming out of a portal in the sky and the Avengers came to save them.“The other big difference is that these characters live in the neighborhood. Daredevil lives in Hell’s Kitchen so it’s very, very personal. Through the Netflix platform we’re able to explore a much darker sensibility, a more adult sensibility. Even the choreography -- the fights and the action -- I think is heads and shoulders above anything else on television. That’s just a testimonial the incredible crew and cast that we have.”It was recently announced that Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead’s Shane) was cast as the Punisher for Season 2 of Daredevil, and given how big of a character he is in his own right, we wanted to know how Marvel plans on balancing screen time between the two characters.“That’s why we pay our amazing Writers Room the big bucks,” Quesada joked. “Doug Petrie and Mark Ramirez, the co-showrunners, have concocted an amazing series, an amazing season this year and believe me, sparks will fly and it’s going to be pretty phenomenal.”“We’re so happy to have Jon Bernthal because we have such a world-class cast on Daredevil; we have a world-class actor in Charlie Cox that we want to make sure we chose and were able to attain an actor who is on that same level so I think the combination of seeing Charlie and John perform those parts on the same screen. It’s going to be epic, absolutely epic.”Also announced was Elodie Yung as Elektra, the red ninja assassin who has been both ally, lover, and enemy to Daredevil.“I can’t say enough about Elodie Yung. Literally, we scoured the world for the right Elektra and, man, she is the character. She looks like the character, she walks like the character, and then she has the martial arts training and stunt background that she can rely on,” Quesada said, alluding to her roles in action flicks like G.I. Joe: Retaliation and District 13: Ultimatum. “It’s going to be really, really awesome to see her take over the role and see how she embodies and how she personifies Elektra. But again, another world-class actor who I think is going to bring something really special to Daredevil. And I think we established a really good tempo with Season 1, so fans can hopefully expect much more of the same.”For the full interview, including Quesada talking about bringing Spider-Man to the MCU, check out the video below.

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