Daredevil: Born Again Team Tells All About Premiere’s ‘Atom Bomb’ of a Twist: ‘It’s a Tough Pill to Swallow’ – TVLine

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We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.The following contains full spoilers from the series premiere of Daredevil: Born Again, now streaming on Disney+.I repeat…. The following contains full spoilers from the series premiere of Daredevil: Born Again, now streaming on Disney+.Disney+’s long-anticipated Daredevil: Born Again series got the Nelson, Murdock & Page band back together again!Well, at least for eight minutes or so.And then things just went to Hell, no pun intended.The revival-of-sorts opened with longtime friends Matt Murdock (played by Charlie Cox), Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) and Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) emerging from their storefront law firm and heading to Josie’s Bar for a night of revelry. When Foggy later ducked out to take a call (from Benny, a panicked witness he had “stashed” in his apartment), Matt peeled off and swung into action as Daredevil. But just as Daredevil closed in on Foggy’s place, he heard Benny say that the intruder simply wanted to know where Foggy was.Realizing that a trap had been set, Daredevil darted back towards Josie’s, but he would arrive too late. Benjamin Poindexter aka Bullseye had emerged from a steam cloud across from Josie’s and put a bullet into Foggy’s chest. A bereft Karen stayed with Foggy as Daredevil gave chase, trading blow after blow with the Marvel’s Daredevil Season 3 adversary, chasing him up to the roof for more fighting, and eventually lobbing Foggy’s shooter off the roof, to a near-death four stories below.Foggy, though, had faded. Succumbing to the gunshot wound. Dead at Karen’s side.Cut to: one year later, where Matt has hung up his supersuit and joined a new law firm. At Poindexter’s sentencing (11 consecutive life sentences, without parole), Karen slips in the back, and we soon learn that Matt peaced out on her for weeks in the wake of Foggy’s murder/Matt’s attempted murder of Bullseye. Karen in turn moved to San Francisco, and has rebuffed Matt’s repeated attempts at outreach.“I refuse to believe that a tragedy had to destroy everything,” Matt lamented to Karen. “But it did,” she maintained.Elsewhere in the first episode: Matt sought face time with longtime adversary Wilson Fisk (whose wife, Vanessa, is quietly and capably lording over his criminal empire while he seeks the mayoralty). Fisk claimed that “after some time away” (watch Echo), he achieved “a new Zen” that led to his pursuit of public office, to help New York. Matt warned the seemingly sincere politician to “stay in his lane” or else; Fisk in turn assured Matt that when he is mayor, there will be “consequences” for anyone running around in “silly costumes.” We also saw Matt and a shrink named Heather (Revenge‘s Margarita Levieva) get roped into a blind date that they then nearly bailed on, only to realize they do in fact have a connection.In the video above (and via excerpts below), series lead Charlie Cox, showrunner Dario Scardapane, executive producer Sana Amanat and the directing team of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (who together helmed Episode 1 as well as 8 and 9) break down the long-held decision to kill off Foggy, how series vet Elden Henson took the news, and how the directors aimed to underscore the magnitude of the loss with the fight sequence that accompanied it…. When production paused for the dual Hollywood strikes in the summer of 2023, Marvel execs took a close look at the six or so episodes that had been filmed for Daredevil: Born Again, and ordered a creative overhaul. Out went co-showrunners Chris Ord and Matt Corman, and in came Dario Scarpadane, a writer and executive producer from Netflix’s The Punisher. Did Foggy die in that original take on the series, or did that come with the revamp?“To honestly answer the question, yeah,” Foggy’s fate always was a tragic one, Scarpadane tells TVLine. But the incoming showrunner saw an opportunity to give that dark twist additional heft. “It was in the material that I inherited, but unfortunately it was off-screen,” he told me. “And I felt really strongly that if we were to do something that earth-shattering and something that was going to cause such a ripple effect in Matt’s life, we had to see it and we had to feel it.”Henson appeared in 38 of 39 episodes of Netflix’s Marvel’s Daredevil series, and Foggy does come first in the Nelson, Murdock & Page law firm name. So as you might imagine, news of his character’s fate was quite the surprise. “The conversation with Elden was pretty hard,” says showrunner Dario Scardapane — who penned the series’ new premiere episode — “and pretty cool, in the sense that he understood.” That said, “he was bummed about it,” the EP makes clear.“I think he was just surprised it was happening, so there was a little bit of, ‘Oh, OK. This is awesome,’” executive producer Sana Amanat recalls. “Of course it’s all very, very, very bittersweet, but he really enjoyed being together” with former scene partners Charlie Cox and Deborah Ann Woll, if only for those few opening scenes.Sharing the screen once again with Marvel’s Daredevil co-stars Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson, only to bid adieu to the latter after just a few lines of dialogue, was “a real tough pill to swallow,” Charlie Cox tells TVLine.“When that was talked about in the beginning, I couldn’t quite get my head around that,” the English actor shares. “I often think of Foggy Nelson as the heartbeat of the MCU. He’s integral to Matt’s life, Matt’s history… and Elden has done such a beautiful job with that character for so many years.”But in reviving the series for Disney+, six years since Marvel’s Daredevil, “I understand … that we need to make a big splash,” Cox notes. “We want to rock the boat early on and draw people in in a new way. [Killing Foggy] is one way to do it, but it’s a big choice.”When showrunner Dario Scardapane decided to show Foggy’s murder on-screen, it fell upon Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead — the directors of the premiere (as well as Episodes 8 and 9) — to underscore the moment with a Daredevil/Bullseye fight that unfolds inside and above Josie’s, all as Matt’s friend draws what will be his final breaths.The question for the directors was: “How do we treat this?” says Moorhead. “One, it needs to be an atom bomb on the lives of everybody in this show. It needs to ripple out not just for that episode or that moment [but] through Episode 9. And it does.“The other thing,” Moorhead continues, “is we wanted to make sure that the moment felt simultaneously highly emotional but it also doesn’t just blow on by. That’s why there’s the punctuation mark of a oner, a one-take [fight scene]. “The effort and conversation that went into that,” amongst everybody, “was absolutely enormous,” Moorhead recalls, “and we think that one of the reasons that people got behind it is they knew how serious what was happening during and at the end of that shot is. Making [Foggy’s death] the end of one of Daredevil’s legendary one-take fight scenes for us was a way to begin his eulogy.”Want scoop on Daredevil: Born Again, or for any other TV show? Shoot an email to InsideLine@tvline.com, and your question may be answered via Matt’s Inside Line!Comments are monitored, so don’t forkin’ curse and don’t bore us with how much your coworker’s sister-in-law makes per hour. Talk smart about TV! Comment * Name * Email * Your email address will not be published. We will notify you when someone replies.

ΔSucks to lose Foggy that quickly.. really hope that isn’t the last we see of Karen as well…Since Deborah joined the project later, and they’re keeping six of the originally filmed episodes as-is, I wouldn’t expect to see her again for a while. Probably not before episode 8 at the earliest. But, if you’ve read the Born Again storyline from the comics, you know that Karen is gone for a really long time and when she comes back, it’s in a BIG, legendary way. The show isn’t exactly adapting that storyline beat for beat–Daredevil Season 3 on Netflix already adapted a lot of it–but thematically I expect them to put Matt through essentially the same journey of breaking him all the way down and building him back up, and I really hope that story beat for Karen is one they keep. Hopefully her role at the end of the season and in S2 is as large and important as it is in the comic storyline that has given this show its name.something felt off with the cinematography: the coloring, the lighting. The stark difference from Netflix was jarring. Not sure how I feel about this reboot yet. I fell asleep for a few minutes towards the end, so that’s not a good sign.Yeah, I did too. Haven’t watched ep 2 yet, and the post below from Kayell has me thinking I may put it on the back-burner for now.Same here…Apparently they did more reshoots because there wasn’t enough daredevil/action. They only added one scene of DD at the very beginning, while also providing continuity with the death of Foggy, and it was an electric start to the series. But man, the rest of those two episodes was indeed meandering slog. Fell asleep midway through the second episode, was really hard to stay awakeHow did Bullseye survive the fall? I forget what happened to him in the Netflix seriesIt ended with him waking up in the middle of some surgery they were doing on his spine, so I assume that gave him regenerative ability or something similar.They were melding metal to his bones, in a similar but not exact fashion to Wolverine. Which in the comics is even more like Wolverine, but that’s a whole other story.The start was electric. The rest was boring. Was the budget not great?Disappointing. Why dont they know how to structure a tv show? The episodes were dull and the action looked like it was tacked on as an afterthought. Also the chemistry between DD and his new friends barely registers.I don’t know that I agree with most of your post, but I do agree with the last sentence. If there’s one overriding weakness to the show, their plan and then need because of what they’d filmed to be their own thing hurts it. There was more chemistry with the lead characters in the Netflix show immediately, and there’s no here, except for the carryover of Murdock and Fisk. Heck, in 5 minutes of opening screen time there’s more chemistry with the old team than there is in two whole episodes with everyone else. His love interest is bland and doesn’t seem to have any of the crazy of the comics in her, and just seems like another Sopranos nod. And his co-workers aren’t any better. His law partner and cop turned PI couldn’t be more cookie cutter.I’m pretty sure “Heather Glenn” is just a name they borrowed from the Born Again comics storyline for an entirely new character they had written. I don’t see anything of the comics character in her and I doubt any or her story, or her fate, will be the same.Writing was meh at best. No emotional build-up to Foggy’s death. Just sort of there. Waste of bullseye’s appearance in the series. Hopefully, he returns for a much bigger story arc. Overall, there first two episodes were fine, not great. Reserving judgement on the series until I’ve seen it all, but seems like the MCU is weak on episodic storytelling, which was the strength of the Netflix iteration of Daredevil.“Hey, we’re bringing back your favorite character. Come watch!”Minutes later…“He’s dead, Jim.”Total bait and switch.The actress who plays Karen Page is named Deborah Ann Woll. You keep calling her “Debra” Ann Woll throughout the article.All fixed, thanks for the catch; I had Debra Jo Rupp on my brain.I get the two of them confused all the time. 😉Overall I found the premiere underwhelming. I can’t help but dislike the new characters because I’d rather be seeing Karen and Foggy instead. Although it’s still very “gritty” it just doesn’t have the same feel as the original and I thought the lighting really ruined the action sequence in Episode 1. And if you haven’t seen the Netflix series I think this show would be quite hard to understand how the characters all relate to each other or why Matt is compelling.The whole point of killing off Foggy offscreen was probably to still give Matt the character development, but to also allow them to undo the death later on.Not on board. I realize the comparison isn’t straight apples to apples, but after the Veronica Mars continuation burned the fans so badly, I wait for stuff like this to reveal itself before I commit. I’m not going to be yanked around, so this helped me decide not to watch.If you voted C, D or – absolutely inexplicably – F, please come on here and explain what caused you to vote that way. I’m not looking at all to challenge how anyone voted, but I truly cannot understand it.I voted B, but I could see C. Some things might not work for people. I’m not sure it deserves an overwhelming A, but that’s how all these polls go. If you are reading about it you probably liked it. But I’d love to hear your explanation of what it did so perfectly to get an A. (To be fair the voting choices are naturally limited. You might think it’s a B+ or something but that’s not an option). And I’m going to guess at least a percentage of the small percent who voted D or F, and that aren’t just being contrarian or haters probably REALLY didn’t like what they did to Foggy, and it soured them on the whole thing. I actually didn’t like it that much myself, but they did it well enough that I accepted it. If they wanted to stay closer to the comics it probably should have been Karen, but they weren’t going to do that, for a variety of reasons.One can also ask you the same? Why did you grade it so highly? I gave this newest incarnation of Daredevil a “C” because it couldn’t overcome the baggage of its predecessor. The cinematography was different. The pacing was much slower. The character development of the supporting cast was underwhelming. This show needs more action scenes. These are the reasons why I gave it a “mid” grade. At this point, I’m only going to continue watching to see if i can improve, but based on my first impression, it’s in danger of becoming a “play in the background” show for me. I’m not invested in it, but I hope to be.I thought Foggy and Karen were Bing worked back into the reboot. For Foggy to be worked in and killed was not what fans of the Netflix series wanted. I am very disappointed with that decision.When did daredevil get the ability to swing like Spider-Man? It looked so fake. Another disappointment to something I have been looking forward to.I enjoyed it, though I can see why some wouldn’t have. Bringing back Foggy and Karen just to immediately write one out permanently and another at least for a while was a bit disappointing, although you can see the story reasons for it. Pacing was a bit off, and a few of the threads seem like a deliberate echo of the original series (BB Urich for example, and Fisk’s new assistant seems like a poor man’s Wesley).
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The “oner” and the violence and tone were reminiscent of the original though, and D’Onofrio is always compelling to watch, the scene with him and Cox in the diner was excellent.Ha! I was calling him Wesley when we were watching it last night.Foggy is one of my favorite characters and I’m so upset about him being killed off. What about Marci? I recall them being together when we saw Foggy before this. Like I feel that she would have been in court if nothing else.I agree, the Matt and Fisk scenes were excellent as always. I love watching them together.I can’t believe they killed off Foggy! I really hope this twist leads to some interesting developments in the series. What do you all think about the direction they’re taking?I can’t believe they killed off Foggy! That twist was totally unexpected. I hope they bring him back somehow. Daredevil needs his best friend!Are we supposed to ignore that DD was buried under an exploding building the last time we saw him? Or is that just being ignored?That was resolved in the Marvel’s Daredevil Season 3 premiere, which followed The Defenders.By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy.
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