Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again Already a Go
Marvel and Disney are putting their faith in the Man Without Fear. Daredevil: Born Again, the revival of the popular Netflix series starring Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, the titular blind superhero, is coming to Disney+ on March 4, 2025, and it’s easily the struggling streamer’s most anticipated Marvel show. (To be fair, its competition is Ironheart and Wonder Man, the former a guaranteed suckfest and the latter a big bag of who cares?) However, even something as potentially cool as getting more Daredevil comes with a sense of foreboding; the MCU is not what it once was, and its current movies and TV shows don’t have the same quality as the first three phases of the MCU did. A lot of this is due to the infusion of partisan or identity politics into the content, and there have been rumors that Daredevil: Born Again will follow suit. It’s also been a long, tumultuous road to get here, with Born Again having to be revamped after its initial idea – a lighter version of Daredevil that acted as a soft reboot of the Netflix series and jettisoned key supporting characters Karen Page and Foggy Nelson while keeping Daredevil off screen for half the season – was met with derision from fans. Bringing back Karen and Foggy, going back to the dark tone and themes of the Netflix seasons, and emphasizing crime-fighting action are great, but that this was even an issue in the first place raises concerns. Even the most hardcore fans are worried that Marvel will pull the rug out from under them after luring them in with all this good news.
But Marvel doesn’t seem to be worried. In an interview with Spanish language site Omelete, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige revealed that another season of Daredevil: Born Again has already been greenlit and will begin filming in February… before the first season premieres on Disney+. You can see Feige’s quotes translated from the Omelete interview courtesy of X account Agents of Fandom:
Kevin Feige assures that more Marvel Television/Marvel Animation series will be renewed:
“That starts with Daredevil: Born Again. We’re really excited to premiere the first season next year, when we’ll be filming the second season.”
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— Agents of Fandom (@AgentsFandom) November 9, 2024
Putting this much stock in Daredevil: Born Again makes a certain amount of sense. People love the Netflix show, and it’s the surest bet they’ve got on Disney+. I don’t know what their numbers are for the earlier seasons now that they got the rights to stream it from Netflix, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re better than those of the new shows despite the last season of Daredevil being six years old. And Disney+ needs a hit, as does Marvel, so they’ll want more Daredevil ready to go as soon as possible if Born Again is the hit they hope it will be. But the caveat is that Daredevil: Born Again will have to deliver; they can’t throw out their usual crap and expect people to embrace it in a haze of fond memories and hallway fights. This show needs to be good; great would be preferable, but the bare minimum is to have it approach the quality of the Netflix show. It has to be an involving story that doesn’t attack half their audience while insulting the intelligence of the other half. It has to be true to the characters from the older version of the show, not reinvent them for the “modern audience” hallucination. It has to maintain the dark tone, not stuff in jokes and self-aware comments that take people out of the story. At least on that last point, I think they’ve learned their lesson; they brought back Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson to play Karen and Foggy (who were originally going to have been killed off-screen, according to rumors) and hired one of the showrunners of The Punisher to make the tone darker. We’ll see what happens with the characterizations (no more dumb, goofy, easily defeated Kingpin) and the woke stuff. Daredevil is Marvel’s surest small-screen bet right now, and if they resist their natural instinct to screw it up, it can remain so.
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Yeah, this is absolutely the make-or-break moment for their Disney+ output. This is such a lay-up, and if they prove they can’t even get something gift-wrapped for them like Daredevil right, nobody’s gonna take a chance on any of their lousy shows anymore. Each season of Daredevil had different showrunners (it’s almost a miracle that they were all great and the quality was so consistent); I was hoping they’d get Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez from season 2, partly because it’s my personal favorite and partly because I’ve been a fan of Petrie’s since his Buffy days and always considered him underrated. I’ve got every finger and toe crossed, but I really don’t trust this studio anymore.
One of the best comic book shows ever made. Without the Netflix og team, I do not see Marvel coming up with anything nearly is good. In show form, they never have. This also comes after the incredible success of The Penguin.
To me, it’s a crime they didn’t poach anyone and everyone from that og Netflix team. I think this is the last hurrah, if Marvel embarrasses themselves on this one, they are gonna have to start selling off pieces to Netflix or someone else like even HBO.