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Daredevil: Born Again Resuming Production on Monday; Fewer Episodes?

Marvel Studios' Charlie Cox & Vincent D'Onofrio-starring Daredevil: Born Again is reportedly set to resume production this Monday.

Along with the SAG-AFTRA & WGA strikes, Marvel Studios' Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock/Daredevil), Vincent D'Onofrio (Wilson Fisk/Kingpin) & Jon Bernthal (Frank Castle/Punisher)-starring Daredevil: Born Again saw its production impacted by a major creative change in direction in October 2023. That's when Dario Scardapane (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, The Punisher) was brought aboard as showrunner, and the co-directing team of Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead (Loki) was tapped to helm the remainder of the season – and apparently, to shift the show's creative focus. Now, The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that production on the series is expected to resume this coming Monday, January 22nd.

In addition, Philip Silvera has joined the team as stunt coordinator and second unit director. Why's that important? Because Silvera was also a stunt and fight coordinator on Netflix's Daredevil series – a move that like gives off the vibe that we can expect more street-level action moving forward. As for the whole Netflix/MCU situation, Marvel Studios embraced the Netflix series' canon in the lead-up to the debut of Echo by using footage from the series to establish Kingpin's backstory. The additions of Bernthal & Silvera help push the argument closer to the Netflix universe being canon – which might explain why rumblings about Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson reprising their roles as Karen Page and Foggy Nelson, respectively, have been getting louder. And if you're like us and you thought 18 episodes was a pretty hefty episode count for a single season in the era of streaming, it looks like we were tight. THR also reports that the 18-episode order will be trimmed down to more standard streaming fair (possibly two eight-episode seasons?).

Daredevil: Echo Post-Credits Scene Gives New Meaning to "Born Again"?

Without giving away too much, the final showdown between Maya Lopez (Alaqua Cox) and Kingpin finds Maya using the powers of her Choctaw ancestors to venture into Kingpin's mind to rid him of the pain & rage that's fueled him for so long. Okay, got that? Good… because that leads us to the mid-credits scene. Making a getaway to greener pastures on his private jet, a news report about the New York City mayoral race catches his attention. While the reporter discusses how the city is looking for someone who will fight for them, we see a look on Kingpin's face that says that he believes he could be the answer to NYC's problems. For those of you who are comics fans, you know that Fisk has already recently gone down that route post-"Secret Empire" in a storyline that saw Matt Murdock as deputy mayor and Luke Cage running for office (yeah, there was a lot going on).

But why is this situation so different? Because we don't know which Wilson Fisk wants to be mayor heading into Daredevil: Born Again. We knew what Kingpin we were dealing with pre-Echo, so it would be easy to write this off as just a mad power grab on Kingpin's part. But if all of that pain and rage is now gone, who are we dealing with now? Because "Born Again" takes on a totally different meaning if we're dealing with Fisk legitimately believing he can do right by NYC – that he can be his savior. Throw into that mix the possibility that what Maya did may not stick – maybe Fisk's pain and rage are just too great to stay gone forever. And now that we're thinking about it, having Matt Murdock not believing that Fisk has changed and continuing to target him could also be an interesting way to push Fisk back to his old, big-bad ways.

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