Fans were ecstatic when Marvel Studios finally announced their first full Daredevil project since the Netflix series came to a premature end. The new series, titled Daredevil: Born Again, has been scheduled for a release on Disney Plus. Now it looks like the production of the series is being changed altogether as part of a creative overhaul.
As shared via THR, Daredevil: Born Again has lost all of its writers and directors as Marvel Studios begins a search for new talent. As the publication notes, “in late September, Marvel quietly let go of head writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman and also released the directors for the remainder of the season as part of a significant creative reboot of the series.” Additionally, “the studio is now on the hunt for new writers and directors for the project, which stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer turned superhero.”
It seems one reason for these changes, which will begin to seep over into their other Disney Plus projects, is that Marvel has become unhappy with the way they’ve handled their television shows. They’ve been working on these shows the same way they did movies, and it seems as though they are now going to a more traditional formula:
“We’re trying to marry the Marvel culture with the traditional television culture,” says Brad Winderbaum, Marvel’s head of streaming, television and animation. “It comes down to, ‘How can we tell stories in television that honor what’s so great about the source material?’”
It appears that the original writers’ intentions for the MCU series were too different from the show’s predecessor from Netflix. Now while they plan “to keep some scenes and episodes,” the series is being altered altogether to better fit the studio’s expectations and hopefully please fans.
Other plans they hope to make going forward is to hire actual showrunners to handle their properties. Up until now, the Marvel shows featured on Disney Plus were ran by executives. As such, this will allow “its shows to have a creative throughline from start to finish.” Furthermore, “showrunners will write pilots and show bibles.”
Ultimately, as shared by Winderbaum, they want these projects to work “beyond the fact that it ties into [other projects] or if they are going to be in a movie or if it is setting up an Avengers film.”
Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for any additional updates on Daredevil: Born Again and other upcoming Marvel projects as we have them.