Everything to Know About Daredevil: Born Again

After the last of Netflix's Marvel series — Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, The Punisher, and Iron Fist — was canceled in 2019, it seemed like that corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was dead. Perhaps these folks could come back for the occasional cameo, but the odds of a proper revival seemed remote. And yet here we are, with the impending series premiere of Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+, which brings back most of the original series' main cast and more properly integrates the Devil of Hell's Kitchen into the greater MCU.

It's been quite a journey for this revival of the Daredevil series that ran on Netflix a decade ago. While the series was always ostensibly a part of the MCU, it stuck to its own little New York City shared universe with Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, The Punisher, and Iron Fist, and never directly interacted with any other part of the franchise. But that's all changed more recently, with this existing version of Daredevil making his big screen debut with a cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and with his nemesis Kingpin popping up in both the Hawkeye and Echo shows.

This Daredevil revival is, unsurprisingly, one of the more anticipated pieces of the MCU in 2025. Let's take a look at everything we know about it thus far.

Daredevil: Born Again latest news

Marvel's marketing campaign for Daredevil: Born Again really wants you to know that, despite being on the family-friendly Disney+, it'll be just as violent as you remember the Netflix series being. We've got a new 30-second teaser here which, amid a montage of carnage, flashes a very large "TV-MA" title card to reassure you that the revival won't be watered down at all. Check it out.

Daredevil: Born Again premiere date

Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 is currently scheduled to premiere with two episodes on March 4, 2025 at 9pm ET/6pm PT on Disney+, with the season consisting of nine episodes overall. A second season of nine additional episodes is already in the works, but we have no idea when that will drop.

Daredevil: Born Again trailer

The first proper trailer for Daredevil: Born Again features a lengthy chat between Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk, in which the Kingpin tries to convince Matt that he's actually different now. Shockingly, Matt doesn't believe him. But as delightful as it was to see these folks talking, the real fun is in the action — this trailer does not pull any punches. If you were worried that Disney's version of Daredevil would be less violent than the Netflix iteration, well, this trailer seems to put that concern to rest.

What is Daredevil: Born Again going to be about?

Daredevil: Born Again will take place a number of years after the end of Daredevil Season 3 — it will have to be enough time for half the population to be snapped away in Infinity War and then returned in Endgame, so we're talking more than five years. After his shenanigans during the events of Hawkeye and Echo, the Kingpin returns from his exile a somewhat changed man who is now the newly elected mayor of New York City. Matt Murdock, meanwhile, has given up his Daredevil persona and fights injustice in the courts. Somehow, this situation will lead to the two of them having a fistfight that will probably be fun to watch.

Daredevil: Born Again behind-the-scenes drama

When Daredevil: Born Again began production, it was intended to be a standalone reboot that would keep Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock and otherwise not talk about anything that had happened on the Netflix series. After six episodes had been filmed, the powers that be at Disney/Marvel changed their minds about what they wanted the series to be, and canned all the creatives who had worked on it. They then hired Dario Scardapane, a writer on the excellent The Punisher series, to take over as showrunner, with indie horror directors Justin Benson and Aaron Morehead to direct the remaining episodes and also reshoots for the ones that had already been filmed. Benson and Morehead previously directed four episodes of Loki Season 2 for Marvel.

What changed after this shakeup? Reportedly, this new Daredevil series is now much more like a sequel to the original Daredevil series than a reboot, with all the major cast members returning and a story that will follow up directly on those past events. Is it wise to take the shell of one story and try to use it to tell a different story? Probably not, but that's pretty much just Marvel's standard operating procedure these days, and sometimes it works in spite of itself.

Daredevil: Born Again cast

While the original plan was to leave almost everyone from the Netflix series behind, you can expect to see just about every remaining living major character. Not all of them, but they got most everybody who matters. And there's also one crossover character we know about: Yusuf Khan, the father of Kamala Khan, will pop up at some point. Arty Froushan will play one of Daredevil's comic nemeses, the corrupt government agent known as Bullet.

• Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil
• Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page
• Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson
• Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin
• Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna-Fisk
• Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/the Punisher
• Margarita Levieva as Heather Glenn
• Arty Froushan as Buck Cashman/Bullet
• Wilson Bethel as Benjamin Poindexter/Bullseye

Will Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and/or Danny Rand appear in Daredevil: Born Again?

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Marvel TV boss Brad Winderbaum weighed in on the possibility that the other Defenders from Netflix's Marvel shows might make appearances on the revived Daredevil series. In addition to their team-up series The Defenders and individual shows, each of the characters also appeared on the previous Daredevil series at one point or another, so they're an undeniable part of his backstory.

"I can't say much, but I'll tell you that it's so exciting to be able to play in that sandbox," Winderbaum said. "Obviously we don't have the unlimited storytelling resources like a comic book. If you can draw it, you can do it. It's dealing with actors and time and the massive scale of production in order to build a cinematic universe, especially on television. But I can just say that all those variables taken into account, it is certainly something that is creatively extremely exciting and that we are very much exploring. "

What does that mean? That fact that he says "exploring" in the present tense implies that they won't show up much, if at all, in Season 1's batch of nine episodes. But since Born Again is already set for a second season, the hope may be to bring them in properly later. That said, Charlie Cox has promised that there will be some fun cameos we don't know about, and all three of them would be prime candidates for that sort of appearance.

What to watch before Daredevil: Born Again

While Charlie Cox's version of Daredevil has been around the MCU for a long time, it has no meaningful connections to the rest of the franchise currently. Matt Murdock has made a couple cameos in things — She-Hulk and Spider-Man: No Way Home — and Kingpin was the secret villain at the end of Hawkeye and the main villain in Echo. The inclusion of Jon Bernthal's Punisher indicates that character's spinoff series may be relevant as well. 

But there's no reason to expect that Daredevil: Born Again will be a part of the "main plot" of the MCU, so the most relevant stories will just be the ones that these characters were in before: the Daredevil series, the Punisher series, Hawkeye, and Echo. That's a lot of TV, so a full rewatch probably isn't necessary, but you'll at least want to refresh your memory on those events before firing up Daredevil: Born Again in March.

And while Captain America: Brave New World is hitting movie theaters just three weeks before Daredevil premieres, Marvel rarely connects two new things released so closely together unless the reason for doing so is extremely obvious — such as when it needed to introduce Captain Marvel in her own movie six weeks before she played a key role in Avengers: Endgame. But there won't be any such connection between this Daredevil series and the third Captain America movie.

Where to watch Daredevil: Born Again

The series is a Disney+ exclusive. Here's more information on how to watch Daredevil: Born Again.