- First Daredevil: Born Again trailer revealed
- Series set five years after Netflix series
- Show coming to Disney+ in March 2025
Daredevil: Born Again is almost here with the show’s first trailer finally making its way online.
The show also finally secured a release date and audiences don’t have to wait long to return to Hell’s Kitchen.
Fans were rightly gutted in 2018 when Netflix axed production on their popular take on sight-impaired lawyer-turned-night-time-vigilante Matt Murdock.
The streamer’s decision was only heightened due to the character’s fully fleshed-out world. Spin-offs like The Punisher with Joe Bernthal, Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones and Mike Colter’s Luke Cage followed in its wake.
Thankfully, a light at the end of the tunnel emerged in 2021. Marvel boss Kevin Feige revealed that Charlie Cox’s Murdock was to become part of the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.
With that, Daredevil truly was born again. Read on to discover everything we know about the character’s impending return…
Daredevil: Born Again release date
The new Daredevil show will debut on Disney+ worldwide on 5 March 2025. The show will consist of nine episodes, with a second series already in the works.
This release date news was revealed during New York Comic-Con in late 2024. Here, stars Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio, AKA Kingpin Wilson Fisk, surprised fans during a panel discussion about the show.
Hosted by Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski, Daredevil: Born Again series producer and Marvel Studios production and development executive, Sana Amanat, gave panel attendees a sneak-peak at the upcoming series before welcoming Cox and D’Onofrio on stage and breaking the release date news.
Is there a trailer for Daredevil: Born Again?
Yes, the first trailer for Daredevil: Born Again landed in mid-January 2025. Watch it above.
It gave us our first proper look at Disney’s continuation of Netflix’s hit superhero show, teasing Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk’s latest encounter.
Before this arrived, a short trailer teasing Disney and Marvel’s upcoming slate of projects made its way online and shows snippets of the new show.
Watch it below:
Not long after this was made public, one of the show’s stars shared a short teaser on their personal X account.
Tagging the main Daredevil account alongside details of the show’s release date, the show’s big bad D’Onofrio shared a short, 15-second clip in mid December.
He accompanied it with a line from Kingpin’s now-infamous “When I was a boy…” speech.
Watch it below:
@Daredevil Born again.
— Vincent D'Onofrio (@vincentdonofrio) December 14, 2024
March 4 th 2025.
@DisneyPlus
When i was a boy… pic.twitter.com/KYU0jiz7i5
Who is in the cast?
Cox will reprise his role as Murdock – a sight-impaired lawyer who spends his nights prowling the rough streets of Hell’s Kitchen as the Daredevil.
Meanwhile, D’Onofrio will be back as his vicious adversary Fisk AKA the Kingpin. Together, the duo first appeared in Netflix’s own Daredevil series which ran on the streamer for three seasons between 2015 and 2018 before meeting an untimely end.
In 2021, Marvel president Feige confirmed that both stars would return in a new series designed to bring the characters into the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The pair are joined by Murdock’s Netflix series law firm co-workers Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson and Deborah Ann Moll as Karen Page.
Bernthal’s Punisher AKA Frank Castle is also back, as is Ayelet Zurer as Fisk’s wife Vanessa.
Meanwhile, the show will feature appearances from Margarita Levieva as Murdock’s love interest Heather Glenn, The Many Saints of Newark’s Michael Gandolfini as newcomer Daniel Blade and Wilson Bethel as psychopathic FBI agent Benjamin ‘Dex’ Poindexter.
Former MCU star Mohan Kapur is starring as Yusuf Khan, while the supervillain known as Muse is also in the series.
Is Daredevil: Born Again part of the MCU?
Yes – Daredevil: Born Again is now part of the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Since the show was first announced, Cox has made a handful of appearances in the studio’s big and small screen output, most notably during brief moments in Spider-Man: No Way Home and the Disney+ series She Hulk: Attorney at Law.
Cameos aside, Daredevil: Born Again will be the character’s first solo feature at his new Marvel home and part of Phase Five of the studio’s wider output.
Speaking to Empire in November 2024, Cox explained that the show will very much be a continuation of its Netflix counterpart.
“There was talk early on about reinventing the whole thing, to see if Matt was a slightly different person,” he told the outlet, “but it ended up more of a continuation.”
“A lot of the history follows on,” he added. “The relationships and dynamics set up in the previous seasons still exist.”
What is the plot?
Despite being in production for a long while, little is known about the plot for Daredevil: Born Again.
Disney and Marvel’s official series synopsis is short and sweet, primarily setting up the basic character details while avoiding any concrete nuggets about what fans can expect from Daredevil’s latest outing.
It reads: “In Marvel Television’s Daredevil: Born Again, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent 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.”
In December 2024, it was confirmed that Daredevil: Born Again will be set five years after the events of its Netflix counterpart.
Originally, the series was devised by series creators Christopher Ord and Matthew Corman serving as its head writers, with reports suggesting the duo’s initial take was more episodic and lighter in tone than what had come before.
Despite starting production in New York in early 2023, Marvel completely overhauled the show after the 2023 writers’ strike. They hired show co-creator Dario Scardapane and directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson to take it in a new, grittier direction more closely connected to its Netflix counterpart.
Shortly afterwards, Marvel confirmed a second series of Daredevil: Born Again was in the works.
During Brazil’s D23 in November 2024, Feige commented on the show’s future in an interview with the pop-culture outlet Omelete.
“We’re really excited to premiere the first season next year, when we’ll be filming the second season,” confirmed the MCU boss. “We like the idea of developing series for multiple seasons – after all, that’s one of the coolest things about television.”
Daredevil change up
Speaking to Collider, Cox confirmed that Marvel’s new series will indeed share DNA to Daredevil’s Netflix exploits – specifically in its use of one-shot takes known as ‘Oners’ – something Daredevil’s original series became famous for.
“There are different types of oners. So far, we’ve done three oners that are memorable,” explained the star. “There’s one in episode 2 of season 1, which is a true oner. We shot it until we got it perfect, and there are no cuts in that one shot. The camera moves around, films everything, and if anything doesn’t work, we do it again. It takes a lot of preparation. You have to dedicate at least a day or two days.”
He continued, adding: “There’s something called ‘Texas switching,’ where, without cutting the camera, me and my stunt double, or Vincent and his stunt double, are switching places so that my stunt double is doing the things that I can’t do, and I’m back into the stuff that I can do when the camera’s on my face and stuff. But you don’t notice it.
“A few years have passed”
“We did a similar one in season 3, episode 4. Season 3 in the prison. There’s literally a moment where I’m kicking someone on the floor, and my foot is in camera, someone yanks me out from behind, and the next foot that comes in was Chris’, my stunt double’s foot. It’s really fun. The technicality of it is awesome.”
Speaking to Empire, Cox shed some more light on the show’s timeline: “A few years have passed,” said the actor.
“In that time, Matt, Foggy, and Karen have found a pretty good rhythm.” “Matt’s made peace with his role both as a lawyer and a vigilante.
“Then, of course, sh*t hits the fan.”
Speaking to SFX magazine in early 2025, “There is more fun in the moments with these characters and a lot less navel-gazing than before,” he revealed.
“The earlier show, at its best, was fantastic. At its worst, it was two characters in a room talking about what a hero is. I felt that had been done. I’m not taking swipes. I just didn’t want to hear characters grousing about their lot in life. I wanted to see them doing things.”
He also teased a darker tone “It has elements of The Sopranos and King Of New York,” added Scardapane. “There’s a feeling for those classic ’90s crime tales. It has a pace and a scope that, for a lot of reasons, Netflix wasn’t able to do. They were very dark, cinematically, not necessarily story-wise, although there were some dark elements. We’re much darker.”
