'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man' Release Schedule Finishes It Before 'Daredevil: Born Again'
Five weeks apart and they ain’t even touching each other. That’s wild.
At New York Comic-Con in October, Daredevil: Born Again stars Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio announced that the long-awaited series would premiere on Disney+ on March 4. About a week later, Marvel Studios released a sizzle reel for its output on the streamer, revealing release dates for the next ~14 months, ranging from Deadpool & Wolverine to Wonder Man, confirming Born Again’s date and officially revealing the date for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man to be January 29. It was widely assumed that because the audiences were starkly different, the latter an animated family show while the former grittier and adult-skewing with its violence, them overlapping would be okay even though Marvel Television isn’t really producing enough to truly be as year-round as envisioned. That’s not a them issue more than Disney de-emphasizing Disney+ original programming as a whole, though Marvel Zombies and Eyes of Wakanda are four or five episodes. Instead, the streamer is doing a weird to the January Marvel show again.
On January 9, 2024, Disney+ adopted the binge model on a Marvel Studios series for the first time. They (and Hulu, for once) released all five episodes of the Echo miniseries at once. Which, fine. So would the January 29 Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man start being a 2-episode premiere that Disney has indeed announced. That’s normal. But instead of the ten-episode season rolling out over nine weeks, maybe eight for a double-episode finale, they’ve decided to do it over four weeks. They’re achieving that by bundling the eight remaining episodes in pairs or trios as well. Episodes 3, 4, and 5 premiere on February 5. 6, 7, and 8 debut on February 12, and 9 and 10 finish the season on February 19. This stops short of being a continuous chain directly leading into Daredevil: Born Again, leaving February 26 as a single-week break or buffer. The saving grace in doing this is that the series was renewed for a second season quite a while ago already, so however this screws up hype and conversation surrounding the series won’t endanger it just yet. Maybe they’ll be more normal for sophomore year about how they release episodes.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man’s logline describes Peter Parker, here voiced by Hudson Thames, as “on his way to becoming a hero, with a journey unlike we’ve ever seen and a style that celebrates the character’s early comic book roots”. Jeff Trammell serves as head writer and executive producer while Mel Zwyer is supervising director. The series’s other executive producers are Brad Winderbaum, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt. It also features Zeno Robinson as Harry Osborn, Colman Domingo as his father Norman Osborn, Eugene Byrd as Lonnie Lincoln, Grace Song as Nico Minoru, Hugh Dancy as Otto Octavius aka Doctor Octopus, and Paul F. Tompkins as Bentley Wittman aka The Wizard. From previous reporting, Unicorn, Chameleon, Scorpion, Speed Demon, Tarantula, Rhino, Butane, and Doctor Strange will also appear, as will Cox and D’Onofrio as this world’s Daredevil and Kingpin. Their Sacred Timeline selves last appeared in Echo, the latter moreso than the former, which means they’re appearing in all three shows.
It was there that Kingpin’s political aspirations were established and Daredevil: Born Again will follow up on. Its logline describes “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 series also sees the returns of Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson, Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna Fisk, Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle aka The Punisher, 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 Feige, D’Esposito, 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. Daredevil: Born Again already had its second season built in when its 18 episode order broken up into two sets of nine. However it will have primetime premieres at 9 PM that Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man likely will not.
Source: ComicBook