Netflix's Daredevil series ran for three seasons before being cancelled along with the rest of the streamer's Marvel-based shows, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, The Punisher and Luke Cage, back in 2018.
Marvel Studios' decision to reboot (though many view it as more of a soft relaunch) the Man Without Fear's small-screen adventures for Daredevil: Born Again was welcomed by the majority of fans, but it seems at least a few of the people who worked on the original series may not be quite so enthusiastic.
A crew member on the Netflix show Tweeted the following:
"I worked on all of the Marvel Netflix shows which all were cancelled in season two or three. Our contracts only give us full vacation pay (like 36 cents per hour worked or some shit) on season three shows. Four years of work I never got a raise or vacation pay. Like $20,000."
He continued, tagging showrunner Steven DeKnight:
"And not only did they cancel Daredevil once crew got full raise and holiday/vacation pay…. The Disney+ reboot is back to season one IATSE contract terms. It’s a [frick]ing scam. I wonder if @stevendeknight knows that!"
You can check out DeKnight's response below.
This is indeed something Disney has done in the past (rebranding several shows after their third seasons, including the likes of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Liv and Maddie, and Hannah Montana), but we're not sure Born Again really falls into the same category, since, as previously mentioned, Marvel Studios pulled all of their Netflix shows when they regained the full rights to the respective characters.
What do you make of DeKnight's take on the situation? Drop us a comment down below.
Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock), Vincent D'Onofrio (Wilson Fisk), and Jon Bernthal (Frank Castle/The Punisher) will all reprise their roles from the now defunct Netflix series, along with new cast members Michael Gandolfini, Nikki M. James and Sandrine Holt.
We recently learned that Holt will play Vanessa Fisk, while James is believed to be playing Kristen McDuffie. Gandolfini's role hasn't been confirmed, but there's speculation that he'll wither be playing a younger take on Fisk in flashbacks, or the villain's son.
The show will be 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.'"