Who owns the rights to Kingpin between Marvel and Sony? A messy situation to say the least, which will presumably return to the fore in the coming months between the TV series Daredevil: Born Again and the highly anticipated film Spider-Man 4, which is expected to include just Wilson Fisk as a villain.
Kingpin is currently in a sort of limboregarding the exploitation rights, and is divided/disputed between Marvel Studios/Disney and Sony: its inclusion in TV series or films must be negotiated from time to time, which is why – for example – the villain does not will appear in the Disney+ animated TV series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
He also confirmed it Vincent D’Onofrio, current interpreter of Kingpin in the MCUwho during an appearance at Fan Expo Boston 2024 in these hours declared: “I’ll say it transparently: the Marvel-Sony thing is quite complex, as far as Kingpin is concerned. There are characters – Marvel characters invented by Marvel, written by Marvel – who they are caught between Marvel and Sony, and Kingpin is one of them: every time it takes a long time for them to figure out who can do what with Wilson Fisk, and I never really know where I’m going to play next. My character is in that kind of situation, unlike Charlie Cox’s Daredevil.“
The reason for this intricate situation regarding Kingpin’s rights could date back to his publishing history, given that in comics Kingpin is a villain in both Spider-Man and Daredevil: he was born in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man #50 in 1967, but from the 80s onwards he became a fundamental character in the history of Daredevil.
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