The second season of Daredevil: Born Again has given the show’s creative team a new sense of freedom, series producer Sana Amanat has said, after the awkward mid-production reset experienced while shooting the show’s first run.
Speaking to Empire, Amanat described the ability to freely craft Born Again’s second season as “liberating,” after being forced to stitch together Marvel’s original plans for Born Again — including various first season scenes that had already been shot — with fresh material designed to make the series match up more closely to Netflix’s fan-favorite original.
“The landscape was open, and that was so liberating,” Amanat said of the series’ sophomore run, which is due to air on Disney+ next year. “We were like, ‘We can do whatever we want.'”
Marvel famously changed its mind on plans to make Daredevil: Born Again a full reboot for the character after seeing early footage of its first season. Initially pitched as a case-of-the-week legal drama with no link to Daredevil’s Netflix era, executives ultimately decided the series had gotten off on the wrong path. A new pilot and finale were written, alongside other new material. Returning characters such as Deborah Ann Woll’s Karen Page and Elden Henson’s Foggy were brought back, and the series’ setting was shifted from a full reboot into something closer to a revival.
“I think I’m not speaking out of turn in saying that there was an effort to make the show very separate from the Netflix [series] and kind of a new concept,” Born Again writer Jesse Wigutow previously told IGN, discussing Marvel’s big Daredevil pivot. “I feel like some of that worked well, and some of it didn’t. And there were expectations that weren’t necessarily being met, and there was a pointed effort and a left turn — to not necessarily return to Netflix, but honor the Netflix origin of the show. It is meant to be more aligned with the Netflix show now.”
Ultimately, the end result felt like something of a continuation — though the seams showed through where Marvel had stitched its two visions of the series together. Free of the need to deal with this, however, Amanat suggested that Born Again season two would finally see the series back on track.
“What does it mean for Fisk when he’s gotten everything he wants?” Amanat teased of Born Again’s second season plotline. “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?”
Born Again will also further double down on its connections to Daredevil’s Netflix run by reintroducing Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones, who Amanat said was a good fit for the series’ ongoing story. “The reason she’s back is because it feels like it’s very personal.” Amanat concluded. “She brings edginess and lightness — Daredevil can be very dark and dramatic, and she cuts through the BS in a really fun way.”
“It’s a very big muscular season that revolves around Fisk in office as mayor,” Wigutow teased of the upcoming season, speaking to IGN. “There’s a lot of political intrigue and palace intrigue.
“[We have] all these moving pieces and this big kind of canvas of New York City, but at the end of the day, it’s about these two characters that you care about most,” Wigutow continued, referencing Daredevil himself and his nemesis Wilson Fisk, “almost the two face-to-face in a playground. That’s the idea. They hate each other, but they need each other. And how do they get through that? That’s ultimately what it all comes down to. And I think we did a really fun job of delivering that.”
Marvel also seems confident of the show’s continued success. IGN was first to break the news that Daredevil: Born Again has already been greenlit for a third season, set to air in 2027. Before then, Daredevil: Born Again’s second season begins on March 4, 2026.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
