For years now, Marvel fans have waited to see what exactly Marvel Studios planned to do with Daredevil. In recent years, we’ve had a few glimpses. Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock made a brief but thrilling appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home, proving himself once again to be a really good lawyer. Plus we got to see him be a really good fighter, too, in She-Hulk, where Matt and Jennifer Walters undertook some rough-and-tumble, both against baddies and between the sheets. But now the time has come – Daredevil is about to be Born Again at last, with an all-new Disney+ series picking-up where the hit Netflix show left off. Well, more or less.
“There was talk early on about reinventing the whole thing, to see if Matt was a slightly different person,” Cox tells Empire in our Andor Season 2 issue. “But it ended up more of a continuation.” By the sounds of it, Born Again will exist in the same continuity as the Defenders shows, providing context for everything to come. “A lot of the history follows on,” says Cox. “The relationships and dynamics set up in the previous seasons still exist.”
Most notably, the dynamic between Matt, and best pals Foggy (Elden Henson) and Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll). While the trio often had their differences across the Netflix show (largely owing to Matt’s nocturnal activities as the red-suited vigilante Daredevil), they’re reunited in Born Again – and, as established in the final episode of Daredevil Season 3, law outfit Nelson & Murdock is now officially Nelson, Murdock & Page.
“A few years have passed,” Cox explains. “In that time, Matt, Foggy, and Karen have found a pretty good rhythm.” But nothing disrupts that rhythm like the meddling of Vincent D’Onofrio’s terrifying Wilson Fisk, aka the Kingpin. “Matt’s made peace with his role both as a lawyer and a vigilante,” says Cox. “Then, of course, shit hits the fan.” Sounds like Hell’s Kitchen is about to need a really good lawyer all over again.
Read more about Daredevil: Born Again in Empire’s Ultimate 2025 Preview, led by Andor Season 2 – in the January 2025 issue. Pre-order a copy online here. Daredevil: Born Again comes to Disney+ from 5 March.