We get a new look at Charlie Cox a the Man Without Fear along with showrunner Dario Scardapane offering the violence of Daredevil: Born Again is insane.
Months before it was reported, I first told you that originally Daredevil: Born Again was a disaster but that Marvel and Kevin Feige were retooling the show. Then it was learned Feige fired the creative team, and the trades reported exactly as I said that Daredevil: Born Again was getting retooled. I also said Feige was making it more in line with the Netflix show.
What does the showrunner say about Daredevil: Born Again?
“Level of violence is way up”
Daredevil: Born Again is featured in the latest issue of Empire Magazine, showrunner Dario Scardapane revealed the violence is on a level not previously seen in an MCU Disney+ show (Moon Knight is probably the most violent):
“The level of violence is way up there for a Marvel/Disney show. I don’t think there’s anything else even in the ballpark.”
More than Netflix
Scardapane also says the violence is way more than Netflix:
“There’s a moment in this that is just absolutely batshit, and way past anything Netflix ever did.”
“Further in the darkness”
Vincent D’Onofrio, who returns as Kingpin offers more of the same (and fans are hoping for a better outing than what went down in Hawkeye):
“There’s a world in which you might think that if that show kept running, we’d be in this place eventually, or something like it. But we’ve gone further in the darkness, the action, the nastiness.”
Fresh approach
The showrunner also says he didn’t want Daredevil: Born Again to be more of the same:
“If you look at how it ends almost every season, they punch the shit out of each other, Kingpin goes to jail, we know he’s gonna come back. I didn’t want to do that. This dynamic is way more tense. There’s one scene between them in the first episode that lays it all out. Then we spend the next eight episodes throwing rocks at it.”
Release info
Daredevil: Born Again premiers on Disney+ on March 4, 2025. The series also stars Margarita Levieva, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Zabryna Guevara, Nikki James, Genneya Walton, Arty Froushan, Clark Johnson, Michael Gandolfini, with Ayelet Zurer and Jon Bernthal.
There is a lot of hope the series will start a new direction for the MCU which has suffered since the release of Captain Marvel back in 2019. The MCU movies have been big bombs at the box office and no one is watching the MCU shows on Disney+.
