Charlie Cox says that Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 almost dealt with the MCU multiverse.
Marvel Television’s Daredevil: Born Again premiered on Disney+ in March 2025. The show sees Cox reprise his role as Matt Murdock after he previously starred in the Netflix Daredevil series, along with the 2017 crossover The Defenders.
What did Charlie Cox say about Daredevil: Born Again?
Appearing on Deadline’s Crew Call podcast, via The Direct, Cox revealed that, before the creative overhaul that occurred during the show’s production, Daredevil: Born Again was going to have Matt, Foggy Nelson, Karen Page, and more be “variant” characters.
He explained, “One of the things the original team wanted to do was they wanted to keep Vincent [D’Onofrio] and I. They wanted to keep us, [but] they didn’t want to alienate the audience who hadn’t watched the [Netflix] show. They wanted it to kind of be a reset. So there was a conversation about it being almost like a variant. You know, in the Loki show, we talk about these variants. It was almost like it was a variant–and we never said that–but it was almost like a variant. So it was another version of these characters existing in this world.”
Regarding why that didn’t pan out, Cox said, “That’s a valid choice, it’s a fun idea. The problem became that whenever I said something that was in contrast to what we’d shot in the past, people thought I was lying. They didn’t think I was a variant, they thought I was being disingenuous. It was a nice idea, it just didn’t pan out.”
Instead, Marvel made the Netflix series canonical to Daredevil: Born Again. A second season of the show is currently in the works and expected to arrive in 2026.
The first season of Marvel Studios’ Daredevil: Born Again, meanwhile, can now be streamed on Disney+ in its entirety.
