Charlie Cox Says DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Is "Even Darker" Than the Netflix Series

by · GeekTyrant

There’s a lot of excitement for Marvel Studios’ upcoming series Daredevil: Born Again, and Charlie Coxcontinued to build the hype saying that it’s going to be “even darker” than the Netflix series.

I know some fans were worried that the series would get Disneyfied and that the creative team would have to pull back on the hardcoreness of the character, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to be the case.

During EW‘s new preview of Daredevil: Born Again, Cox said: “The thing that we kept talking about was, this show has had the success that it’s had and has appealed to a very specific demographic because it’s one of the few superhero shows that is so dark and sinister at times.

“Vincent and I both felt like if you lose that, you are at risk of losing the identity of our show. So we really pushed for the show to remain geared towards an older audience and not dumbed down to kind of capture a wider net of people. I think in some ways it’s even darker than a lot of the stuff we’ve done in the past.”

According to showrunner Dario Scardapane, Marvel’s take on Daredevil was initially going to be more of a legal procedural, focusing more on Matt Murdock’s work as a lawyer and how that life operated alongside his work as a vigilante.

But, it was Cox and D’Onofrio who pushed to take the series to something much more similar to what the show had been over at Netflix.

Scardapane said: “It had been conceived as more of a legal procedural, and we really brought it back towards an action-based New York crime story. The real trick was to have the DNA of the old Netflix show, but then push it forward into something very new.”

In Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again, “Matt Murdock (Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.”

Cox previously talked about the tone of the series, saying: "We're continuing the darkness of the first series on Netflix. It is gonna be that dark and that intense. We worked our butts off to make it that way. So, we're excited about it because of that.

“As far as I'm concerned, the biggest question that I get asked the most is, is it gonna be dark like the original series? And the answer to that is a definite yes. It is dark. It is crazy. We do some things that are definitely a first for Disney+."

Producer Brad Winderbaumpreviously teased some of the action in the series, saying: “I’ll tell you, some of the most brutal action we’ve ever brought to the screen is coming in Daredevil: Born Again, which isn’t a horror show, but really it packs a lot of power and there’s a lot of visceral action, to say the least.”

He went on to tease how things have changed, saying: "These characters have matured, the universe is different than it was. Things have changed, society's changed. Matt and Wilson have changed.

“And their characters are gonna collide in ways we've never seen before. It's no longer enough to try to murder each other. There's a whole game of politics at play."

Daredevil: Born Again is currently being developed by directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who worked on both Moon Knight and Loki.

The series also stars Charlie Cox as Daredevil, Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/Punisher, and Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna-Fisk.

The cast also includes Margarita Levieva, Michael Gandolfini, Genneya Walton, Arty Froushan, Jeremy Earl, and more.

Daredevil: Born Again is set to arrive on Disney+ on March 4th, 2025.