Life is but a multiverse, nowadays. Five years ago, the mere thought of multiple Spider-Men in the same movie was heresy. How stupid we were! Now, every film studio—plus probably your kid brother and sister—has their own interconnected universe.
On this fine Friday, let’s zoom in on one small corner of the present multiversal antics. Specifically, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. More specifically, the string of cancelled Netflix shows (Luke Cage, Daredevil, Iron Fist, and the best of them all, Jessica Jones) that may or may not be a part of the MCU. Even more specifically, the place Charlie Cox’s Daredevil currently holds in the midst of it all.
Charlie Cox shows up as Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home, serving as Peter Parker’s lawyer. Around the same time, Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin, also from Netflix’s Daredevil series, also hopped into the MCU to wreak havoc in Hawkeye. Jump to the present day, where fans and news outlets are playing the rumors game. Apparently, a production listing (which may or may not be real, by the way) hints that a Daredevil reboot is in production for Disney+.
We don’t feel confident enough in the legitimacy of the production listing to fully speculate where a Daredevil reboot could go, but this is a good chance to toss a warning out to the cosmos. Disney? Please don’t MCUify Daredevil. The series, as it operated during its three seasons on Netflix, was a refreshingly bloody and R-ish-rated take on the hero—which is exactly how it should be. Disney, of course, is Disney, meaning that if there is a Daredevil TV series under the Mouse House banner, they’ll like want it to be family-friendly enough to have a Daredevil doppelgänger running around the Avengers campus in Disneyland. Can’t have Daredevil beating the snot out of Donald Duck, you know! (Though if Moon Knight really does turn out to be as dark as its trailers are promising, then there may be hope for a properly shadowy Daredevil reincarnation yet.)
If Cox really does return in a proper Daredevil reboot? Show the man some love. Please.
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