Marvel Releases Strange 10-Hour Daredevil Video
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Marvel seems to have developed a new marketing strategy: really, really long videos. Case in point: Marvel just released a 10-hour-long meditation video featuring Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil kneeling on a rooftop in the rain. You can watch the video for quite a long time below.
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Titled "Meditate with Daredevil", the video includes sounds of rain and thunder, as well as city ambiance like honking horns. Cox remains in the same position the entire time, sometimes looking away from the camera and sometimes looking toward it. As is customary in just about every nighttime shot of Daredevil on the page or screen, there are multiple water towers in the background.
Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in "Daredevil: Born Again"
Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in "Daredevil: Born Again"
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The caption to the video reads "Take a break from fighting crime and enhance, reflect, and refocus yourself with Daredevil, AKA Matt Murdock. Watch Daredevil: Born Again on @disneyplus."
Marvel is building up quite a library of meditation videos. A month ago, to the day, Marvel posted an 8.5-hour-long video of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in his yellow-and-blue "Deadpool & Wolverine" get-up, doing nothing for most of the video but breathing.
Unlike the Daredevil video, Jackman would occasionally change position in an homage to the iconic cover of 1982's "Wolverine" #1, flashing his claws with one hand and beckoning the reader closer with the other. The caption of the video reads, "April is National Stress Awareness Month, so breathe deep and feel your adamantium bones melt away. Watch Deadpool & Wolverine on @disneyplus."
Ironically, both Cox and Jackman are two of the biggest Marvel names left out of another really, really long Marvel video: the 5-hour video that revealed the cast of next year's "Avengers: Doomsday" via actors' chairs.
Cox recently reacted to his missing name during an interview with Collider, saying, "It's not there, is it? Listen, the way that information gets to us is the same way that it gets to everyone else normally. At least historically, that's been the case. Someone sent me the link. I looked for my name. It's not there. So, maybe one day..."
Of course, regardless of how many long meditation videos he stars in, it's tough to take Cox's word at face value. Along with Andrew Garfield, Cox famously fibbed about his presence in 2021's "Spider-Man: No Way Home".
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