The third season of Daredevil landed back on October 19th, 2018 and it was barely a month later that we learned that the series was canceled – with other properties from the deal also finding themselves canceled. The property had been pretty quiet since then, though lead actor Charlie Cox appeared in Spider-Man: No Way Home as Matt Murdock while Vincent D’Onofrio showed up in the Hawkeye TV series as Kingpin. The three seasons then started on Disney+ as of March 1st, 2022 and a new series was announced with Daredevil Born Again.
The series was in production before the strikes hit in the summer of 2023 and the pause created a new change as new writers and directors came onto the project. This looks like a combination of things unfolding because the schedule has obviously fallen apart and commitments to other projects may have pulled people away. What we’re hearing is that the show, which had less than half the episodes shot, will move away from being more of a procedural and more of a serialized focus while utilizing what it can from what’s been filmed.
With all of the changes to it, we knew previously that the show was planned for a Marc 4th, 2025 debut for the first part of this run that will have nine episodes total. With that coming up in a few months, the first formal trailer has now arrived.
Dario Scardapane has come on board to serve as the showrunner for the project and he comes from working on The Punisher for Netflix and Jack Ryan for Prime Video. And it looks like he’s got a new solid directorial team coming on with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead of the second season of Loki to direct it.
Plot concept: Just when Matt thinks he is bringing order back to the city, new forces are rising in Hell’s Kitchen. Now the Man Without Fear must take on a new adversary in Frank Castle and face an old flame – Elektra Natchios.
Bigger problems emerge when Frank Castle, a man looking for vengeance, is reborn as The Punisher, a man who takes justice into his own hands in Matt’s neighborhood. Meanwhile, Matt must balance his duty to his community as a lawyer and his dangerous life as the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen, facing a life-altering choice that forces him to truly understand what it means to be a hero.
