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Charlie Cox has a busy year ahead as most of it will be taken up shooting Daredevil: Born Again, although he doesn’t yet know what the show entails.

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Daredevil: Born Again was not exactly a surprise announcement, with Charlie Cox’s return to the role of Matt Murdock having already happened in Spider-Man: No Way Home. However, no one expected the new Daredevil MCU series to get an 18-episode run, not even, it seems, Cox himself. Although it is still some time until we see the new Daredevil show hit Disney+ in 2024, it looks like Charlie Cox is going to be busy filming the show for not just part of 2023 but the vast majority of it.

While speaking to NME recently, Cox was asked about Daredevil: Born Again and his expectations for it. A lot is riding on the series, with fans of Netflix’s Daredevil eager for the new show to pick up in many ways where the old one left off. However, what the new series will entail is something Cox currently appears to know very little about. He said:
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“They said to me, ‘We’re going to be shooting in 2023’. I said, ‘Great, when?’ They said, ‘All 2023’. I start shooting in February and finish in December. I’m fascinated to discover why they’ve chosen to do 18. I’m imagining there’s going to be an element to it that is like the old-school procedural show. 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. If that’s done right and he really gets his hands dirty with that world… I think there’s something quite interesting about that, to spend a lot of time in a superhero’s day-to-day life and you really earn the moments when he suits up.”

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As part of Netflix’s Defenders Saga, Daredevil was a brutal blood-bath of a show, and fans would love to see more of the same when Daredevil: Born Again hits Disney+ in a couple of years’ time. However, there has been no real indication yet as to what audience the new series will aim for. Prior to the confirmation that Deadpool 3 will be R-rated, it was unclear if any MCU projects would ever push the envelope beyond PG-13, but things have been changing a little behind the scenes. According to Cox, he feels that Daredevil: Born Again will be a mature show, but possibly not as extreme as his previous run. He said:

“This has to be a reincarnation, it has to be different, otherwise why are we doing it? 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. I would say to those people [expecting a continuation of the Netflix series], we’ve done that. Let’s take the things that really worked, but can we broaden? Can we appeal to a slightly younger audience without losing what we’ve learned about what works?”

Charlie Cox will next appear in the Disney+ series Echo, with Daredevil: Born Again following soon after.