A Disney+ Daredevil show was never going to be dark and gritty.
Netflix did the unthinkable with their corner of the Marvel universe by building mature superhero stories that seemed to happen in the real world. So, when Marvel Studios brought Charlie Cox back as Matt Murdock for Spider-Man: No Way Home, some fans hoped to see the Devil of Hell's Kitchen return to his gritty ways, just like in Netflix's Daredevil show. As a result, people were disappointed when Cox showed up as a quipping, happy vigilante in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
Phase 4 of the MCU showed how people get tired of every Marvel production feeling the same. Still, the MCU formula remains a huge success. And even if the box office results are not as impressive as they were during the “Infinity Saga,” Marvel Studios productions keep turning a profit. There’s no reason to change the formula completely when it’s making money, so any hopes of Daredevil being ultraviolent and realistic were nothing but a dream.
It might be a bummer for some that Marvel is changing Daredevil’s direction for Born Again. Nevertheless, there was no way Marvel Studios would simply throw away a formula they’ve been perfecting for over a decade. Thinking otherwise is just naive. While it’s easy to understand the commercial strategy, that decision gave Marvel Studios the impossible task of salvaging what worked under the gaze of Marvel Television while still ensuring only their TV productions would be considered hard canon. Thanks to the Multiverse, Marvel Studios got the tool it needed to bring back beloved actors and characters while still keeping the canon clean. That’s the case with Cox’s Daredevil and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin.
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