Daredevil: Born Again Won't Be a Continuation of the Netflix Series
“It’s a perfect title.”
Daredevil star Charlie Cox says Daredevil: Born Again won’t continue the Netflix show.
During an interview with IGN at Disney’s D23 Expo, the 39-year-old Marvel actor confirmed that his upcoming MCU show won’t pick up where Daredevil left off.
“I don't think it means we're going to tell the Frank Miller story of Born Again in the comics,” he revealed. “I don't think it means that. I think it's — you know we made the [Netflix] show, it ended, years passed, and we're making another show. It's a perfect title.”
Charlie Cox starred in Netflix’s Daredevil show for three impressive seasons and was confirmed to return as Daredevil back last year.
He then made a surprise appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home — giving Peter Parker legal advice as his lawyer alter ego, Matt Murdock.
It was confirmed earlier this year that Charlie Cox’s Daredevil would be getting his own MCU series, and eventually Daredevil: Born Again was confirmed. But what does the title mean for the upcoming show?
“Born Again is iconically a Daredevil run in the comics and it's a great title for our show because we are doing this show again in a new way,” said Cox. “I think the show will be slightly tonally different — I don't know how yet — I haven't read anything yet. We're doing 18 episodes, that tells me that the structure and the way we're going to tell our story will be slightly different.”
The original Netflix show aired in thirteen-episode seasons, with Cox’s Daredevil also appearing in the eight-episode miniseries, The Defenders, alongside Mike Colter as Luke Cage, Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones, and Finn Jones as Iron Fist.
How different the upcoming MCU version of Daredevil will be compared to Netflix’s version remains to be seen. But with a different creative team and Kevin Feige holding the reins, it looks as though a different kind of Daredevil is on the cards.
And it won’t be based on the 1986 Born Again comic book run. After all, Season 3 of the earlier Netflix show loosely adapted that arc already.
Want to read more about Daredevil: Born Again? Check out all the new Daredevil: Born Again details from Disney’s D23 as well as what to expect from Daredevil’s next MCU appearances.
Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
