Charlie Cox confirms he’ll return as Daredevil

Charlie Cox played Matt Murdock on three seasons of Daredevil, the first of Netflix’s Marvel series. Despite Daredevil and the other Marvel shows on the platform like Jessica Jones and The Punisher going over well with fans and critics, they were unceremoniously cancelled once Marvel’s parent company Disney got its own competing streaming service off the ground. For a while there, we despaired that we’d seen the end of Cox’s turn as the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen.

All that changed last December, when both Murdock and his archnemesis Wilson Fisk (played by Vincent D’Onofrio) made the leap to the MCU. D’Onofrio featured as the main villain in the season finale of Hawkeye, while Cox made a brief cameo appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home as Peter Parker’s lawyer. The doorway has been opened for more, but so far Marvel has kept things quiet.

But the situation continues to evolve. These Marvel shows are all slated to leave Netflix at the end of February, and we’ve just gotten word that they’ll appear on Disney+ in March (in Canada, anyway, and likely shortly afterward in other territories).

Charlie Cox confirms he’ll play Daredevil again

Might Daredevil or any of the other series return? Marvel Studios has a reputation for keeping its secrets, so we doubt we’ll be hearing anything solid until they’re good and ready.

That said, Charlie Cox dropped an interesting hint about the character’s future while he was out promoting his new crime drama series Kin. Speaking to RadioTimes.com, Cox pretty much confirmed that there’s something ahead for Daredevil in the MCU. “I know something,” he said, when asked about future plans for Daredevil. “I don’t know much, but I know there will be something else.”

Cox also touched on his appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home, recalling how Marvel contacted him about it in mid-2020. “I got a phone call saying, ‘Do you want to come back? Do you want to be in Spider-Man?’ and I was like, ‘Obviously, yeah! That would be amazing. I’m thrilled. I’d love to do that.’ They said ‘Great, we’ll be in touch.’ and then I didn’t hear anything for, like, two months! I did get to the point where I was like, ‘Did I dream this?’ – I definitely got to the point where I was, like, ‘I don’t know what’s gonna happen.’ But then I got a follow-up phone call.”

Thankfully, that phone call led to Cox’s return in Spider-Man: No Way Home. It was a great moment that stirred all sorts of hype among Marvel fans…but maybe not quite as much as you’d think. “It’s funny, I got so many text messages and so many calls about that moment in the cinema,” Cox said. “My nephew sent me a recording of everyone cheering. So I snuck into a movie theater near where I live and literally stood in the corridor… and, sadly, my experience was it was dead f**king quiet!”

"I was so disappointed – my wife was with me and she was recording me, because it’d be fun to have that moment of everyone cheering, and then… tumbleweed!"

Rest assured, we were cheering over here.

Daredevil will be coming to Disney+ in Canada in mid-March, and likely elsewhere soon after that. Until then, you can catch Charlie Cox in his new series Kin on AMC+.

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