Charlie Cox returned to the Matt Murdock role, this time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, back in December in “Spider-Man: No Way Home”.
Shortly we’ll be seeing him again, this time in full Daredevil form, for an upcoming episode of “She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law”. But the big occasion of his return will be the “Daredevil: Born Again” TV series, which is on the way as part of Marvel’s fifth phase.
Pretty much everything about the series is under wraps with Cox, appearing at D23 over the weekend, saying the series won’t begin filming until next year and he has yet to see a script.
Talking to Extra TV about the revival, he was asked if this picks up where the third season left off:
“My feeling is, based on the title ‘Born Again,’ I think that the sense is it is a new beginning, it is going to be different, it is going to be totally different. It is going to be new stories, and new ideas.”
Cox said he talked with Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige where he was told this is a series on its own, rather than a fourth season of the prior one:
“It is a Season 1, it is not Season 4, so it is a whole new thing. Which I think is the way to go. If you are going to do it again, do it differently.”
One thing that will likely change is the tone, with Cox himself open to turning down the volume on the character’s darkness to better fir the MCU. Speaking to Variety, Cox says there is precedent in the comics for a lighter tone:
“There’s plenty of runs where there is levity. There’s lightheartedness. There is fun. I think with 18 episodes, you’ve got time to do a bit of both.”
“Daredevil: Born Again” has not set an air date beyond a rough Spring 2024 timeframe.
