Marvel’s Echo Series Gets Terrible News, Fans Are Rightly Disappointed
If you were looking forward to Marvel’s Echo series this year, you’re going to have to wait a little longer. The Hollywood Reporter reported that the show will be pushed from its November release date to a January 2024 release date, meaning we’ll only get two more Marvel Disney+ premieres this year.
Loki Season 2 is still on track for an October 6 release date, while What If…? Season 2 is on track for a release around Christmas time after being pushed back from its initial early 2023 release date.
The release Marvel’s upcoming series Echo has been delayed by two months to January 2024.
Marvel’s Echo is set to follow Alaqua Cox’s titular character, who was first introduced in Hawkeye as sort of a surrogate daughter of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin.
After breaking free of Kingpin’s influence in that series, the new show will follow the former criminal organization head as she returns to her hometown in Oklahoma to reconcile with her past. The series is also set to feature appearances from D’Onofrio’s Kingpin, along with Charlie Cox’s Daredevil.
While Marvel’s Echo is being pushed back only two months, fans are still understandably disappointed. The series was going to drop all of its episodes at once, and fans were excited to see the continuation of Alaqua Cox’s character, as well as new appearances from Kingpin and Daredevil after they made their long-awaited MCU debuts.
Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, which was previously titled Agatha: Coven of Chaos and Agatha: House of Harkness before that, is getting the biggest push, as the original winter 2023 release date will now be moved to fall 2024.
The two fan-favorite characters were previously in Netflix’s Marvel shows, which have largely been relegated to non-canon in the MCU storyline.
Marvel’s Echo isn’t the only TV series that got pushed back, as X-Men ’97 and Agatha: Darkhold Diaries also received new release dates. X-Men ’97 is an animated series that is sort of a hybrid reboot/sequel to the beloved 1990s Fox animated X-Men series. That series was originally planned to come out in fall 2023 but is now getting pushed back to an early 2024 release date.
Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, which was previously titled Agatha: Coven of Chaos and Agatha: House of Harkness before that, is getting the biggest push, as the original winter 2023 release date will now be moved to fall 2024.
Those who are disappointed about Marvel’s Echo being pushed back two months have nothing on fans of the WandaVision antagonist, with her spin-off getting pushed back nearly a year. This seems to be more of a scheduling decision by Marvel since filming of the Agatha Harkness series finished before the strikes began.
The Source Of The Delays
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the release date pushes of Marvel’s Echo and the other Disney+ shows are partially due to the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, along with a general pullback for Disney+ content. With Disney wanting to make each of its Marvel shows more of an event, it’s spreading out the release of its shows to prevent oversaturation.
The strategy certainly makes sense, but it might have made fans happier if they executed this strategy for future projects rather than applying it to previously announced shows.
In any case, it looks like you’ll get to check out Marvel’s Echo in January. In the meantime, the most recent Marvel show, Secret Invasion, is available to stream in its entirety. You can catch Loki Season 2 when it returns in October.
