‘Daredevil’ Director Alex Garcia Lopez Breaks Down That Insane Prison Fight

In the episode, Murdock uses Foggy’s ID to get access to a prison in hopes of speaking to a group of gangsters for more insight on Fisk’s plans. He gets drugged by someone on Fisk’s payroll, kicking off a brutal 11 minute fight scene where the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen has to fight his way through prisoners and guards. The setting quickly erupts in a riot, and Murdock narrowly escapes out the prison gates and into a taxi cab.

Most impressive about this scene is that it is all accomplished in one filming take, without any edits.

We caught up with the director of the episode, Alex Garcia Lopez, who broke down everything that went into making that scene work from a technical aspect, the emotion and brutality driving the scene, and how he and the crew were able to pull it off.