The MCU's Daredevil Should Be A Soft Reboot, Says Charlie Cox
Daredevil star Charlie Cox says the character's proper MCU return should be a soft reboot. Daredevil was the flagship Marvel Netflix TV show, and it set the pattern for everything that came after it. As excellent as the scripts may have been, though, the secret to its success lay in inspired casting choices — notably Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, and Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin.
Execs at Marvel Studios seem to have recognized this truth, bringing back D'Onofrio's Kingpin in Hawkeye and Cox's Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The future looks bright for both characters, with their roles feeling like clear setup and the Marvel Netflix shows moving to Disney+ from March 16. The only question among viewers, however, is whether or not Cox and D'Onofrio are playing the same iterations of their iconic characters, or whether Marvel will take advantage of the multiverse to conduct a soft reboot.
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Cox was invited to a panel at the Middle East Film and Comic Con 2022 in Abu Dhabi (via The Cutaway), where he celebrated his return and aired his own views on this topical debate. Although he stressed he preferred to leave the writers and creative teams to make their own decisions, he nonetheless pointed towards his preference for a soft reboot.
«I don't think it makes sense to pick up where we left off. I think… in keeping with a lot of things in the MCU right now, where there's this kind of alternate reality, kind of thing going on… so it’s a good moment to have this, you know, there’s been… a few years have passed, you know, and now I don’t know it’s Daredevil but maybe there’s it’s not quite… it’s reimagined.»
Cox's comments do retain an element of
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