While the first season of Marvel Studios’ “Daredevil: Born Again” series was essentially a Frankenstein-style creation cobbled together from existing episodes and rewrites, the same won’t be true of the second.
Jesse Wigutow, an executive producer on the series, have offered some new details on the Charlie Cox-led superhero show which is expected to return on the Disney+ streaming service in March.
Speaking with Collider recently, he indicated that fans will get to see bigger stakes, scale and fights in the new season, building towards a major finale as Matthew Murdock and Wilson Fisk finally go head-to-head:
“It is a very big portrait that we’re telling, a big New York City story, crime, politics. Obviously, we have Mayor Fisk and all of the palace intrigue around him inside City Hall. All of it, I think, is really awesome.
What I take away most from the season — and we’re just going through cuts now, we’re about to embark on Season 3 — is that we told this really big story, it got very wide, and then we kind of drive it in the finale to really what matters most.
I think what people care about are these two characters and the conflict that they’re in, how deeply they hate each other, and how deeply they need each other. We really carve out all the stuff around them that we’ve built up, and it’s just the two of them, face-to-face, in a really, I think, satisfying climax.”
Wigutow adds that while Season 2 will close out the first season’s storylines, the third season goes in a new direction and is currently aiming to begin filming in the Spring:
“It is a new direction, and it is leaving a lot of what was built in [Seasons] 1 and 2 behind. We haven’t started writing anything. We’re reconvening in the next week or two as a creative trust in a writers’ room. Production targeted on a similar schedule to Season 2 would be sometime in spring.”
The series cast includes Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin, Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/Punisher, Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Fisk, Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Margarita Levieva as Heather, Genneya Walton as BB Urich, Nikki M. James as Kirsten, Clark Johnson as Cherry, and Michael Gandolfini as Daniel. The second season sees Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones returning while Matthew Lillard and Lili Taylor also join.
