Marvel’s Daredevil has been defunct for a few years now. In October 2018, the series premiered its third season on Netflix. And just a month later, Netflix canceled the fan-favorite show.
Ever since then, fans have begged for the series to return, asking Marvel to #SaveDaredevil. But over these last three years, Marvel has been quiet about what they plan to do with the character.
As the face Daredevil, actor Charlie Cox has been at the center of this. There have been plenty of rumors that he’ll be returning to play the character again — including in Spider-Man: No Way Home and Disney’s forthcoming Echo series — but he’s denied them.
But in a recent interview on SiriusXM, the actor finally did humor us all by imagining what it’d be like for his character to return in the MCU:
"What happens in the comics is a writer and an artist will team up for a run of a comic, so they’ll do 10 issues, 20 issues. If there was an opportunity for me to come back as Daredevil, whatever that would look like, I imagine it would be a reimagining of the character and the show. If they choose me to do it, there are going to be some elements that are of course the same. Or they might choose someone else and reboot it all over again."
Despite many fans pleading for Cox’s take on the character to appear in the MCU, he seems to think it might not be what it’s cracked up to be, if it happens at all:
"You’ve got to be careful what you wish for. You come back and it’s not as good or it doesn’t quite work or it’s too much time has passed. It doesn’t quite come together in the same way. You don’t want to taint what you’ve already got. If we never come back, you’ve got these three great seasons and our third season was our best-reviewed. So, the trajectory was up. I am tremendously proud and grateful for what we have."
A Daredevil return gone wrong?
If Charlie Cox did return as Daredevil, I know it would make so many Marvel fans happy. But I can understand why he would recommend caution.
Yes, a return would be epic. But it’s true, sometimes the creators don’t always get it right. That’s been a rare case in the MCU so far — the filmmakers have done justice to pretty much all the characters. But there’s always the chance that they could get things totally wrong, and Daredevil’s long-awaited return would be ruined.
At the same time, I happen to think all the hype surrounding his return to the MCU would overshadow any pitfalls. Seriously, if Daredevil ironed a shirt for the entirety of Spider-Man: No Way Home, I’m sure fans would go wild. (Just me? Okay.) It’s highly unlikely Marvel would blow a Daredevil comeback, and I think it’s about time he found his way back into the MCU.
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h/t The A.V. Club