The original ‘Daredevil’ series on Netflix aired for three seasons, from 2015 to 2018. After it was canceled, Charlie Cox moved on from his Marvel role because he had not heard from the studio for a long time. The actor still kept in touch with co-star Vincent D’Onofrio, though.
“I’d moved on and occasionally Vincent and I would chat and he would say things like, ‘Oh, they’re going to call. I think they’re going to call us, but they’re going to call us,’” he shared in a new chat with People. “And I would get off the phone and be like, ‘The guy’s delusional! He’s got to let it go. It’s going to be 10 years and he’s still going. It’s over. It’s definitely over.’”
Cox noted that Kevin Feige reached out to him about his return two years after the Netflix show ended. “And then it wasn’t until midway through 2020 that we got a phone call from Kevin saying that they were interested in bringing the characters back.”
The actor made a cameo as Matt Murdock in 2021’s ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ but didn’t get a call about his own series until around 2022.
Filming for ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ began early in 2023, and the first half of the 18-episode season wrapped up by early May 2024. The reboot’s first footage debuted at Disney’s recent D23 convention.
Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Jon Bernthal appeared together at the event as the leading cast for the first time in years. Marvel also brought Ayelet Zurer and Wilson Bethel in the upcoming show.
