Charlie Cox got a call from Kevin Feige about Daredevil’s return in 2020

Charlie Cox revealed it People magazine that he was first contacted by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige about a possible return as Daredevil in the MCU all the way back in 2020. It would be another two years before the studio announced “Daredevil: Born Again,” although Cox was by then already appeared as the character in a cameo in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” During those two years, the actor became convinced that he would never get his own Daredevil series again.

“I think we stopped shooting the original show in late 2016, early 2018 and found out that it was canceled at some point during that time,” Cox said of his original stint as Daredevil on the Netflix series of the same name. for three seasons between 2015 and 2018. “And it wasn’t until mid-2020 that we got a call from Kevin saying they were interested in bringing the characters back.”

Marvel Studios then went completely radio silent on Cox, so he “completely abandoned” any possibility of starring in a Daredevil reboot series. He stayed in touch with Vincent D’Onofrio, who played Kingpin and always held on to the belief that their time would come in the MCU.

‘I had moved on and every now and then Vincent and I would talk and he would say things like, ‘Oh, they’re going to call. I think they’re going to come to us, but they’re going to call us,” Cox said. “And I picked up the phone and said, ‘That man is delusional! He has to let it go. It’s been ten years and he’s still going. It’s over. It’s definitely over.”

Cox added that he was “shocked” when the second call came in two years later, confirming the plan to bring Daredevil into the MCU and give him his own series with “Daredevil: Born Again,” the first footage of which recently debuted at Disney’s D23. convention.

Joining Cox in “Daredevil: Born Again” are returning cast members Jon Bernthal as the Punisher; Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page; Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson; and Wilson Bethel as Poindexter. Newcomers to the cast include Michael Gandolfini, Margarita Levieva, Jeremy Earl and Ayelet Zurer.

It’s been a long road to the screen for ‘Daredevil Born Again’. The show hit a speed bump last year when filming halted during the WGA Strike. With less than half of the episode sequence filmed before the production shutdown, Marvel decided to completely overhaul the project, leaving only some of the footage. The show went in a new creative direction after parting ways with head writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman. Dario Scardapane, who wrote and produced the Netflix Marvel series “The Punisher,” became the new showrunner.

“Daredevil: Born Again” won’t premiere on Disney+ until March 2025, but a second season is already in development.