Netflix's DAREDEVIL Showrunner Steven DeKnight Calls DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Series an "Old Disney Scam"
Netflix's Daredevil had a great three-season run before it was canceled along with all of Netflix’s other Marvel shows such as Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, The Punisher and Luke Cage. Marvel Studios and Disney later announced that they were developing a new Daredevil series titled Daredevil: Born Again, which would bring back Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio as Daredevil and Kingpin.
While a lot of fans are excited about this new series, some of the people who worked on the original series on Netflix aren’t very happy about it. One crew member took to X and said:
"I worked on all of the Marvel Netflix shows which all were cancelled in season two or three. Our contracts only give us full vacation pay (like 36 cents per hour worked or some shit) on season three shows. Four years of work I never got a raise or vacation pay. Like $20,000."
He continued and tagged showrunner Steven DeKnight:
"And not only did they cancel Daredevil once crew got full raise and holiday/vacation pay…. The Disney+ reboot is back to season one IATSE contract terms. It’s a [frick]ing scam. I wonder if @stevendeknight knows that!"
DeKnight's responded to these comments by calling Daredevil: Born Again a “Disney Scam” and explains saying:
“He does. It’s an old Disney scam where they slightly rename a series to reset contract terms back to first season. Needs to be addressed by all the guilds/unions and crushed!”
DeKnight added:
“To be clear, I can’t wait to see Charlie Cox and the amazing @vincentdonofrio reprise their iconic rolls. But to claim this is a complete reboot and you don’t have to pay the original creatives is some corporate shenanigans, to say the least.”
Yep, it sure is corporate shenanigans! I’m not a fan of corporate shenanigans and neither are the other people that have been constantly screwed over by them. What are your thoughts on what Steven DeKnight had to say about how Disney does business?
D'Onofrio previously talked about the series and what we can expect and explained that the show is going to feature some "gigantic payoffs" in both its first and second seasons. D'Onofrio also added that both Cox and Jon Bernthal, who is playing The Punisher, will play "a major part of the show." He also said that is going to be very different than the Netflix show. He explained:
"We've only just started shooting. I think we're a couple weeks in, and the show is going to be very, very different than the Netflix show, and it's so exciting because what we're doing is quite something. I think it's something that people are not going to expect. But, always with these Marvel old comic stories that are being revisited and reinvented by us actors, and the writers, the main thing is to answer the fans. To give them what they want but try to be original in some way at the same time, and so that's what we're doing on the show. It's definitely an original way to look at this, and it's really deep, really emotional."
He then teased the second season saying:
"And, by the second season, there are gigantic, gigantic payoffs—in the first season, too, but I can't say much about that—but the fans are gonna really get what they want. It's really quite cool to be doing it."
During a previous interview, Charlie Cox offered some insight on what we can expect from his character:
"I don't think it's a different character. I just think it's maybe a different period of his life. I don't think my interpretation will change -- they hired the same actor. We're saying this is a whole new… era, or variant? I haven't read the scripts, so I don't know. But like, it's part of the multiverse?"
Cox also previously shared that the series will be “a whole new thing”:
“I think that the sense is it is a new beginning, it is going to be different, it is going to be totally different. It is going to be new stories, and new ideas. It is a Season 1, it is not Season 4, so it is a whole new thing. Which I think is the way to go. If you are going to do it again, do it differently.”
Other actors who have been cast in the series include Michael Gandolfini, Margarita Levieva, and Sandrine Holt, who will play Vanessa Fisk, the wife of Fisk. Michael Gaston (Chicago P.D., Mayor of Kingstown) is also in the show.
The series is being written and executive produced by Matt Corman and Chris Ord, and it’s expected to be released in the spring of 2024.