Daredevil star Charlie Cox returned to portray his Netflix/Marvel character in the MCU reboot series Daredevil: Born Again, and as fans who followed along in the development of the series know, it was a rocky road getting to production.
We ended up with a great season, but when the show’s first hired writers were canned, we were unsure if the studio was going to be able to stitch together a solid story that paid homage to the original content and moved the characters forward in the established Marvel Universe.
In a recent interview with Deadline’s Crew Call podcast, Cox and Born Again showrunner Dario Scardapene sat down to discuss the Disney+ series. When asked about the show’s retooling, Cox explained the original plan to have Foggy Nelson killed off-screen.
While delving into the topic, the actor revealed Born Again was originally supposed to take advantage of the variants concept introduced in the Loki TV series (at the 9:40 mark):
“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. They didn’t want to alienate an audience that hadn’t watched the show.
So, they wanted it to kind of be a reset. So there was a kind of a conversation about it being almost like a variant, you know, in the ‘Loki’ show, we talk about these variants. It was almost like a variant; and we never said that, but it was almost like a variant. So, it was another version of these characters existing in a world.”
Cox then explained why the concept didn’t work, explaining:
“That’s a valid choice, it’s a fun idea. The problem became that, we found that, whenever I said something that was in contrast to what we had shot in the past, people thought I was lying. They didn’t think it was a variant; they thought I was being disingenuous. It was a nice idea, it just didn’t pan out.”
You have to be careful when writing a story that includes multiversal timelines and variant characters. It is so easily convoluted, and tricky for viewers to keep straight. I think taking a more straightforward approach was the right decision.
All episodes of Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 are available to stream now on Disney+.
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