Netflix's Daredevil series was cancelled after three seasons back in 2028, but at least three actors (that we know of) - Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock), Vincent D'Onofrio (Wilson Fisk) and Jon Bernthal (Frank Castle) - will reprise their respective roles for the upcoming Disney+ MCU reboot(?), Daredevil: Born Again.
While Netflix's take on the Man Without Fear wasn't particularly extreme, it was far from a family-friendly show. Even putting the occasional bouts of surprisingly brutal violence aside, it maintained a pretty dark, grim tone for the most part - a far cry from the usual Marvel Cinematic Universe fare.
Will characters like Daredevil, The Punisher and Kingpin be able to thrive in a PG-13 environment? That very question was put to One Piece director Marc Jobst, who helmed some key episodes of the Netflix show, and he simply doesn't believe Cox, D'Onofrio and Bernthal would have agreed to return if they didn't think it was going to work.
"So I’ve got no idea what they’re doing and how they’re approaching the Disney version of those worlds. I can’t imagine that Charlie, Vince and Jon would sign up for something that they felt was anodyne. They just wouldn’t do it. So in some form or another, Disney must have persuaded them to say, 'This is a journey worth coming on.'"
"The Marvel characters, if you ground them, if you dimensionalize them, if you give them a human frailty — and I don’t mean weakness — then the audience can believe them. If you just have them flying off into the sky without any kind of sense of being a human being, then it just looks a bit PG-13 or whatever," he added.
"In many ways, I came into storytelling because I think stories teach us how to be human. If you take a character and you put an obstacle in their way, then you want to see how that character overcomes that obstacle, so you can learn from that character and apply that lesson to your own life."
Cox already made his MCU debut as Daredevil in Spider-Man: No Way Home, before returning for She-Hulk as a noticeably more light-hearted interpretation of the character. D'Onofrio, meanwhile, showed up as the Kingpin in Hawkeye.
We recently learned that Daredevil: Born Again had been taken off Marvel Studios' Disney+ slate, but we should get an update as soon as the strikes come to an end.
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