There will probably be at the least one acquainted title connected to a brand new face when Disney+’s Daredevil revival-of-sorts arrives in Spring 2024.
Written and executive-produced by writing duo Matt Corman and Chris Ord (Covert Affairs), the 18-episode Daredevil: Born Once more will reunite Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio as arch rivals Matt Murdock/Daredevil and Wilson Fisk/Kingpin.
Cox starred because the titular character in Netflix’s Marvel’s Daredevil for 3 seasons (from 2015-2018). In that sequence’ finale, Matt struck a deal to guard Fisk’s spouse Vanessa whereas Wilson was in jail. In flip, the incarcerated crime boss wouldn’t reveal Matt’s vigilante id.
Ayelet Zurer with D’Onofrio
On the Netflix sequence, Ayelet Zurer (Shedding Alice, Moonhaven) performed Vanessa. However our sister website THR just lately and quietly revealed that TV vet Sandrine Holt — whose Daredevil: Born Once more casting, although not her position, was leaked again in December — is in reality enjoying Vanessa on the Disney+ sequence.
Holt in A&E’s ‘The Returned’
The switcheroo just isn’t fully unheard-of, seeing because it has been effectively reported that Daredevil: Born Once more isn’t following the precise identical incarnations of the characters from the Netflix sequence, nor the precise identical continuity. That stated, this does mark the Disney+ sequence’ first “recast,” all as followers wait to see if Daredevil: Born Once more will characteristic variations of Matt’s BFFs Karen Web page and Foggy Nelson, who have been performed on the Netflix sequence by Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson. (Woll in assorted 2022 interviews avowed her curiosity in persevering with Karen’s story, however as of October, at the least, stated the telephone has but to ring).
TVLine has reached out to Zurer’s rep for remark.
The Daredevil: Born Once more forged is understood to additionally embrace Jon Bernthal, who just lately confirmed he’ll reprise his personal Netflix position as Frank Fort aka The Punisher, plus Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark) and Margarita Levieva (Revenge, The Deuce).
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