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MARVEL studios television series Daredevil: Born Again premieres on Disney+ on March 4.
The first two episodes are set to follow blind lawyer Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), who leads a double life as a masked vigilante fighting for justice, while former crime boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) pursues his own political campaign as the mayor of New York City.
Eventually, the two find their past identities emerging, resulting in an inevitable clash.
The series is a revival and continuation of an earlier Netflix series titled Daredevil, which ran from 2015 to 2018.
In an interview, Charlie shared his perspective on the new direction of the series, for which he replaced the entire creative team, explaining that there was a ‘U-turn after the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike’.
“If we’re coming back after all these years, we don’t want to just do exactly the same thing,” Charlie said.
“Marvel looked at the episodes and knew it wasn’t quite working. After that, the production team shot a whole new pilot, and they reorganised what they had filmed to make it feel more like the show they had shot all those years previously. Given what a Herculean task that was, it’s very
impressive what they achieved,” he added.
Actor Vincent has also discussed the changes behind the scenes, and how thrilled he is about the final result.
“When we finally figured out how to do this show, it was so exciting, and to really play it the way that Charlie and I always wanted to continue. A lot of us involved in the first iteration were really yearning for a better way, and it worked out,” he added.
After the Netflix series’ cancellation in 2018, Charlie reprised his role for a brief appearance in the 2021 film Spiderman: No Way Home, while Vincent reprised his role for the Disney+ series Hawkeye which premiered in the same year.
