If you raised an eyebrow (inside your cowl) when it was introduced that Disney+’s Daredevil: Born Again could have an 18-episode season, Charlie Cox was intrigued proper together with you.
“I’m fascinated to discover why they’ve chosen to do 18,” Cox, who did 13-episode seasons for Marvel’s Daredevil on Netflix, informed NME.
“I’m imagining there’s going to be an element to it that is like the old-school procedural show,” he ventured. “Not necessarily case-of-the-week, but something where we go really deep into Matt Murdock the lawyer and get to see what his life is like…. I think there’s something quite interesting about that, to spend a lot of time in a superhero’s day-to-day life and really earn the moments when he suits up.”
In the meantime, Cox — who has not but seen a single script for the revival collection (or kinds) — is on the brink of work, quite a bit. “I start shooting in February and finish in December,” he shared, with Daredevil: Born Again penciled in for a Spring 2024 launch (as a part of Phase 5 of the MCU).
Penned by Covert Affairs’ Matt Corman and Chris Ord and formally greenlit again in July, Daredevil: Born Again has Cox once more starring as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, whereas Vincent D’Onofrio will reprise his personal Marvel’s Daredevil position, as supervillain Wilson Fisk/Kingpin. Margarita Levieva (Revenge), Sandrine Holt (American Gigolo) and Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark) are all rumored to even be part of the forged.
Cox informed NME it was a few years in the past when Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige referred to as to ask him to hitch the MCU, on condition that Netflix’s iteration of The Man With No Fear (like Jessica Jones, Luke Cage et al) have been all the time saved greater than arm’s size from the larger big-screen image.
Since then, Cox has cameo’d as Matt in Spider-Man: No Way Home and appeared in a number of episodes of this summer time’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
Cox famous that, being a comedy, She-Hulk‘s model of Matt was “quick-witted and funny and charismatic and carefree” — much less brooding than he was on Netflix. And in Daredevil: Born Again, he’ll once more differ from the character we bought to know over 40+ episodes of Netflix collection.
“This has to be a reincarnation, it has to be different, otherwise why are we doing it?” Cox posits. “My opinion is this character works best when he’s geared towards a slightly more mature audience. My instinct is that on Disney+ it will be dark but it probably won’t be as gory.”
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