Disney hires Loki‘s Benson and Morehead to try to fix its busted Daredevil show
Justin Benson and Aaron Morehead, lately of Loki, are teaming up with Punisher writer Dario Scardapane to try to overhaul Daredevil: Born Again
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Disney is moving forward with its plans to revamp the first season of its upcoming superhero lawyer series Daredevil: Born Again, sounds like, with THR reporting that the show has now had a whole new creative team attached to it. Which is good, since they fired the last creative team earlier this month, dumping head writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman, and letting the show’s stable of directors for future episodes know their services would no longer be needed.
In their place, the studio has tapped some familiar faces, with Dario Scardapane (who served as an executive producer on Netflix’s Daredevil spin-off The Punisher, before moving over to Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) as showrunner. Future directing duties, meanwhile, have been handed off to well-known directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Morehead, who are mostly known for bizarre and unsettling horror films like The Endless and Something In The Dirt, but who have lately shown a knack for putting a distinctive spin on Marvel house style, first on Moon Knight, and then as head of the directing team on the current second season of Loki.
Born Again’s overhaul has been seen, at least in some ways, as a casualty of this summer’s strikes—is so far as it gave Disney+ execs a chance to take a look at the show they’d made so far and, apparently, go “Ugh.” (None of this is official or anything, but the show as-is has been accused of going too comedic, and too light on the “Matt Murdock dresses like a devil and hits people” parts.) The new version of the series will keep “some scenes and episodes” that have been previously shot, but the incoming creative team will be writing new material to spackle it all together, and, from the sound of it, re-writing and reworking anything that hasn’t already been put on camera.
Born Again is set to star Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio, both reprising their roles from the Netflix Daredevil show.
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Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack RyanI checked and am so disappointed this wasn’t the official name of the series.
Yes, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Amazon’s has such potential as a series.(Isn’t it fun dealing with Kinja’s… peculiarities?)
That’s funny it doesn’t normally happen when I quote the article, only anything else. I always paste things from other sites into notepad to remove the formatting.
I’ve noticed any time I copy something with a link, and paste that text into Kinja, it *looks* OK in the editor, but when published Kinja removes the link and puts the link text at the beginning of the comment. It’s so annoying that I use notepad as an intermediate step in doing any copy-paste here involving any sort of formatting or link.
“busted” show, as if we knew anything about the original script. Get bent with this attention grabbing nonsense.
We know it’s getting thrown out, so.
Yep, the execs that were totally cool with Secret Invasion coming out thought Daredevil: Born Again wasn’t shaping up, so it must’ve been largely atrocious.
Did you even read the Hollywood Reporter article? https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/daredevil-marvel-disney-1235614518/Almost as if someone higher up than them saw the reaction to Secret Invasion realized they should be paying closer attention to the shows they were rubber stamping out the door…
I… agreed with you.
Fuck. I read your comment as sarcastic (as in why would the people who looked at SI and thought it was ok suddenly be worried about DD). I’m sorry.
No worries, see how it could be read both ways!
Listen, you can’t just apologize for a misunderstanding, this is the internet
18 episodes sounded like a lot, but I am hoping it ends up being at least 10. These 6 episode shows just end up being one extended movie.
Ya know, I’ve been rewatching Agents of SHIELD and have come to the conclusion that it would be pretty cool to have a traditional 20+ episode season of one of these shows.
So has there been any casting news about Foggy or Karen Page? Or did their characters die on their way back to their home planets?
The rumor was Foggy (and maybe Karen) die offscreen in episode 1, causing Matt to not suit up for awhile. If any of that is true I hope it’s completely scrapped with the new writers
I feel like they should be thinking cheaper and simpler, I’m loving Loki but can’t see where the street neighborhood hero would be like from them