Daredevil: Born Again Returns For Season 2 With Total Freedom: ‘We Can Do Whatever We Want’
When Charlie Cox returned as Daredevil in Disney+ sequel series Daredevil: Born Again, there was much to love – Hell’s Kitchen’s hero back at it again, Vincent D’Onofrio back on fearsome form as Kingpin, and some shocking turns along the way. (Foggy, no!) But, the series also bore some hallmarks of its tricky production – Season 1 was retooled from a very different initial iteration of Born Again, reportedly a more law-focused case-of-the-week procedural, without several of the key ingredients from the original Netflix series. Now, going into Season 2, the deck is cleared: Daredevil is back, engaged in a massive battle of wills with Kingpin, and Hell’s Kitchen hangs in the balance.
“The landscape was open, and that was so liberating,” producer Sana Amanat tells Empire of Season 2. “We were like, “We can do whatever we want.’” For Matt Murdock, that means building a vigilante army, while physically weakened after taking a bullet for – of all people – Wilson Fisk. As for Fisk, now Mayor of New York City, he’s at the height of his powers, cracking down on masked crusaders with his ‘Safer Streets Initiative’. “What does it mean for Fisk when he’s gotten everything he wants?” teases Amanat of where Born Again is going. “When you give a person whose thirst cannot be quenched his most valued treasure, is it enough? Or does he squeeze his treasure too hard?”
At least Matt has some back-up this time, in the form of Krysten Ritter’s returning Jessica Jones. Not that she’s dying to join any kind of club. “[Jones] isn’t necessarily a team-up kind of person,” Amanat says. “So the reason she’s back is because it feels like it’s very personal. She brings edginess and lightness — Daredevil can be very dark and dramatic, and she cuts through the BS in a really fun way.” Get ready for Born Again to be… well, born again.
Read Empire’s full Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 story in The Odyssey issue – on sale Thursday 20 November. Pre-order a copy online here. Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 comes to Disney+ in March 2026.
