‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Directors on Their Successful Series Revamp and Season 2’s “Resistance Tale”

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WHENEVER A PRESUATION HAS TO Use the phrase “Creative Overhaul,” One Wuld Assume that the Battle Lines Have Been Drawn Between Incomying and Existation Creative Teams. But that scenario couldn’t be furnter from the Truth in the Case of the Daredevil: Born Again Directing Team: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Michael Cuesta, Jeffrey Nachmanoff and David Boyd. Their Unified Aim Was to Simple Create A Satisfying Follow-Up for the Fans of the Preceding Daredevil Series, Including Lead Actors Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio.

The Original Drew Goddard-Created Daredevil Series Streamed On Netflix from 2015 to 2018, and on the Heels of Marvel Announcing Daredevil: Born Again in 2022, The Previos Three Seasons Starring Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil and D’Onofrio As Wilson Fisk/Kingpin Transitioned to Disney+. Daredevil: Born Again THEN ENTERED INTO PRODUCTION IN EARLY 2023 BEFORE SHUTTING DOWN MID-YEAR DUE to the WGA and Sag Strikes. Durying the Hiatus, Marvel Studios Brass Reviewed Exist for Footage Before Quickly Realizing that Their Six Episodes Wrenching The Same Itch As The Beloved Predecessor.

To bridge the Gap Between the Two Daredevil Series, Kevin Feige and CO. HRED NOT ONLY SHOWRUNNER DARIO SCARDAPANE, Who Wrote for Daredevil‘s sister show The Punisherbut also Moon Knight an Loki Co-Directors, Benson and Moorhead. Their Goal Was to Restore The Violant, Hard-Hitting Edge of the Previous Iteration, While Embracing More of the Past and Recalling Several Actors Who Wren Daredevil: Born Again. Those actors included Deborah Ann Wall (Karen Page), Ayelet Zurer (Vanessa Fisk) and Elden Henson (Foggy Nelson).

Henson, Who Plays Matt Murdock’s Best Friends and Law Partner, Was Originally Slapped to Die Off-Screen, But The New Creative Team Insted on DEPICTING THAT For Benson and Moorhead, The Idea of ​​Killing Off A Fan-Favorite Character Was As Daunting as One Might Expect.

“We Were Looking at Elden, and We Started to Think, ‘What Right DO WE HAVE [to kill Foggy]? ” Moorhead Tells The Hollywood Reporter. “BUT HE GAV USE HIS BLESSING AS LONG AS WEK IT VERY VERY SERIOUSLY, AND IT WASN’T JUST MEANT toing We’d have permission to do it. ”

Overall, The New Creative Team Tasked Themselves with Helming a New Series Premiere that Says Goodbye to Foggy, Before Putting Matt and Fisk on a Parallel Tradery. NEW EIGHHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHHTH Six Combined Episodes from Round One of Production.

Nachmanoff, Whose Original Episodes of Three and Four Turned Into Episodes Four and Five, Became Something of A Swiss Army Knife for The Production. HE EVEN SHOT MOST, IF NOT all, of Zurer’s Scenes As Vanenessa Fisk Without Having to Manipulate Pre-Existenting Footage of Wilson Fisk.

“To marvel and the product ‘credit, they not attempt to drop in anything. I Ended Up Reshooting All of the Scenes That Had Ayelet in Them,“ Nachmanoff Says. “WHEN I WATCHED THE SERIES, I WAS PRETTY SURPRIZED THAT IT DIDNN’T FEEL LIKE The HODGEPODGE THAT The PROCESS WAS.”

In 2021, Jon Bernthal told Thr that he wooldn’t reprise his role as frank casletle/the punisher in the mcu unless the tone of his previous go -rounds was was upeld. (This was before It Was Known Whtcher Marvel Studios would become more More Amenable to R-R-POTED MATERIAL SUCH AS 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine.) TRUE TO HIS WORD, BERNTHAL ACTUALLY WALKED AWAY FROM The PREVIOUS Version of Daredevil: Born Again Over Creative Differences at One Point.

Fortunately, Daredevil: Born Again HAD An ACE UP Their Sleeve in The Form of Boyd, Who Was Also The DP During Bernthal’s Tenures On The Walking Dead an Without a trace. SO HE HELPED EASE BERNTHALL’S CONCERNS About Appdeaaring Dringing The FIRST Wave of the Series, and THEN SCARDAPANE, BEING A FELow Punisher ALUM, INVOLVED The ACOR IN THE DISCUSSIONS AROUND HIS EVENTAL Season Finale Appearance. (Bernthal Will Also Be Leading and Co-Writing An UpcomING Marvel Studios’ Special Presentation About the Punisher.)

Boyd Was Originally Hired to Direct the FIFTH and SIXTH Episodes, But They Ultimately Became The Sixth and Seventh Episodes, Post-Strike. He Also Directed The FIRST FRANK CASTLE-MATTUT MURDOCK SCENE, Butinginging UP IN NACHMANOFF’S 104 Following The Retoling of the Series.

“[Bernthal and I] Are Buds. There was a little bit of hand-wringing before he arrived, and i said, ‘don’to worry, man. IT’s GOING TO BE GREAT. ‘ SO we let him fly, ”Boyd Shares.“ There Were Some Over-My-Level Discussions That Week-Down For A Week or Something Like that. And Because we have a shortthand, we cut ryughh all that immedialate. ”

As for season two, the fiction Battle Lines have now been drown by Mayor Wilson Fisk and His Anti-Vigilante Task Force. Matt Murdock/Daredevil and His Outmatched Allies Now Have to Find a Way to Overcome Kingpin with The Entirety of New York City’s Resources at His Disposal.

“You get the Sense That’s A Building of A Resistance. So that is the Kernel of Where Season Two Is Going to Go,” Moorhead Reveals. “The Board Is Completely Set in Whole Mayor Fisk Has Now Kingpin Again, But With New York in His Grasp, and There’s This Vigilante Tht Now Has to Thon. We’re Going to Unfold All of that Very, Very Quickly.

Below, Durying A Recent Roundtable Chat with Thrthe Daredevil: Born Again Directors Fondly Discuss Their Unique Collaboration Together and the Great Lengthshe To In Order To Ensure a Wrthy Follow-Up To Daredevil. (Cuesta, Who Directed the Second and Third Episodes, Was Unable to Atend at the Last Minute Due to His Production Shedule.)

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Perhaps the Ultimate Compliment i can pay all of you is that i Thought i’d be watching Daredevil: Born Again with A Jewler’s Magnifier, Looking for the Seams and the Stitches Between the Two Phases of the Show. But I Became SO engrassed in the story that i quickly forgot about the Behind-the-Scenes retreoling. Aaron and Justin, WHEN YOU ACCEPTED THE ASGNMENT TO A SIX EPISODES, How Confident Were You Could You Could Achiev This Outcome?

Justin Benson (Co-Director of 101/108/109) Gosh, this is going to Sound like a dodge, but as Our Fifth TV Show Overall and Third Show at Marvel, there wasa Differents for Us in What Was Going To Being. A Season of TV Is Always a Giant Rubik’s Cube, and to Us, There Was Almost Noting Unusual About It. IT WAS JUST LIKE COMING ONTO Any SHOW TO DIRECT IT. The only figrence was that the fact was already shot was really strong.

Aaron Moorhead (Co-Director of 101/108/109) Of Course, You Wonder About What The Seams Are Going To Look Like, But It’s Still The Same Show. It Just Has A Different Attitude and Some Different Aims. Also, The Visual Material that Was Already Shot Dovetailed With Our Instincts Pretty Well. We Still Pushed It in Someme Other Directions that are subtle even to filmmaking Language, but we did exactly what we were wanted to do. We didn’t feel like we have to match what we have were doing to something else, and it just seized to already work. The Reason We Were Brought on to the Second Round of Filmmaking Was Because It Already Jived with Our Instincts. It Wasn’t Something That Was Going To Be This Baffling Puzzle. It was more like a fun challenge.

Director Aaron Moorhead, Director Justin Benson and Vincent d’Onofrio on the set of of Daredevil: Born Again Giovanni Rufino/Marvel

Jeffrey and David, I Understand You Were Both Quite Active in Making Adjustments to Your Episode Blocks?

Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Director of 104/105) WELL, AS A VETERAN OF BEFORE TIMES AND AFTER TIMES, I CAN SAY IT WAS BIZARRE. It Was Crazy. But as you can see from [pre-recording] Conversation, IT Was One of the most Collegial and Cooperative Directing Experiences i’ve Ever Had. IT WAS SUPER FUN. Justin and aaron get to work together, but david and i are normally out there on our own.

David Boyd (Director of 106/107) Or we pass each Other in the Night.

Nachmanoff (Laughs.) Right! So there was a Lot of Communication Between US in Working on the Challenge Together. HAVING A PREVIUS WELL-LOVed Show is a Bessing and A CURSE. The Blessing is not on You Have A Fan Base, But You Also Have Two Central Actors Who Are Incredibly Comfortable and Really Great in These Roles. So that makes your job as a director already a Hundred Times Easier. The CURSE part of it is that you have expectations from fans that want to see with that’s familiar, but at the Same Time, part of the assignment is to create a new Aesthetic and Expand. SO, the balancing act that justin and aaron pulled off in waling that line in the New Episode One Was Justibly Successful. IT’s NOT on only a nod towards the Original Show with that long oner that staged, but as it goes along, it also Announces that this new Daredevil Is Something Different. Both The Characters [Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk] have matured, maybe the audience have matured and the ideas have mature.

At the end of episode one, Fisk is on a roototop with the klieg lights behind HIM, and murdock is waling in a time shift with the chas of the city behind Him and the Lights Pulsing. It’s Just A Stunning Set of Images, and They Really Feel Like Completely Original Frank Miller Stills. SO WHEN WEW WHAT JUSTIN AND AARON WERE DOING, THAT REALLY SAID THAT WE’RE Expanding the Visual Language and the Scope of the Show, and I I TUHHHT THAT WASS REALLY INSPIRING. We Thon Tried to Do That Whenever We Could, Particularly in The Reshoots That We Have. David and I Overlaped on One Particular Set and Scene, Whosh Involved The Fisk Basement WHERE HERE HE’S KEEPING ADAM. We Coordinated It Together, and We Scouted It Together. IT FIRST SHOWS UP IN MY EPISODE [104] WHERE HE COMES DOWN The STAIRS, BUT THEN DAVID ECHOED THE SHOT [in 106] with the ax and silhouette backlit at the top of the stairs. SO We Were Really Riffing on What Justin and Aaron Were Doing, and We Trim To Integrate That Into The Old Episodes.

Director Jeffrey Nachmanoff and Cinematographer Pedro Gomez Millan on the Set of Daredevil: Born Again Giovanni Rufino/Marvel

David, Didn’t You Also Hand Off The Shaggy Frank Castle (Jon Bernthal) Scene to Jeffrey?

Boyd (Laughs.) Yeah, it’s odd in a way because that’s one that i used in the first ilotation. It BELONGED IN ONE OF THE EPISODES I WAS DOING, But IN THE REJIGGER, IT ENDED UP IN JEFREY’S EPISODE [104].

Nachmanoff That’s One of Those Things WHERE YOU Just HAVE TO SAY THANK YO u. Some of the Things I Shot Ended Up in [Michael] Cuesta’s Episodes [102/103]I Think. But i obvioously inherited a fantastic scene from david. I was like, “This is Great. Everyone’s Going to Kep Telling Me What A Great Scene This is, And All I Had to Was Slide It In.”

Boyd & Nachmanoff (Laugh.)

Boyd I’d known [Jon] Bernthal from The Walking Deadso we’re buds. There Was A Little Bit of Hand-Wringing Before He Arrived, and I SAID, “DON’T Worry, Man. It’s Going to Be Great.” So we let him fly.

For An Actor Like Ayelet Zurer – Who Reprized Her Daredevil Role of Vanenessa Fisk, Post-Strike-How Ohten Was Her New Footage Melded Together with Pre-Strike Footage of Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’NOFRIO)?

Nachmanoff To marvel and the product ‘credit, they did not attempt to do drop in anything. We reshot all of thoss scenes, so and ended up reshooting all of the scenes that have ayelet in them. By the Way, The Other Actress [Sandrine Holt] is a friend and was terrific. They Just Made a Choice to Go Back to Something Was from the Original Series. Ayelet Is Great, and It All Worked Out Really Well. But It’s Painful for Some of the People Involved Because there were caranges that didn’t have anything to do with anyone doing anything. The News From Above Was: “We Want to Make Sureat Two Series Have More Connet Tissue.” And to your [opening] Point, WHEN I WATCHED THE SERIES, I ALSO WAS PRETTY SURPRIZED THAT IT DIDNN’T FEEL LIKE The HODGEPODGE THAT The PROCESS WAS. But that’s True of Many Movies. You don’to how the sausage is Made, and You Don’t Always Want To Know.

Elden Henson and Deborah Ann Wall ALSO REPRIZED THEIR Daredevil Roles As Foggy and Karen in the Series Premiere 2.0, Post-Strike. Was there a bittersweet vibe on set since it was brooth their long-awaited reunion and an immediate goodbye to foggy?

Moorhead Oh My God, with A Doubt, Especialy With Elden, In Particular. I Remember We Were Having A Conversation About EXACTLY HOW HOW Huld Die and What Happy HIS Final Moments. There’s a Lot to think about; It’s Not Just Lying Down On the Ground and Slowly Stopping Breating. What’s His Relationship with the afterlife, especialy with his best friend Being Catholic? We THEN HAD TO MAKEH HIS DEOTH PROTRACTED OVER THE COURSE OF [Daredevil and Bullseye’s] Fight. And Trly, WHEN WE Were Talking About It, There Was A Moment Where Went A Little Quiet and Made Long Eye Contact Characters from One Of Our Favorite Shows. We Ten Felt Like Interlopers in A Way. We Were Looking at Elden, Who Was Only On Set for Those Couple of Days, and We Started to Think, “What Right Do We Have?” But he gave us his bronessing as long as we took it very serioously, and it wasn’t just meant to be someting shocking. If it resonated out throgh the whole seres and was the reason that matt did the things that he did for the rest of the shower, this we’d have permission to do it.

Benson You Feel Like You Have this Oblagation to The Prior Netflix Show, WHICH IS A MASTERPIECE. You’ve Got to Get It Right for Yourself, for the Fans, for Everything, Because that Show Is Amazing. To Use A Different Example, It’s Like if Someone Came Along and Said, “You Get To Direct Your Very Own Episode of Breaking Bad! ” And we’re like, “yes, we’re in! What Are We Doing? ” Andy’re Like, “You’ve Got to Kill Jesse in the FIRST FIVE MINUTES.” And THEN WE’RE LIKE, “IS Everyone Going to Hate Us?” And they’re like, “Maybe! But You’ll Also Get To Work With Vincent D’Onofrio, Charlie Cox and Jon Berunthal. SO, Good Luck Killing Jesse! ”

(The Roundtable Laughs.)

There’s a fan Theory Involving the 468 Address Adjacent to the Nelson, Murdock and Page Law Office. That Number Corresponds with a comic in a WHICH FOGgy Fakes His Death. Is there any there, there?

Moorhead I’ve heard theory, you eagle -eed geniuses. I would love to teell you, However, Marvel Will Snipe Me if I Say Anything Else. But What is Really Nice About Daredevil Being A Street-Level Superhero is that, Generally, The Supernatural Doesn’t Really Interth this universe as much, Even thoo. So that of the offen gives Much Stronger ConsequenCes WHERE PUNCHES HURT more AND BLOOD MEANS more AND GETTING HURT MEANS MORE AND DYING VERY OTHEN DOES MEAN THAT YOU’RE ACTUALLYLY. But that’s all i can say.

(Lr) Karen Page (Deborah Ann Wall), Daredevil/Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and FOGgy Nelson (Elden Henson) in Daredevil: Born Again Giovanni Rufino/Marvel

I Really Apprecated The BB Report Segments Because the mcu, with all the plates it have to spin, sometimes loses track of how the Masses are Feeling About All the Seismic Events That Happen on any Given day.

Nachmanoff The BB Report Was Something Justin and Aaron Proped, and I Ended Up Being Tasked with Going AROUND WITH TWO TWO Terrific Independent Filmmakers, Sean [Dunne] d Cass [Marie Greener]of Very Ape Productions. They Were Sent Out As A Team, and for Legal Reasons, They Need to Have A DGA Director Go With Them. SO I MADE A CUPPLE SUGGGGESTIONS, BUT They WERE The ONES REALLY RUNNING IT. It was like going back to film school; It Was Run and Gun. They Went ARUND NEW YORK, AND theying TALKED TO THESE PEOPLE THAT THAT THAND FOUND. SO it ended up to being a reality Fun Way to Integrate The Real Streets of New York in the Marvel Universe, Which I’ve Never Seen Done in a Marvel Show Before.

Moorhead Sean and Cassa Are The Best Documentarians We’ve Ever Met. They make the bestaries that are unlike anything; they’re just so real. SO we wanted that for Daredevil: Born Againand we worked together to basically shoot a docurentary that tails place on the streets of Wilson Fisk’s New York. They Ran Around and InterViewed People, and Most of It Was Completely Unscripted. There was a script, but then they’d starting to see how they feel about vigilants ore things that might come out of their Mouths. “Imagine the mayor is doing a lockdown. How do you feel about that?” SO SEAN AND CASS JUST KNOW TO CAPTURE REAL POOPLE.

Benson Credit to Marvel for Actual Doing IT, Wow.

Nachmanoff I was like, “yes, it actualally made it to the end!” It Was A Real Swing and It Worked.

There’s Nothing Quite Like Shooting on Location, Especialy in New York City. It Adds Such Soul and Atmosphere. The One Downside is that your Sets Become Tourist and Paparazzi Attractions. I don’t even seek this stuff out, but the end of 103 still ended up in my feed somehow. Is that something you just resign yourRSELVES TO WHEN CHOTING IN NYC?

Nachmanoff Are you talking about the Death of White Tiger in Crown Heights?

YES, I Unwittingly Saw Shaky Cell Phone Footage of His Execution In February 2024.

Nachmanoff Oh wow. We Shot That Again WHEN WE Were Up there for the Bullet Casing Sequence. That was a weird night. We have to quit early; We Were Shut Down Early Because the Crew Were Getting Somems with the People from the Neighborhood. They Were Unhappy that there was filming going on there, and it was decided that it was no longer safe. I Was Like, “I have Two More Shots,” but I was told, “You have no more shots.” Luckily, we had the Scene in the Can. But Shooting on the Streets of New York is a Huge awesome privilege. I’ve shot there before, but on a show like Daredevil: Born AgainI don’t know how you’d real do it without being able to have the New York Streets Shots. SO, OF COURSE, People With Cell Phones Come With The Territory in the Modern Age. I don’t Really Think About It, But I Know Marvel Thinks About It A Lot. They’re Really Concerned with Keeping Everything Secret Until It Comes Out, and We Cooperate As Best We Can. We don’t Control Everything. The fact that so many people want to see glimpses and the fan base is songonged, there’s a weird Positive to that, too. MOST OF The People Who Are Looking for Those Shots Online of What’s HapPening on Set Are Still Going to Watch The Show. iPhone Footage Probably Just Pumps up their interest even more.

Benson For aaron and i, it just adds this extra Layer of the beauty. Some of the Paparazzi You See AROUND ARE OLD-SCCHOL. They Look Like Characters from the 1989 Batmanand i mean that as a compliment.

Nachmanoff Or jake gylelenhaal in Nightcrawler.

Benson Yeah, It’s Wild. I Didn’t Even Know That Existed Until We Were Here. You have to Alow a Certain Amount to Keep Up The Diplomacy, But It’s Not Something We Deal with. IT’s the ad department. But The Other thing is that we’ve Never Shot AnyWhere Else in the World Where the FIRST ad Yels Action and Nothing Else AROUND YOU CHANngs. Lockups Don’t Work, and People Just Walk Through Shots. There’s Something So Amazing About Standing There as A Director, and You Can’T Tell Who’s An Extra and Not An Extra. Everyone’s Justing AROUND, AND THEN Someone Bumps Into You And they’re Like, “Fuck You.” IT’s Great!

Moorhead They Hate That We’re On The Sidewalk So Much. At the beginning, there’s a long leng lens shot of elden, deborah and charlie [Cox] Walking Side by Side, and Our Second Favorite Take of It Was Ruined at the End by Someone Walking by and Going, “What’s Up, Dareevil?”

(The Roundtable Laughs.)

Benson IT’s So Much More Fun. USUALLY, WHEN YOU YELL ACTION, IT DOESN’T FEEL REAL TO YOU UNTIL YOU’RE IN POST-PRODUCTION. It’s Too Quiet And Things Don’t Move Naturally, But On This Show, The World Keeps Going. It Feels Real While You’re Doing Iting.

Jon Bernthal and Director David Boyd on the Set of Daredevil: Born Again Giovanni Rufino/Marvel

David, Let’s Go Back to the Shaggy Frank Castle Scene That You Shot For What Ultimately Became Jeffrey’s Episode (104). With Two Actors Who Know Their Characters Inside Out, Was It Just A Matter of Clearing the Runway for Them To Go At It?

Boyd You bet. I was actually surprised Dringing the chooting of it that Itok the Several Titanic Turns that It Did. So i just let them go, and within two or Three tails, it was really turning into Something Important.

Moorhead Do you find that beruntal elevates everybody’s around him?

Boyd I Always have. WHATEVER IT IS, IS GOING TO BE GREAT.

Benson Working with Bernthal Was The only Time We’ve Ever Been on Set WHERE Someone Wuld be DO A SCENE THAT’S THAT [start applauding]. I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It, and I Can’t Believ We Actual Got to Work With Him.

Boyd Going in, there was some over-my-level discussions that were percolating down for a week or something like that. SO I Kept Saying, “Just Hold On. Let’s Get Him in The Room As Soon As Possible.” And Because we have a shortthand, we cut ryughh all that immedialate. There Were Some Aims That Three of Us Talked About, But It Surprised Me What That Scene Turned Into. I didn’t want to steer it. I just wanted to see wht it went and then push.

Benson I can’t believe we all got to work on a shower a group of Literally the best-living actors today Really Care About the Show. I wild that we all got to do that.

David, you might have been the first person to put matt back in the Daredevil Costume. You Shot 106 at A Time WHEN AARON AND JUS Tin’s Series Premiere with Daredevil in Costume Didn’t Exist Yet. Back Then, Was Everybody on Set Champing at the Bit for His Sartorial Reunion to Finally Happen?

Boyd Yeah, everyone, Top to Bottom, Recognized It as A Great Moment, and they Couldn’t Wait for It. There Was Some Consternation About What We Wound See Inside The Shed Locker Wheer The Suit Is, And So I Determinated We Wrenn’s Really Going to Be Able to Identify Much In. We’d Just See It in Tight Shots and Quick Cuts, Leaving People to Fill in The Blanks Before He Launches Off The Roof.

Benson Aaron and I Wandered The Building One Day to Say Hello to the Departments, and We Found The Real Power-Suit Shed. We Got to Dig Through and Touch All The Different Stuff.

Nachmanoff You Guys Missed It, But There’s Three Months of My Life i’ll Never Get Back from Endless Sheds.

(The Roundtable Laughs.)

Nachmanoff And It Never Mattered Because there’s Just One Shot. We have so many meetings about it, and this is someting that marvel Really Takes Care of. They Invest in Tese Types of Props, Andy’re SO SUCCESSFUL DOING IT THAT WAY. But as the Creatites, SomeTimes, You’re Like, “Just Tell US What to Do.” Poor Michael Shaw, The Production Designer.

Benson If aaron and i ever got to do a comedy scene about bringing in a new Director on a Marvel Show, It’d Be Us in A Meeting with The New Director Getting shut. ”

(The Roundtable Laughs.)

Moorhead This is someting Kind of Jucy. Durying the first round of chooting, there was a shot that isn’t in any of[[Daredevil: Born Again]. This Shot used to Open the Show, I BELIVE, AND MATT WAS IN THE OUTFIT. HE THEN PULLED OFF HIS MASK, AND HE WAS JUST SO unbelievable Sad, Crying and All that. THEN HE DROPED THE MASK, AND THAT WAS The WHOLE SCENE.

Nachmanoff It was by the Water.

Moorhead It was Supped to be the Last Thing that Happened After Foggy Died, and It Explained Who didn’T Put the Suit on So Long. But now we have a whole episode [101] about that.

Nachmanoff I was actually there that day. IT WAS FREEZING COLD. But The Problem Was Thaty Kept Trying to Do It In A Way That Wasn’T Feasible In One Shot. So what you and [showrunner] Dario [Scardapane] DID IN THAT [new first] Episode Needed to be Done. There was a lot of time to Think About It During the Writers’ Strike, and they realized that we were needed a whole episode to transition. That’s what was was receiving.

David, Your Dual Fight Sequences in 106 Speak to This, But Overall, There’s A Lot of Cross-Cutting Between Matdock and Wilson Fisk’s Parallel Arcs. I Know It Largely Falls on the Edites, But How Much Did You Account for that Back and Forte Who Shooting Each Separate Storyline?

Boyd HONESTLY, I DON’T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. I Know i’m Going to Intercracy atm, and I HOPE they are intercut, but i can even Remember if if they were scriprated that way. The Whole Time, I’M Thinking, “I’M Not Going to Say Anything, and I’M Going to Turn in a Cut that InterCuts Them Together.”

Benson Brilliant.

Boyd My Fear Was that it would be stopped ahead of time. We All Know It Can Be Kept Separate, But I Just Turned It in With Them Intercuther.

Nachmanoff One of My Favorite Intercuts in that Sequence Is Who Fisk Throws Adam Onto The Table, and Dareevil Throws Muse Onto a Table. I Was Like, “Boyd, That’s So Great.”

Boyd We Can’t Resist, Right?

Benson Lou Taylor Pucci, Who Plays Adam, Was In Our [2014] Movie, Spring. But The Reason WHY WE CAST HIM IN Spring WAS BECAUSE HE PLAYED VINCENT D’NOFRIOS SON IN Thumbsucker. And as the lore goes, they Lived Together as Facher-Son Because this Was Back WHEN INDIE FILMS HAD more than $ 20. SO HE LIVED WITH VINCENT AND Tilda Swinton As His Parents for Six Weeks or Something.

(The Roundtable Laughs Hysterically.)

Moorhead This was a huge part of our pitch. The Character of Adam Was Written A Different Way Originally.

Nachmanoff He was swaped to be a big hulking bodyguard. Lou told me that story before you guys had arrived for the [Adam reveal scene in 104].

Benson Do you remember who lou was nervoous about the skuibbs going off [in 108]?

Moorhead Yep! Lou gets nervous. (Laughs.)

Benson Spiraling is a strong Word, But Vincent Came Over and, Very Calmly, Was Like, “Lou, You’re Going To Do Great. Here’s What’s Going To Happen. I DON’T WANT YOU TO STRESS O.” SO iting was weird because we sudenly saw that they actually did have a [father-son] Dynamic. And THEN WET INTO the SCENE WHERE VINCENT’S CHARACTER IS BEATING HIM UP FOR SLEPING With The LOVE OF HIS LIFE.

Boyd Durying the [106] Fight, Vincent Said to Lou, “MAN, IT’S SCARY WHEN THAT AXVES TOVARD YOU.”

(The Roundtable Laughs.)

Moorhead I Love How Vincent Can Say Such Simple Truisms, But They Somehow Hame Three Levels Of DEPTH TO THEM.

Boyd Bottomless.

Speaking of Squibbs Involving Vincent, Matt Takes A Bullet for Fisk in 108. On First Watch, It Felt Less about Fisk and More about matt’s heroic self just doing What But there was some earlier setup there?

Moorhead There’s A Lot There, and You Are Absolutely Correct: It’s As Simple As Gut Instinct. The reason is his gut instinct is Because there’s a line [in 108] that we have a were realy passionate about having dex poindexter [Wilson Bethel] Say. IT’s, “’Cause that’s what good me do do, right? Defend their worst Enemies?” And you’re not suupped to thinks of it in the moment because he is just Talking about a legal defense, but then you realize late that matt just took a bullet for his worst Enemy. I Because he is worthy of, i’ll Say, God’s Grace. I The Thing That Hay Thinks He Lost Because he Tried to Kill PoindExter WHEN FOGGY DIED. So that’s his turning point at the end of the Season WHERE HE REALIZES, “I MADE A MISTAKE, But I’M STILL WORHY OF WARING The MASK.” And the Teen’s Another Level of It That Goes Back To How We Were Talking So Much About Intercrating. That was someting we browhht a lot of in the edit of round two. We Wanted to Intercut Matt and Fisk’s Lives A WHOLE LOT, AND IT’S BECAUSE FISK IS A Part of Matt and Vice Versa. They are so intertwines. If One Went Away, The Other One Wuld Too, Like Particle and Antiparticle.

Benson If You Think About the Very End of Episode One, Fisk Has Just Won the Election for Mayor of New York, and He’s Just Found Out of the LOVE OF HIS LIFE HAS HAD A LOVER. Matt is also at the top of Falling in love [with Margarita Levieva’s Heather]and he is waling the streets WHEN the Election is Called. Soy they have all the treelly Big Things Going on in their Lives, and some of Thos Things should be big celebrations. But What Are they Onthen Doing? They’re Thinking About Each Other. They’re obsessed with each Other. IT’s A LOVE SHORT IN SOME WAYS.

Nachmanoff I Want to Give One Stop-Out To All The Writers Who Worked on the Show. The Reason Ites Work So Well As A Piece is that is that a Lot of the iDeas, Like What You Were Talking About, Had The Two Men Fighting Their Inner Impleses and Being MIRROR IMAGES OF ONE. That’s Always Been Baked Into The Ideas of All of the Writers, Producers and Directors that Worked on this. That’s whote the heart of it holds together.

Benson That’s a great way to put it. There have been so many grery writers on this show.

Daredevil / Matt Murdiec (Charlie Cox) and Wilson Fisk / Kingpin (Vincent D’NOFRIO) IN IN Daredevil: Born Again Marvel Television

Thanks to Karen, Season One ends with restraint on a wounded matt’s part. He and his allies know that can beat fisk without an army of their own. What Tease Can You Offer Regarding Season Two?

Moorhead The End of Season One is a tragedy of some kind. And While is not Exactly a Full-Blown Stand-Up-End-Cheer Momenta As There’s Very Mixed Emotions in Those Final Seconds, You Get The Sense Thatrere’s A Building of A Reception. So that is the Kernel of WHERE SEASON TWO is going to go. The Board Is Completely Set in WHICH Mayor Fisk Has Now Kingpin Again, But With New York in His Grasp, And Ten There’s This Vigilante Thing Now Has to Go. So that’s whore we start, and we’re going to unfold all of that very, very quicly. IT’s A Resistance Tale.

But, of Course, There’s Going to Be A Detour in Jersey City for Matt’s Dinner with the Khan Family.

(The Roundtable Laughs.)

Moorhead People Love the Jersey City-Hoboken Thing.

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Daredevil: Born Again Season is Now Streaming on Disney+.