Disney+’s Daredevil Non-Revival Is Cost-Cutting ‘Corporate Shenanigans,’ Original Netflix Showrunner Claims
The man who helped bring Daredevil to live-action, small-screen life claims that Disney+’s non-revival “reboot” will keep the Netflix series’ creatives from getting their (financial) due.
Penned by Covert Affairs’ Matt Corman and Chris Ord and officially greenlit back in July 2022, Daredevil: Born Again has Charlie Cox again headlining as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, while Vincent D’Onofrio will reprise his own Marvel’s Daredevil role, as supervillain Wilson Fisk/Kingpin. (A Spring 2024 release date was very recently scrapped, and thus far not yet rescheduled.)
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Yet despite the involvement of both Cox and D’Onofrio, many involved in the Disney+ project have been careful (if at times clumsy) to frame Born Again as not “Season 4” of Marvel’s Daredevil but “an original series,” as it was touted in Marvel Studios’ original announcement.
When a member of the IATSE stagecraft union claimed on X that the retitling is “a [f–king] scam” designed to reset guild contract terms to Season 1 levels, original Marvel’s Daredevil showrunner Steven DeKnight affirmed, “It’s an old Disney scam where they slightly rename a series to reset contract terms back to first season. Needs to be addressed by all the guilds/unions and crushed!”
DeKnight later made clear, “I can’t wait to see Charlie Cox and the amazing @VincentDonofrio
reprise their iconic [roles]. But to claim this is a complete reboot and you don’t have to pay the original creatives is some corporate shenanigans, to say the least.”
TVLine has reached out to Marvel/Disney+ for comment.
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Daredevil: Born Again won’t differ in name only, though. Fisk’s wife Vanessa was quietly recast with TV vet Sandrine Holt, and neither of Matt’s closest confidantes, Foggy nor Karen, appear to have a presence.
And speaking about tonal changes to expect, Cox has noted that She-Hulk‘s version of his Man With No Fear was “quick-witted and funny and charismatic and carefree” — less brooding than he was on Netflix. And in Daredevil: Born Again, Cox said, Matt will again differ from the man we got to know over 40+ episodes of the Netflix series.
“This has to be a reincarnation, it has to be different, otherwise why are we doing it?” Cox posited. “My opinion is this character works best when he’s geared towards a slightly more mature audience. My instinct is that on Disney+ it will be dark, but it probably won’t be as gory.”
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