Daredevil: Born Again Showrunner Talks About Plans For The Show Changing And Following Daredevil

In a recent interview Daredevil: Born Again showrunner Dario Scardapane talks about his plans for the show changing and following the Daredevil series

In a recent interview Daredevil: Born Again showrunner Dario Scardapane talks about his plans for the show changing and following the Daredevil series. Scardapane spoke with SFX recently, and the article has been covered in a few posts by their website Games Radar, Here and Here.

First off Scardapane talked about how plans he may have being changed by the overall masterplan of Marvel. He also said that Matt’s one night stand with She-Hulk may be one of the things they don’t particularly reference in the show.

“Marvel has a master plan, and what you’re doing causes ripple effects,” he explains in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Daredevil: Born Again on the cover and hits newsstands on January 29. “I would pitch stuff very early and I would hear that they had other plans.”

“I have plenty of leeway up until I hit the larger-scale plan for the MCU. So I try to ignore some stuff [from the wider universe]. We establish a very specific Daredevil, both in terms of his dilemma, down to the suit and where we’re picking him up in his life. You can say that Daredevil is canon in the MCU, those other events [in Spider-Man and She-Hulk] happened, but some of them we are not leaning into. His one-night stand with She-Hulk may be one of those things.”

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“They’ve moved Matt through other corners of the MCU, and now he’s back in his own story,” adds Scardapane. “I don’t want to give anything away, but you’re going to see a character [in our show] you never thought you would, but they get folded into the story in a manner that is organic and exists in our world. New York, in the current state of the MCU, has a lot of stuff going on.”

Fixing Issues With Daredevil

Now, I’m less sure of what Scardapane had to say next.

“There is more fun in the moments with these characters and a lot less navel-gazing than before.”

“The earlier show, at its best, was fantastic. At its worst, it was two characters in a room talking about what a hero is. I felt that had been done. I’m not taking swipes. I just didn’t want to hear characters grousing about their lot in life. I wanted to see them doing things.”

See this worries me slightly, that there will be less character drama and more set pieces. All the Netflix shows had major issues with getting really boring in the middle, except Daredevil for me, which kept a high quality factor. Hope I’m wrong about this, we’ll see soon.

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“One of our edicts was longer scenes,” he recalls. “You had these long five-page scenes of characters hashing it out in order to make space between these massive action sequences. The way stuff has evolved since then, we’re able to do big action sequences at a lot more pace.”

“I really feel that Netflix’s Daredevil, which I know in my blood, was much more noir, and this show is more New York crime story,” he continues. “It has elements of The Sopranos and King Of New York. There’s a feeling for those classic ’90s crime tales. It has a pace and a scope that, for a lot of reasons, Netflix wasn’t able to do. They were very dark, cinematically, not necessarily story-wise, although there were some dark elements. We’re much darker.”

Daredevil: Born Again releases on March 4 in the US and March 5 in the UK. What do you think as Daredevil: Born Again showrunner Dario Scardapane talks about his plans for the show changing? What of those comments on following the Daredevil series? Thoughts below.

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