Charlie Cox says that Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 almost dealt pinch nan MCU multiverse.
Marvel Television’s Daredevil: Born Again premiered connected Disney+ successful March 2025. The show sees Cox reprise his domiciled arsenic Matt Murdock aft he antecedently starred successful nan Netflix Daredevil series, on pinch nan 2017 crossover The Defenders.
What did Charlie Cox opportunity astir Daredevil: Born Again?
Appearing connected Deadline’s Crew Call podcast, via The Direct, Cox revealed that, earlier nan imaginative overhaul that occurred during nan show’s production, Daredevil: Born Again was going to person Matt, Foggy Nelson, Karen Page, and much beryllium “variant” characters.
He explained, “One of nan things nan original squad wanted to do was they wanted to support Vincent [D’Onofrio] and I. They wanted to support us, [but] they didn’t want to alienate nan assemblage who hadn’t watched nan [Netflix] show. They wanted it to benignant of beryllium a reset. So location was a speech astir it being almost for illustration a variant. You know, successful nan Loki show, we talk astir these variants. It was almost for illustration it was a variant–and we ne'er said that–but it was almost for illustration a variant. So it was different type of these characters existing successful this world.”
Regarding why that didn’t cookware out, Cox said, “That’s a valid choice, it’s a nosy idea. The problem became that whenever I said thing that was successful opposition to what we’d changeable successful nan past, group thought I was lying. They didn’t deliberation I was a variant, they thought I was being disingenuous. It was a bully idea, it conscionable didn’t cookware out.”
Instead, Marvel made nan Netflix bid canonical to Daredevil: Born Again. A 2nd play of nan show is presently successful nan useful and expected to get successful 2026.
The first play of Marvel Studios’ Daredevil: Born Again, meanwhile, tin now beryllium streamed connected Disney+ successful its entirety.
Originally reported by Brandon Schreur astatine SuperHeroHype.