For nearly a year, Marvel Studios has been operating according to a new strategy behind the scenes. While fans have yet to see it bear fruit, Marvel Television’s upcoming streaming series, Daredevil: Born Again, will provide the first opportunity to evaluate the studio’s pivot to a more traditional approach to making TV.
In an interview with Comic Book, Marvel Studios’ Head of TV, Streaming, and Animatio, Brad Winderbaum, explained that as part of the studio’s new streaming strategy, the plan is to develop series as annual releases.
Moving forward our priorities have shifted. We’re making shows as shows that can exist as annual releases, more like television.
-Brad Winderbaum
And if you’ve been following along and reading between the lines lately as Winderbaum has made the media rounds while pimping Daredevil: Born Again, you’ve probably come to believe that Daredevil will be the flagship of Marvel’s new D+ strategy. And according to Winderbaum, you’d be right if you did.
In an interview with Screen Rant, Winderbaum revealed the studio’s plan to release Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again in 2026 and its hopes to continue making many more seasons of the Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio-led show.
“That’s the plan,” replied Winderbaum when asked if Daredevil: Born Again was being set up as an annual release. “Season 2 will come out next year, and then hopefully season 3 and season infinity after that. I think this world is extremely rich, and there are many stories to be told on the streets of New York.“
If any character from Marvel Comics vast stable of characters can support a long-running television series, it’s certainly The Man Without Fear. Through three seasons of Netflix’s Daredevil, the showrunners barely scratched the surface of the wealth of characters and stories available to them in the world of Matt Murdock. And given Daredevil: Born Again looks to be largely adapting a very recent comic book arc while mixing in some other elements, Marvel Studios TV division still has over 60 years of material from which to draw which should lead to a lot of good TV.
Source: Screen Rant
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