Daredevil: Born Again season 2

The second season of the American television series Daredevil: Born Again is based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Daredevil. The series is a revival and continuation of Daredevil (2015–2018) by Marvel Television and Netflix. The season is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films and television series of the franchise. It is produced by Marvel Studios, via its own Marvel Television label, with Dario Scardapane as showrunner and Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead as lead directors.

Charlie Cox reprises his role as Matt Murdock / Daredevil from Marvel's Netflix television series and prior Marvel Studios productions, starring alongside Vincent D'Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Wilson Bethel, Genneya Walton, Clark Johnson, and Michael Gandolfini, all returning from the first season. Development on a new Daredevil series began by March 2022, and Born Again was announced in July 2022 with a planned 18-episode first season. Marvel Studios decided to overhaul the series by late September 2023, after filming began. Scardapane, Benson, and Moorhead were hired to rework the series, and the planned 18 episodes were split into two seasons. Filming for the second season began in late February 2025 and is scheduled to last until that July.

The second season is scheduled to premiere on Disney in early-to-mid 2026, and will consist of eight episodes. It will be part of Phase Six of the MCU.

Episodes

The season will consist of eight episodes, with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead directing a block of episodes, including the first and second.

Cast and characters

Main

• Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil: A blind lawyer with superhuman senses from Hell's Kitchen, New York, who leads a double life as a masked vigilante
• Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin: A powerful businessman and crime lord who is the mayor of New York City
• Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page: A former reporter, and Murdock's friend and former partner at the Nelson, Murdock & Page law firm
• Elden Henson as Franklin "Foggy" Nelson: Murdock's best friend and former law partner who was killed by Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter in the first season
• Wilson Bethel as Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter / Bullseye: A psychopathic assassin and former FBI agent who is a highly skilled marksman capable of using almost any object as a lethal projectile
• Genneya Walton as BB Urich: A journalist for The BB Report
• Clark Johnson as Cherry: A retired New York Police Department (NYPD) officer who works with Murdock as his investigator
• Michael Gandolfini as Daniel Blake: Fisk's protégé

Recurring

• Matthew Lillard
• Lili Taylor as a political opponent to Fisk

Guest

• Susan Varon as Josie: The owner of Josie's Bar

Additionally, Sydney Parra, Annie Parisse, and James Armstrong have been cast in undisclosed roles.

Production

Development

A reboot of Marvel's Netflix television series Daredevil (2015–2018) was reported to be in development with Marvel Studios in March 2022. The series was confirmed to be in development for Disney in late May, with Matt Corman and Chris Ord attached as head writers and executive producers. At San Diego Comic-Con that July, the series was announced as Daredevil: Born Again and was revealed to have 18 episodes for its first season. By late September 2023, after six episodes had been filmed, Marvel Studios decided to overhaul the series with a new creative direction. Corman and Ord were let go as head writers, as were the series' remaining directors. Marvel planned to retain some elements that had been shot, add new serialized elements, and move closer to the tone of the Netflix series. The creative team also decided to connect the new series to the original series more directly than had previously been planned. Dario Scardapane, a writer on Netflix's Daredevil spin-off series The Punisher (2017–2019), was hired as showrunner for Born Again in October 2023. Filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who previously worked on the Marvel Studios series Moon Knight (2022) and the second season of Loki (2023), were hired to direct the remaining episodes.

Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said in August 2024 that nine episodes had been completed that would make up the first season of Born Again, and a second season was planned; with the creative overhaul, the planned 18-episode season had been split into two, nine-episode seasons. In February 2025, Scardapane, Benson, and Moorhead were confirmed to be returning for the second season, with Benson and Moorhead directing a block of episodes, including the first and second. Scardapane said the second season would just be eight episodes, and described its production as a "better-oiled machine". Executive producers for the season included Marvel Studios' Feige, Louis D'Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, and Sana Amanat, alongside Scardapane, Benson, and Moorhead. The series is released under Marvel Studios' "Marvel Television" label.

Writing

The series' initial take was described as a legal procedural that was dark but not as gory as the Netflix series, and more episodic than other Marvel Studios series with "self-contained" episodes. Vincent D'Onofrio, who portrays Wilson Fisk / Kingpin, said in March 2023 that they were working on two seasons and there would be "gigantic payoffs" during the second. Following the series' creative overhaul, serialized elements were added, and the cast said the events of the original series would be part of their characters' histories. Some new storylines build on those events, but they did not want to dwell too much on the past or alienate new viewers.

In February 2025, Scardapane described the second season as a "part two", building on what had been done with the first. He said the scripts for seven episodes were "locked, loaded, [and] ready to go" ahead of the start of filming. Scardapane was still working on the season finale, as he wanted to be able to incorporate elements that were discovered during filming similar to traditional network television series where only a few episodes are written ahead of the one being filmed. Scardapane said Fisk is the "prime villain" of the series, but it also features other antagonists who would be "piling up" as the story continues. These include the serial killer Muse, whose storyline has a "ripple effect" from the first season into the second. Despite being killed in the series' first episode, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson returns for the second season. Amanat said Nelson actor Elden Henson and Karen Page actress Deborah Ann Woll would both appear in "different ways" during the season and said the creative team could not "see a Daredevil season without [Henson] in some regard". It was noted that the law firm Nelson, Murdock & Page in the first season has the building number 468, which Gizmodo's James Whitbrook felt was an Easter egg to Daredevil vol. 2 #88 (legacy #468) (2006). That issue's storyline, by Ed Brubaker, David Aja, and Frank D'Armata, is "The Secret Life of Foggy Nelson", where Nelson is seemingly murdered but actually survives and makes a deal with the FBI to enter the Witness Protection Program. Whitbrook wondered if Nelson would be revealed to be alive in the second season. He noted that there were significant differences between Nelson's death in the series, which "leaves very little room for vagueness" and his death in the comic book, but Whitbrook also pointed out that there is precedence in the Netflix series for characters to be resurrected through supernatural means.

Casting

Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Wilson Bethel, Genneya Walton, Clark Johnson, and Michael Gandolfini respectively return from the first season as Matt Murdock / Daredevil, Wilson Fisk / Kingpin, Karen Page, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter / Bullseye, BB Urich, Cherry, and Daniel Blake.

At the end of February 2025, Matthew Lillard joined the cast for the season, in a recurring role. The next month, Lili Taylor joined in another recurring role said to be a political opponent for Fisk. Also in March, set photos revealed that Sydney Parra, Annie Parisse, and James Armstrong were also part of the cast. Guest stars include Susan Varon, who reprises her role as Josie.

Design

The season features a black Daredevil suit with red "double D" chest emblem, similar to the one featured in the "Shadowland" (2010) comic book storyline. It is the first time the character has worn a suit with the chest emblem in the MCU. Looking at set photos of the suit, Felipe Rangel of Screen Rant said there appeared to be bits of red visible under the black. He speculated that Murdock had painted over his red suit from the first season. Dex's costume in the season features a blue "target" emblem on the forehead, similar to the white one from the comics.

Filming

Principal photography began on February 28, 2025, with Benson and Moorhead as directors, under the working title Out the Kitchen 2. Hillary Fyfe Spera returns as cinematographer from the first season. In late March 2025, filming occurred in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, at the set for Josie's bar, with Cox wearing his black Daredevil suit. In early April, Bethel filmed scenes in Chelsea. Filming is scheduled to last until July 2025.

Release

The second season is set to premiere in early-to-mid 2026, and will consist of eight episodes. It will be part of Phase Six of the MCU, and released under Marvel Studios' "Marvel Television" label.

References

External links

• Daredevil: Born Again at IMDb