— the upcoming Disney+ reboot of — and it’s a lovely belated Christmas gift.
There must be something in the water right now — . And now this.
Cox did an interview with and chatted about the reboot series, in which he will reprise the role of badass blind lawyer Matt Murdock.
Though Murdock has popped up in a couple of Marvel things recently — a cameo in and an appearance in — this will be a proper revisit of the character.
“ [head of Marvel Studios] called and said, ‘We’d like to bring you into the MCU,” Cox told
“I was over the moon,” Cox said of playing Murdock and his alter ego Daredevil again. “I love this character.”
We first met Matt Murdock in the Netflix series and the show was a hit. However, when Disney+ launched it had produced. So far, is the only one they are revisiting, but I personally wouldn’t hate seeing again.
While the Netflix iteration was quite gritty, Cox hinted that will be less intense. “This has to be a reincarnation, it has to be different, otherwise why are we doing it?”
He pointed out that the Matt Murdock we saw in and was “quick-witted and funny and charismatic and carefree at times” and told the new version could be a tad lighter.
“My opinion is this character works best when he’s geared towards a slightly more mature audience. My instinct is that on Disney+ it will be dark but it probably won’t be as gory.”
As for a release date, it’s a long way off. is filming in 2023 for basically the whole year — the lengthy shooting time reflective of the whopping 18-episode order that Marvel has given the series. For context, that’s twice as many episodes as any other Marvel series. HUGE.
The reason Cox needed to speculate in the interview is because he claimed he hadn’t even seen a script for yet and just signed on anyway. The absolute trust this man has.
“I’m fascinated to discover why they’ve chosen to do 18 [episodes]. I’m imagining there’s going to be an element to it that is like the old-school procedural show,” he told of the reboot.
“Not necessarily case-of-the-week, but something where we go really deep into Matt Murdock the lawyer and get to see what his life is like. If that’s done right and he really gets his hands dirty with that world… I think there’s something quite interesting about that, to spend a lot of time in a superhero’s day-to-day life and you really earn the moments when he suits up.”
Either way, looks like we’ll find out at some point in 2024 when it finally drops on . Watch this space!
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