Matt Murdock will have his hands full protecting the people of New York City in the upcoming Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again . Charlie Cox returns as Murdock/Daredevil, the role he originated for three seasons on Netflix’s Daredevil . While the spirit of the blind crimefighter will remain the same, Daredevil enters an entirely new universe full of new challenges in Born Again .
Marvel Studios’ Head of Streaming, Television and Animation Brad Winderbaum compared Cox’s return as Daredevil to another revived show, X-Men ’97 . “ Daredevil is incredible. It’s similar in some ways to X-Men ’97 , because it’s reviving something that the fans love, but it is taking it in a new direction,” Winderbaum said on The Official Marvel Podcast .
“These characters have matured. The universe is different than it was. Things have changed.
Society’s changed.” Since returning to the MCU, Cox’s Daredevil has appeared in Spider-Man: No Way Home , She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and Echo . Besides Cox, actors reprising their Netflix roles for Born Again include Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin, Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/Punisher, Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Elden Henson as Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, Wilson Bethel as Benjamin “Dex” Poindexter, and Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna-Fisk.
With Kingpin, Winderbaum mentioned that the crime lord will go head-to-head with Daredevil , both physically and politically. “Matt and Wilson have changed, and their c.