Disney's New Daredevil Series Will Reportedly Be A Continuation
A new report indicates that Disney+’s new Daredevilseries will be a continuation of the existing show which first aired on Netflix. Originally created by Drew Goddard, the series starred Charlie Cox as the blind lawyer-turned-vigilante Matt Murdock. After running for three seasons, Daredevil was cancelled in November 2018, soon to be followed by each of the remaining Marvel series on Netflix. While fans were disappointed and held out hopes for a series revival on another service, reports indicate that per the original agreements Marvel held with Netflix, they were prevented from using any of the characters for at least two years following the cancellation.
Thankfully, with that period now expired, fans were treated to two surprise returns late last year in the form of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk in the Hawkeye series and Cox’s own cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home. This sent the fandom into a flurry of speculation. Theories about whether a proper Daredevil revival was in the cards began circulating as soon as their MCU returns were revealed. More recently, news broke that a new Daredevil series is in development for Disney+ with Covert Affairs’s Matt Corman and Chris Ord tapped to write and executive produce.
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While that initial news did not indicate whether the new series would serve as a fresh reboot of the property or a continuation of what had come before, THR's sources describe Disney+'s Daredevil as "the first of the Netflix Marvel shows to get a new but continued series." This would seemingly indicate that not only can fans expect Cox and D’Onofrio to reprise their respective roles, but it could also potentially look to continue the many story
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