Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+)

[thecolorsblend]

If DBA ends up being a worthy follow-up to the Netflix seasons, then I truly hope all those Fandom Menace grifters will loudly sing its praises.

It LOOKS like Marvel heard our complaints about how Cox's Daredevil was treated in She-Hulk and course-corrected. They need to be rewarded for course-correcting.

[thecolorsblend]

Razorfist is chiming in too. In his usual angry way.

[Silver Nemesis]

The latest issue of SFX features Daredevil on the cover.

Meanwhile a preview has been released for the Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man animated series that debuts this month. The video offers a brief glimpse of Charlie Cox's performance as a new animated version of Daredevil (around the 1:00-1:10 mark).

I really need Born Again to be good. I'm tired of feeling cynical and pessimistic about modern entertainment. I know some people enjoy hate-watching things, and the resulting reviews can admittedly be funny and entertaining. But I'm not a hate-watcher. I want to get excited about movies and TV shows again. I'd love it if Born Again and the new Superman movie both turned out to be good so we could have fun discussing and analysing them and getting hyped speculating about which villains and stories will be adapted next. That would be swell.

[Silver Nemesis]

New promo art.

[Silver Nemesis]

Charlie Cox has penned a foreword to the latest edition of Miller and Mazzucchelli's Born Again graphic novel. I won't copy and paste the whole thing here, but you can read it over at Collider: https://collider.com/charlie-cox-foreword-daredevil-born-again-comic-images/

It reinforces two things we already knew about Cox: firstly, that he knows his Daredevil comics a lot better than most actors know the source material they're adapting; and secondly, that he has an excellent understanding of the character's complexities and what makes him so fascinating.

We were incredibly lucky to get both Charlie and Vincent in these roles. I'm not sure I can think of another comic adaptation where the hero and villain were both so perfectly cast as to definitively embody their characters.

[Silver Nemesis]

[Silver Nemesis]

Matthew Lillard has been cast in season 2: https://deadline.com/2025/02/daredevil-born-again-season-2-casts-matthew-lillard-1236305219/

Interestingly, Lillard is also set to reprise his role as Stu in Scream 7. I'm not sure how that's going to work.

[thecolorsblend]

Interestingly, Lillard is also set to reprise his role as Stu in Scream 7. I'm not sure how that's going to work.

It's loose canon that he survived the first film. The booklet for the mega Scream "trilogy" DVD set from 2002 (or so) listed off all the Ghostface killers up to that point.

Among them, I think Stu was listed as a survivor. In any case, Kevin Williamson's original plan for Scream 3 called for Stu to give an encore performance to close out the trilogy. Obviously, Scream 3 and the saga as a whole went a different way.

Another interesting thing about the Scream set's booklet is that it indicted someone else.

Scream 3 suggests that Roman acted alone. But the movie itself makes it basically impossible for Roman to have been a solo act. Otherwise, whole sequences make no sense. Well, the booklet clarifies that. The character Angelina Tyler was Roman's unindicted co-conspirator. Furthermore, the booklet lists her as alive. Either Roman's attack on her was faked or else she somehow survived it. Meaning, she was never caught, she's still alive and may yet come back to menace Sydney.

[Travesty]

I'm really disappointed in this show. I know people are liking it, but man, this is a boring slog to get through. Sure, there's a few scenes that are good, but we're talking maybe 2-3min per episode.

And I binged all 3 seasons of the Netflix show, which I still think are the best live action depiction of a comic book property we've ever seen. This show has fallen well below its Netflix counterpart. I'll stick with it, but the first 4 episodes have been pretty bad, IMO.

[Gotham Knight]

I'm still debating as to whether to even bother with this.

My thing is: I'm one of the rare people out there who thinks that Daredevil (2015) season 1 was one of the best superhero things ever done while also thinking that the rest of the show's run (especially season 2) was the worst crap I've ever wasted time on. I believe that the whole of the Netflix Marvel experiment was a horrendous disaster and when I heard that this show got completely retooled to be more like the OG show I found myself less and less interested in trying it out, especially because I'm told you can see the seams where they've cut and stitched this thing and most of the reviews I'm seeing claim that the original more episodic version of this show is the better stuff. I suppose that's to be expected as I personally think serialization has killed TV as a format because writers don't understand that serials and episodics still basically function the same way on a week to week basis.