Charlie Cox as Daredevil in a season two promotional photo.

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by Charlie Cox back to Daredevil is still quite fresh, all things considered, and Daredevil: Born Again is set to give it a big comeback in its own right. Although there’s still a year to go and it’s changing (at least), news of Matt Murdock’s semi-new start is start to flow ort as production is expected to start later in the month.

By the hollywood journalistthe pilot episode of born again will be helmed by Michael Cuesta. He is above all a television director who has managed episodes of shows as Elemental, Blue Bloods, And Dexter, and several of them whose pilots he directed. But he has also made films, the most recent of the group being that of 2017. american assassin And kill the messenger in 2014. Similar to other recent MCU shows like Ms. Marvel And moon knight, the wait for born again is it the directors will helm different blocks of its 18-episode first season.

In that same report, THR revealed that Vanessa Fisk, wife of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin, will be recast. Ayelet Zurer will not be returning to the role she originally had in the three-season Netflix show; instead, Sandrine Holt (who was sent back to December 2022) will play Vanessa. Holt is best known as Oksana in The extent by SyFy (later Prime Video), and most recently appeared in AMC’s You better call Saul. For now, this marks the first official overhaul of Netflix’s jump from the MCU. And according to the schedule of others ex-Marvel actorschances are it won’t be the last.

Starring fellow MCU Netflix alum Jon Bernthal and newcomers Michael Gandolfini, Nikki M. James, and Margarita Levieva, Daredevil: Born Again will arrive on Disney+ in 2024.


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