Earlier today, THR published a piece claiming that Marvel Studios is planning a massive overhaul of the upcoming Daredevil: Born Again Disney+ series, but one of the show's cast members now appears to have cast doubt on the report.
According to the trade, Marvel execs reviewed some footage from the show while production was paused during the strikes, and decided that a "significant creative reboot" was in order. Head writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman, along with directors for the remaining episodes, were let go, and Kevin Feige is said to have signed-off on a pretty major course-change.
A fan decided to use this opportunity to dig up one of Vincent D'Onofrio's (Wilson Fisk) old Tweets expressing his excitement at being a part of the project, and the actor responded. While he doesn't outright deny anything in THR's report, he does seemingly call at least some of the details into question.
Check out D'Onofrio's response for yourselves below, and let us know what you think.
There's a chance D'Onofrio is simply downplaying things here, or course, but it will be interesting to see if anyone else involved with bringing Born Again to the screen weighs in.
The show will be (or was going to be, anyway) loosely based on the '80s Marvel Comics series of the same name by Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli, but is not expected to be an overly faithful adaptation. Despite some significant changes to the story, "Daredevil versus Wilson Fisk, aka the Kingpin, remains the focal point."
Born Again will be PG-13, but Marc Jobst, who helmed some key episodes of the Netflix show, 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," he said in a recent interview. "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.'"