Daredevil: Born Again promises a more "singular vision" for season 2

Daredevil: Born Again
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Getting the first season of Daredevil: Born Again on screens sounds like a hellish ordeal, given that the initial plan for Matt Murdock making his complete entrance into the MCU was totally scrapped in place of having a stronger connection to the Netflix series fans had missed so much. Now, with that being out of the way, executive producer Jesse Wigutow has confirmed that season 2 will be a far more streamlined story, and it sounds like it won't feel as stitched together as its predecessor was. Speaking to Collider about the upcoming season, which is aiming for release next year, Wigutow admitted that things are very different this time around and that they've learned from the mistakes of the past.

"We are in the process. It's so fresh in my mind. I'm looking at cuts and thinking about, 'What can we improve?' I think it's a singular vision in a way that season 1 is not. Season 1 is, to your point, not hodgepodge, but it was jigsawed together," Wigutow confessed, looking back on the introductory show that was initially scrapped and rebuilt from scratch with stars from the original Netflix series returning for the Disney+ take.

"It’s not a whole lot I can say, obviously, in terms of specifics, but it is a very big portrait that we're telling, a big New York City story, crime, politics. Obviously, we have Mayor Fisk and all of the palace intrigue around him inside City Hall. All of it, I think, is really awesome," Wigutow revealed. This is what the producer hinted would continue into season 3, which was just given the green light in September.

"What I take away most from the season — and we're just going through cuts now, we're about to embark on Season 3 — is that we told this really big story, it got very wide, and then we kind of drive it in the finale to really what matters most," he teased. "I think what people care about are these two characters and the conflict that they're in, how deeply they hate each other, and how deeply they need each other. We really carve out all the stuff around them that we've built up, and it's just the two of them, face-to-face, in a really, I think, satisfying climax." Hell yeah, it will be.

Nick Staniforth
Contributing Writer

Nick is a freelancer whose work can be found at Screen Rant, The Digital Fix, and Looper. He loves movies, TV, DC, and Marvel. He also believes that the best Robin Hood is still a talking fox.

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