Matt Murdock actor Chalie Cox was a guest at Wales Comic Con recently, where he answered a number of Daredevil-related questions from the panel host and audience.
Perhaps the most interesting development from the panel was the reveal that Cox has his arm in a sling. Hopefully, it's not a serious injury, and it won't affect the shoot schedule for Daredevil: Born Again, although it sounds as if cameras won't start rolling on the revival for quite some time.
Cox opened up the panel by stating that he couldn't go into detail on Born Again but that he was genuinely shocked by the phone call he received from Marvel, informing him that he was coming back.
"I really thought that ship had sailed, I thought it was over and it had been a couple of years [since the Netflix series had ended]. What I didn't know was that there was an embargo on [the character] and the amount of time- I think it was probably two years, the amount of time after the show was canceled before Disney and Marvel could approach us. I didn't know that, so I thought it was over."
"And Vincent, who plays Wilson Fisk, he and I would chat occasionally on the phone, and he said I'm sure they're going to bring us back. And I'd be on the phone like, 'this guy is delusional, he's got to let it go.' And then during COVID, I went out for a walk with my wife and when I got back there was a voicemail and it said 'My name's Michelle, I'm Kevin Feige's assistant, can you give us a call.'"
Cox went on to explain that Feige first told him that they didn't exactly know what they wanted to do with Daredevil but that they'd start with a cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home and a couple of episodes of She-Hulk.
When the panel turned to the Q&A portion of the event, a fan asked Cox about who he would want to have Daredevil "bounce off of" from past and present MCU heroes.
Cox replied, "I think this whole Marvel Cinematic [Universe], the decade or decade-and-a-half that it's been [around] where it's such a staple of so many people's entertainment consumption- a lot of that I think is a credit to Robert Downey Jr. and the work he did with that character. I almost think of Marvel as the house that Downey built. I was actually catching up on some of the comics and I was reading one from 2020 where Daredevil and Iron Man have a bit of a run-in together and I was thinking, 'That would be very cool.' I don't think that's possible because [Iron Man's] dead, but it's Marvel, who knows..."
Cox also named another deceased MCU Avenger as his personal pick, namedropping Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow and referencing their past relationship.
In regards to the comic that Cox is referencing, there are a couple of options to choose from, but one of the biggest developments between Murdock and Stark in 2020 occurred in Daredevil Vol. 6 #22 from Chip Zadarsky where Murdock asks Tony Stark to flex some financial might and help to get rid of some slumlords in Hell's Kitchen.
You can watch Cox's full 27-minute panel below.
Recently, reports revealed that Kevin Feige and his fellow Marvel Studios executives didn't like what they saw on the live-action Daredevil: Born Again TV series, so they brought in Dario Scardapane (The Punisher, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan) to replace Matt Corman and Chris Ord (Covert Affairs, The Enemy Within) as showrunners.
Furthermore, with less than half of the 18-episode order done, Marvel was claimed to be 'Frakensteining' what had wrapped before the actor and writer's strike, reorganizing what was already in the can and intermixing it with fresh material.
It's thought that the show's original 18-episode order could also be in jeopardy, following the creative revamp. Additionally, the overall tone of the show might shift as prior to the creative change, Born Again was also described as a slow-burning, legal procedural.
Moon Knight and Loki season 2 directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are in charge of the remaining 9 (-/+) episodes.