Echo‑skaparen om att karaktären får egen serie: "Det kändes helt overkligt"

Marvel Cinematic Universe har under åren introducerat mängder av fans till mer obskyra superhjältar och karaktärer, inte bara på bioduken utan även i TV-format på Disney+. På senare år har karaktären Echo debuterat i MCU genom Hawkeye och därefter fått sin egen miniserie med samma namn. Därför är betydligt fler bekanta med Echo i dag, trots att hon är en av Marvels nyare hjältar.

Echo skapades i slutet av 90-talet av Joe Quesada och David W. Mack. När vi träffade Mack under Comicon Napoli kom samtalet in på Echo och hans "surrealistiska" upplevelse av att se karaktären i en spelfilmssatsning:

"Yeah, I started Marvel as a writer on Daredevil and they asked me to create a brand new character that became Echo, and I wrote that story, the first Echo story back in 1998. It was published in '99, and then 25 years later, there was a TV show where a real-life actress portrayed the character. It was very surreal to me.

I thought the actress did a fantastic job. Her name is Alaqua Cox, who portrays Echo, and first it was portrayed in the Hawkeye series. And there were sequences and even lines in the Hawkeye show that I had written 25 years ago, and it was amazing to see it brought to real life, like Echo, but also Echo and her father, and then they had... the cousin of Alaqua Cox played her when she was a child. So, it still looked like her as a child, and there were scenes where the child Echo is interacting with her father, and they were all from scenes I wrote, you know, 25 years ago. So, it was a, I haven't entirely got my head around it personally, but I enjoyed it. Yeah, I was fascinated by it."

Mack har även andra kopplingar till MCU-projekt, något vi också pratade kort om i intervjun där vi dessutom berörde hans långvariga och kanske mest välkända projekt Kabuki.