In a surprise move that raised eyebrows across the industry in late 2023, Marvel Studios removed the original writers and directors of Daredevil: Born Again. In their place, showrunner Dario Scardapane was parachuted in alongside Moon Knight directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead to help steer the ship away from increasingly stormy waters.

Scardapane, who previously worked on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and The Punisher, also spoke on the carpet of the challenges of taking over the show midway, noting, “when you come into something after they’ve looked at it and you have existing material and you’re trying to build context into that, it was daunting but also exciting.”

When Marvel announces that its blind vigilante superhero Daredevil would be “Born Again” on Disney+, they weren’t kidding.