Daredevil: Born Again Showrunner Addresses Series" Late-Production Overhaul, Reveals He Shot 3 Episodes Worth Of Additional Material

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Showrunner Dario Scardapane and Marvel executive producer Sana Amanat discuss Daredevil: Born Again"s reshoots and explain why three episodes" worth of material had to be added to Matt Murdock"s first solo MCU series. Marvel Studios" Daredevil: Born Again is the spiritual sequel to Netflix"s three-season Daredevil show. After his brief appearances in Spider-Man: No Way Home and She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, Charlie Cox"s Matt Murdock stars in his own series, where he faces off against Wilson Fisk and Benjamin Poindexter, plus a new villain self-named "Muse".
In an interview with Collider, Daredevil: Born Again showrunner Dario Scardapane and Marvel Studios executive producer Sana Amanat were asked how much of the series" was rewritten and reshot. Scardapane explains that despite their quality, six episodes were reworked, and "three episodes" worth" of material was added in order to enhance "Fisk and Matt, a little more action, pathos". Amanat adds that the team "wanted to make it a bit darker and more intense and offer that connective tissue that just wasn"t quite there before" to make Daredevil: Born Again more faithful to Netflix"s Daredevil. Read Scardapane and Amanat"s full response below:

Dario Scardapane: "Quite a bit. Quite a bit lived. The thing is, and I think Sana can speak to this, they had that time during the strike to take a look at what they had, and those six episodes were super solid—I saw them way later. They were super solid, but the issue was bringing up the themes and feelings that we loved from the old show and context. I"ll say that over and over again. That first episode is the one that takes us into the run, and we needed to have those first 15 minutes of that first episode to set the stage.
What we ended up doing was the amount of additional material was essentially three episodes worth, and then quite a bit of interstitial material inside the body of the middle six. I feel like it was mostly enhancement, and it was really bringing up the stuff that we loved a little more—Fisk and Matt, a little more action, pathos. The show was there. It wanted to be something; we just had to do some things to draw that out."
Sana Amanat: "And again, credit to Matt Corman and Chris Ord. Those writers, some of which stayed on with us in this new writers’ room, really gave us, also, a naturalistic and real-world New York, as well, and that"s really what we wanted to build upon. But yes, like Dario said, it was elements where we wanted to pull on threads. We wanted to make it a bit darker and more intense and offer that connective tissue that just wasn"t quite there before, but that connective tissue to the previous show, of course, with our returning characters and telling the drama of who they are, almost seven to eight to 10 years later. We don"t know the exact timeline around that.)"

Source: Collider
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Daredevil: Born Again TV-MA Crime Action Superhero Thriller Adventure Release Date March 4, 2025 Showrunner Chris Ord Directors Michael Cuesta, Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Jeffrey Nachmanoff Writers Chris Ord Franchise(s) Daredevil, Marvel Cinematic Universe Cast See All