'Daredevil: Born Again' Has No Further Objections, Releases Trailer
It’s a very good trailer for the series premiering March 4 on Disney+
It reportedly took a day longer than hoped, delayed by the devastating Palisades and Eaton wildfires, but what’s a day in a 7-year wait to get your show back? Marvel Studios and Disney+ have released the first trailer for Daredevil: Born Again, the continuation of the Daredevil series that ran on Netflix for three seasons from 2015 to 2018, and the culmination of reintroductory appearances for series stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock aka Daredevil and Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin in Spider-Man: No Way Home and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Hawkeye and Echo respectively. The series premieres on the streamer on March 4 with the 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific timeslot.
The logline reads “Matt Murdock (Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (D’Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.” The ending of Echo saw Fisk start to consider a mayoral run, and it seems now he’s already won. It is inspired by the recent “Mayor Fisk” storyline in the Daredevil comic, written by Charles Soule and Christos Gage, with art by Ron Garney and Stefano Landini. The trailer uses the diner chat between the two characters, cutting back and forth to some fight scenes for both, showing just how intact the intensity of the violence is. Murdock is back together with friends Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) and Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson), while apparently stopped his vigilantism. He’s gotten absolutely beat. But the devil’s work is never done. There’s a confrontational reunion with Frank Castle aka The Punisher played by a now very Keanu Reeves-looking Jon Bernthal. Matt believes in retribution, and is ready to scream for it.
Cox has described that he and D’Onofrio intentionally minimized the amount of scenes they share together so that when they are together it’s more meaningful. “I believe you have to be really careful when and how you bring these two people into the same room because we have to feel like when they meet, it is an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object,” Cox says. “It has to feel like it could and will explode. The more you bring us together with no consequence, the less that illusion can maintain itself.” He continues, “there's actually an episode later on in the season where in an original draft we had a conversation, and I brought this up. I said, ‘I worry that if you tell the story that we can have a conversation and walk away from it at this stage, we lose a lot of stakes.’ So they found a really cool way to not have us do that.”
“I think of Karen and Foggy as being the heartbeat of Daredevil,” Cox says, overjoyed at their return. “Without them, nothing that Matt does really has any emotional impact. The humanity and vulnerability that they brought to those characters allows me as Matt to really delve into the darkness.” D’Onofrio meanwhile says viewers should expect the unexpected. “Anything on our show is, nine out of 10 times, leading to something that's even bigger and crazier,” he remarked, speaking carefully to prevent spoilers from slipping. “For Fisk, this journey is a path to more control.”
The series also sees the returns of Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna Fisk and Wilson Bethel as Benjamin Poindexter aka Bullseye while adding Zabryna Guevara, Nikki James, Genneya Walton, Arty Froushan, Clark Johnson, Michael Gandolfini, Margarita Levieva and Jeremy Earl. Showrunner Dario Scardapane serves as an executive producer alongside Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Sana Amanat, Chris Gary, Christopher Ord, Matthew Corman, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Episodes are directed by Michael Cuesta, Jeffrey Nachmanoff, David Boyd, and Benson and Moorhead.
Sources: Variety, Deadline, Entertainment Weekly