Daredevil followers who have been disillusioned when Netflix axed the favored present after three seasons now have one thing to sit up for. Disney+ is transferring ahead with its personal sequence concerning the blind lawyer-turned-superhero Matt Murdock, reported Variety. The streaming service has signed co-writers Matt Corman and Chris Ord to write down and government produce the sequence. Corman and Ord served as co-showrunners for the NBC army drama The Brave, and the duo additionally created the spy drama Covert Affairs.
Daredevil is just the most recent of a lot of MCU titles which have been revived on Disney+ as exhibits, beginning with final 12 months’s WandaVision. The streamer has since launched six different Marvel exhibits, together with Hawkeye, Moonknight and Loki, with many extra to observe this 12 months. Meanwhile, the raft of Netflix exhibits primarily based on Marvel characters all left the streaming platform’s library for good earlier this 12 months.
The Daredevil Disney+ present remains to be within the very early phases — Variety notes that Marvel has but to announce something formally. Charlie Cox, who performed the lead character within the Netflix sequence, returned to his previous function on this 12 months’s Spider-Man:No Way Home and Vincent D’Onofrio reprised his Daredevil function of Kingpin in Disney’s Hawkeye. Both actors appeared optimistic a few Disney+ revival of the sequence, however there is not any telling if they’re going to return to the brand new sequence.
In an interview with Marvel News Desk, D’Onofrio shed some mild on the Netflix present’s sudden cancellation, which shocked its many followers. The actor stated the present’s departure in 2018 doubtless needed to do with Marvel paving the way in which for Disney’s nascent streaming service. “You know, at the same time the group #SaveDaredevil started to rise, we started to learn the reasons why that happened and so we understood what Marvel was doing because Disney+ coming out.”