The upcoming Disney+ show Daredevil: Born Again brings the old team back together from Netflix's original Daredevil series, with Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) and Foggy Wilson (Elden Henson) all returning to fight the good fight. But so too is the original show's central villain: the all-powerful Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin, who's back with a vengeance and once again played by Vincent D'Onofrio.
The original Daredevil series ran for three seasons on Netflix. Garnering a dedicated audience, the show is regarded as one of the greatest Marvel projects of all time. Unlike a lot of what produced by Marvel Studios, the show was brutal, gruesome, and gritty, showing fans a side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe rarely explored onscreen. However, the show was sadly axed after Disney decided it didn't want any Marvel series debuting new episode anywhere other than on its own proprietary platforms.
Since that switch-over, Cox's Daredevil has made several appearances in the wider MCU, from being Peter Parker's lawyer in Spider-Man: No Way Home to showing up in She-Hulk and Echo, where Wilson Fisk also played a big role. Now, Daredevil will come back to our screens in Born Again:
In the new show, Fisk will be the mayor of New York City, quite a jump up from being a crime lord. “Anything on our show is, nine out of 10 times, leading to something that's even bigger and crazier,” D'Onofrio told Entertainment Weekly. “For Fisk, this journey is a path to more control.”
And while the stakes might be higher than ever, Charlie Cox makes it very clear that the show's emotional core remains unaltered. “I think of Karen and Foggy as being the heartbeat of Daredevil,” he explained. “Without them, nothing that Matt does really has any emotional impact. The humanity and vulnerability that they brought to those characters allows me as Matt to really delve into the darkness.”
There's one scene in the trailer above where Mardock and Fisk meet in a diner. The suspense is tangible. “I believe you have to be really careful when and how you bring these two people into the same room because we have to feel like when they meet, it is an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object,” Cox explains. “It has to feel like it could and will explode. The more you bring us together with no consequence, the less that illusion can maintain itself.”
The constant battling between Murdock and FIsk will no doubt hit a bioling point again, especially with the presence of Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, in the trailer. Daredevil: Born Again premieres March 4 on Disney+.