Since 2021, Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock and Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin of Crime have shown up in various MCU TV shows.
We've seen the Man Without Fear in Spider-Man: No Way Home, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Echo, with Wilson Fisk appearing in the latter and Hawkeye. However, these two haven't shared the screen since Daredevil wrapped up on Netflix six years ago.
That's set to change in Disney+'s Daredevil: Born Again and, in an interview with TV Insider, D'Onofrio revealed that the revival originally featured no significant links to Daredevil.
"It originally wasn’t going to be at all, but now it’s a lot," the actor said of crossovers between the two. Cox chimed in to say there's now "a lot" of them, presumably meaning Foggy Nelson, Karen Page, Bullseye, and The Punisher were M.I.A. in the previous iteration of Born Again.
As for what led to the change, Cox said, "I think [it’s] the fans. I think [it’s] the studio as well."
"That’s a really fine balance to strike," he added. "If you’re going to remake a show and call it Season 1 and it was a successful show and it was kind of beloved, then you’ve got to do what people liked. But also you’ve got to have a reason for remaking it. So you have to change it up a bit. And that’s just a really fine balance to find."
"I think that they’ve done a beautiful job doing that," Cox teased. "And hopefully, the old fans – the O.G.s – will love it and also, we’ll maybe pick up a few more fans on the way."
As for what we can expect from his return as Daredevil, the actor said, "It’s still such a privilege to put that suit on and to still be the age that I’m at and still be able to play a superhero. I don’t take that for granted at all. My knees are a little bit more sore. My back and neck are struggling a little bit, but they’ll have to pry it off me at some points."
It sounds like Marvel Studios has done the right thing with Daredevil: Born Again and all signs currently point to it being the series Daredevil fans have been waiting for.
Still, we can't help but wonder what the previous iteration of the show looked like. Just how disastrous might it have been had original showrunners Matt Corman and Chris Ord been allowed to continue without Kevin Feige stepping in? Who knows.
Starring Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jon Bernthal, Margarita Levieva, Michael Gandolfini, Genneya Walton, Arty Froushan, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Wilson Bethel, Jeremy Earl, and Ayelet Zurer, Daredevil: Born Again premieres on Disney+ next March.