Born Again’ Is Darker, Takes Place Six Years After Netflix Show

Daredevil: Born Again finally gives Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock his own series in the MCU, after three incredibly successful seasons of Daredevil on Netflix. The original show was a major hit with fans, and introduced audiences to Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll), Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson), and the terrifying Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio). While Born Again will honor many fan-favorite aspects of the original series, including its dark tone, Charlie Cox revealed the new show will also change and update some aspects of the character.
During an interview with SFX Magazine, Charlie Cox explained how Daredevil: Born Again will differ from the beloved original, and where the new show will feel familiar to long-time fans. “We had to honor certain things about the [original] show, certain tonal aspects, which wasn’t being done,” Cox said of Born Again’s re-writes. “For example, it wasn’t very dark and it is now. At times, it’s incredibly sinister, incredibly brutal. These characters work best when they live in that world.”

“But it doesn’t feel like exactly the same,” Cox continued. While Born Again will be tonally familiar to Daredevil fans, it is still a new show with a new identity. “The pacing is different. The identity has shifted.” Another way Born Again will bring the character into a new era is through a major time jump. “It’s six years later,” he revealed.
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Is a “Hybrid” Show

To many fans, Daredevil: Born Again is an unofficial fourth season of the original show — which ended in 2018. Charlie Cox explained that the description is half accurate, calling Born Again a “hybrid” between Season 4 of Daredevil, and Season 1 of the new series. “The reason it feels like a hybrid of a season four and a season one is because enough time has passed where you can allow for enough of a reset and things don’t need to be explicitly on camera,” Cox explained. In Born Again, we rejoin Matt Murdock as he’s going through a crisis of faith about his work as Daredevil.

“Matt has come to the realization that maybe he underestimates collateral damage, and despite all the good he’s been trying to do, how much has it actually worked? How much has just spawned more problems?”

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Matt Murdock will be trying to find a balance between his work as the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen, and his day job as a lawyer, with his best friends Karen Page and Foggy Nelson. “Maybe he needs to put more of his energy into the work he does with the lawyer and helping people out in a legal way,” Cox said. “There’s a scene where he meets with Kingpin, and they say, ‘You stay out of my way, I’ll stay out of yours, we won’t have any problems.” However, Wilson Fisk spends the season pushing Murdock’s boundaries, and testing his moral limits, as Cox explained:

“The rest of the season is a collision course between those two people pushing boundaries and forcing each other to cross lines they don’t want to cross.”

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