Though Marvel Animation’s Marvel Zombies wasn’t the studio’s highest-rated streaming series, the four-episode mini-event captured a massive audience. Ahead of its debut, streaming skipper Brad Winderbaum teased that while there were certainly more zombie tales to be told, viewership numbers would determine whether or not the studio would move forward.
During an appearance on the Escape Pod Podcast, Winderbaum revealed that he had seen the first animatic for the first episode of the new season, teasing that Season 2 will deliver on “an MCU thing that has really never happened before.”
With Marvel Television intent on producing new season of Daredevil: Born Again on an annual cadence, fans will continue to run the risk of learning information about each “next” season before the “current” season completes its run. While it’s easy enough to avoid major spoilers (and as Season 2 will prove, easy enough for the studio to keep major reveals away from the public eye), it’s impossible to keep everything under wraps when much of the series is filmed on the streets of New York City. And with filming on Season 3 underway, a pair of major characters have been confirmed to return to your small screens in 2027.
Behind the scenes photos from the NYC set have revealed that both Krysten Ritter‘s Jessica Jones and Deborah Ann Woll‘s Karen Page will not only be back for Season 3 but will be sharing scenes…with no sign that Charlie Cox‘s Matt Murdock will be joining them.
Karen Page and
🚨 Jessica Jones and Karen Page trailers and JJ stunt double have been spotted on the set of ‘DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN’ Season 3.
Looks like Krysten Ritter will be back as Jessica Jones for the next season.
Shared by Daredevil Shots, the new photos reveal trailers for “Jessica Jones” and “Karen” and “JJ” (reported to be the stunt double for Ritter).
It’s been made clear by Marvel’s streaming skipper Brad Winderbaum that fans should expect more Jessica Jones stories in the future and the photos confirm that at least some portion of those will be told in Daredevil: Born Again Season 3.
It seems the rule of two is alive and well at Lucasfilm. In a massive show of confidence, Disney+ and Lucasfilm have officially renewed the upcoming animated series Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord for a second season—and the first episode hasn’t even hit the streamer yet.
The announcement came via a post on StarWars.com and an extensive profile in Esquire, where Lucasfilm President Dave Filoni confirmed that work is already underway on the next chapter of the Zabrak’s criminal odyssey.
Season 1 is set to debut on Monday, April 6, 2026, with a two-episode premiere. The 10-episode first season will follow Maul during the “gap years” between Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Solo, specifically focusing on his journey to becoming the Godfather of the Star Wars universe.
Filoni teased that Season 2 will continue to explore Maul’s descent into the “addiction” of the Dark Side. “In order to quash that feeling of remorse, you have to do it again. And again… and it becomes this way of being,” Filoni told Esquire.
While Season 1 introduces Gideon Adlon as Devon Izara, a disillusioned Padawan whom Maul is attempting to corrupt, the renewal suggests this relationship is the long-term engine of the series, rather than a one-and-done encounter.
Set just one year after the end of The Clone Wars, Shadow Lord is the missing link fans have wanted for a decade. It explains how the broken creature we saw at the end of the war became the sophisticated head of Crimson Dawn. By greenlighting Season 2 now, Filoni is signaling that Maul’s rebuilding phase is a saga, not a sprint.
While Scardapane probably appreciates the job security, writing a television series that’s expected to stretch out into infinity also places a heavy mandate on his plate. For Daredevil: Born Again to ultimately be judged as a great show, not only will Hell’s Kitchen have to become the same sort of living, breathing enclave Frank Miller created in the comics but it’s cast of characters designed to support its dual protagonists will also need to bear the weight of world building, provide tonal shifts and serve–in one way or another–as moral counterweights to the dilemmas faced by the leads. With a pair of beloved stars like Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio, protagonist fatigue doesn’t seem likely but Scardapane and the rest of the show’s writers must still build in safeguards against it by creating a supporting cast that does more than fill screentime..and so far, those results have been decidedly mixed.
After the opening episode of the new season established Daredevil as the enemy of Wilson Fisk’s police state, episodes 2 and 3, titled “Shoot the Moon” and “The Scales & The Sword”, respectively, spend their narrative currency on the tissue that connects the revolutionary and the regime to the reality faced by those who while not the public-facing symbols of the struggle, belong to the society or are actively taking part in its downfall. While this includes characters such as Karen, Vanessa, Jacque Duquesne and Bullseye, the latest double dip spends more time on Fisk’s collaborators Daniel Blake, Buck Cashman and, and Heather Glenn, in addition to BB Urich, whose role in the propaganda war puts both her and Blake at risk, and Kirsten McDuffie. While each of these characters has a defined role in this revolution, some of them are simply more interesting than others.
By choosing to canonize the Netflix series, Marvel (and perhaps Scardapane) chose to accept all the consequences of the choices (both good and bad) made by those writers and none resonates more loudly than the decision to kill Ben Urich. An absolute cornerstone of Daredevil’s Marvel Comics lore, Ben was killed by Fisk at the end of Season 1 of Daredevil…an act that you’ll be constantly reminded of in season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again. Without spoiling the entire season, it’s safe to say that not even Scardapane could write himself out of that particular hole and, as such, BB–and her relationship with Blake, the “heir unapparent”– just too often feel as an effort to right that wrong. And don’t get me started on Blake.
On a positive note, Scardapane seems to enjoy enhancing the parallel paths of Murdock and Fisk by pairing the arcs of characters in their respective orbits. Karen and Vanessa. BB and Blake. Heather and Kirsten. The AVTF and the AdT (Angela del Toro). Buck and…Foggy (gasp). In episodes 2 and 3, the writers leverage the supporting characters by setting them in ideological opposition to one another. As Vanessa tries to convince Wilson to leave New York, Karen and Matt talk about staying put. As the AVTF cracks down, AdT levels up. As the Deputy Mayor of New York City for Communications elevates his position in the regime, BB digs deeper and becomes the underground press, attempting to strip away the facade of fear by mocking the Kingpin. Buck serves as Kingpin’s loyal capo, weaponizing authority, while Foggy’s absence–and his adherence to the idealism of the system–allows Matt to teeter on the edge of disappearing behind the mask.
The transition between episodes accentuates these polarities as the cracks in both sides begin to show, both literally and figuratively. Karen’s radicalization (Matt compares her thought process to that of Frank Castle) and Vanessa’s gaslighting (convincing Heather of her security while fearing for her own); Heather dissociates and descends into madness as Kirsten grounds herself in the reality of the populace; state-sponsored security becomes state-sponsored terror. The final straw, of course, is the farcical trial of Jack Duquesne, in which Heather’s lack of morality and the Kingpin’s influence over the Vigilante Trials conclude with a guilty verdict handed down to a LARPer. By publicly executing the spirit through the illusion of due process, Fisk unwittingly hands the resistance its eventual winning hand.
For the entertainment of the masses. Presented in all it’s ugly glory by then whose hand holds the scale.
-Jack Duquesne
And, of course, the wild card becomes increasingly wild…but it’s not time for his story just yet. Through 12 episodes, Daredevil: Born Again has patiently painted a picture of a pair of protagonists prepared to prove his love for his city is greater than the other’s; however, the cumulative scar tissue on the city and its inhabitants–the sinew of the story–and each man is increasingly faced with losing something they love, even if only the blind man can see it coming.
“You’re meeting a Vision who has died and come back to life, who is sort of reconnecting with his memories, and his feelings, and is going through a bit of an identity quest,” explained showrunner Terry Matalas, who took creative control of the project from Jac Schaeffer. And while there’s certainly a timer running on how long Vizh can stay on the sidelines and how long the studio can wait to reunite the Maximoff twins, it sounds as though the story told in VisionQuest–or at least some its characters–could live on beyond a first season.
When asked by The Direct if a second season of the series was a possibility or if it would be a one-off, standalone series, Matalas left the door open. “I think that’s up to the Marvel and Disney Gods. It doesn’t necessarily have to,” Matalas said. “There is a group of characters in situations that are certainly on their own island, if you will. Trying to figure out how to say this… You could very much see these characters again, if you want.“
Outside of the clever play on words about characters on their own island (most of the series is reportedly set on Madripoor), Matalas‘ words indicate that at least some of the series main characters find themselves positioned for a future in the MCU even if VisionQuest is the end of the WandaVision trilogy. Even if Matalas is being cagey, there are plenty of ways a series full of A.I. characters could live on beyond the Multiverse Saga.
The DCU is about to get the mockumentary treatment. In a report first shared by Variety, DC Studios is officially developing a prestige true crime docuseries centered on Superman’s pal, Jimmy Olsen.
Following his breakout performance in James Gunn’s Superman, Skyler Gisondo is set to reprise his role for the HBO Max original. But this isn’t your typical superhero spinoff—it’s an investigative deep-dive into the criminal underworld of the DC Universe.
In what might be the most inspired creative pairing of Chapter 1, DC has tapped Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault—the minds behind the Peabody Award-winning American Vandal—to write, showrun, and executive produce. The show is described as a grounded, noir-inflected mystery that focuses on Daily Planet staff members as they navigate a world of institutional corruption and metahuman conspiracies
The series is framed as a fictionalized true-crime investigation hosted by Jimmy. Season 1 will focus entirely on the criminal history of Gorilla Grodd. Reframing the iconic Flash foe as a subject for an investigative documentary allows the DCU to explore Grodd’s “layered psychological profile” and his path from scientific experiment to global threat through archival footage and “interviews”.
By moving the American Vandal duo into the DCU, Gunn is doubling down on his promise to diversify the “tone, scale, and format” of the franchise. This isn’t just a spinoff; it’s an experiment in genre-bending that could change how we view comic book villains forever.
Since its inception, Marvel’s streaming spin on Daredevil has been heavily inspired by Frank Miller; however, in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, showrunner Dario Scardapane chose to lean into the theological elements that Miller–who was raised as an Irish Catholic–introduced into the character’s mythos. Indeed, under Miller‘s short-lived pen, Murdock’s Catholicism emerged as an architectural framework for the character.
Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1
It’s not just the gritty, noir-inspired spin on the character that Miller made famous that makes him synonymous with Daredevil. It was Miller‘s recognition that a lawyer moonlighting as a vigilante provided a perfect gateway to explore Matt Murdock’s inner-struggle laid the groundwork for the character’s turbulent internal conflict: is he a good man doing bad things or a bad man trying to break good? Miller, an Irish Catholic himself, believed that only a Catholic could manage to handle the contradicting duality that has come to define Daredevil. By leaning heavily into Hell’s Kitchen, a historically Irish-American enclave, Miller was able to build an entire theological scaffold around Murdock, and from it emerged the irony of a guilt-ridden Catholic dressing as the devil while fighting crime. By the time he wrote Born Again in 1986, Miller had codified Catholicism into Daredevil’s DNA. And though it is sometimes only in the subtext, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 circumspectly examines one of the crucial contradictions that torments Matt Murdock: how does a man who believes in a merciful God go about living in a merciless world? And almost unbelievably, the season finale dares to answer that question.
Mercy. Grace. Justice not vengeance. Forgiveness. Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 balances and explores these and more key tenets of Catholicism but what’s most impressive is how strong writing allows them to emerge organically throughout the season as Matt Murdock, not Daredevil, begins to be reborn. Perhaps one of the show’s strongest elements is how those in Murdock’s orbit react and respond to him as he chooses mercy, forgiveness, justice and grace…and to whom he extends those blessings. In what seems an homage to Miller‘s Born Again, in which the final pages are noticeably brighter despite Matt losing everything, the final scenes of Season 2–which are far too spoilery to be discussed–are noticeably brighter as well, providing a sense of a man no longer at war with himself. As Fisk told Murdock, tragedy can transform a man, and the season finale certainly finds both men transformed. While production on a third season of Born Again is already underway, the Season 2 finale serves as a fitting denouement of the series that was originally announced at SDCC ’23.
I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn’t do anything. I mean, he’s blind. It wasn’t that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I’d always wanted to do a crime comic.
-Frank Miller
Now fully in creative control, Scardapane deftly uses the second season to provide a definitive resolution to the wonderfully written diner scene from “Heaven’s Half Hour”, the first episode of the revival, in which a tense meeting over coffee ends with both men swearing they’ve left their alter egos behind them, slowly devolves into a pissing match between the better angels of their natures. In it, it is revealed that both of them believe they can transform both themselves and the city they love; however, Season 2 reveals that neither of them is remotely capable of such a change. The new season makes good on the parallel paths of the pilot, bringing them back to confront each other and themselves. Both Murdock and Fisk believed they could save the city, yet their resulting feud set it on fire.
I was raised to believe in grace. To be touched by the divine and transform. So if you say to me you’re a new man, I say fine. But you should know I was also raised to believe in retribution. So if you step out of line…I will be there.
Calculatedly, the new batch of episodes resonate thematically with each of the seasons of Netflix’s Daredevil without exploring those beats through the same lenses. Even as one episode spends significant time doing some retconning in a flashback set during Season 1 of Daredevil, the writers take every opportunity to subvert expectations, challenging characters in scenarios fans would expect other characters to face. As a second season, those challenges and their repercussions allow for character arcs to evolve and resolve and, for some, those resolutions are quite final. The series key players all have agency to make choices without the constraints of external forces, though it’s the choices made by Murdock and Fisk that will reverberate the loudest.
I cannot see the light. So I will be the light. I am Daredevil. And I am not afraid.
-Matt Murdock, Daredevil #612
Built on a narrative framework that honors the heavyweights who created The Man Without Fear, the new season delivers the MCU’s definitive devil, fearlessly ferocious and soaked in equal measures of blood and grace. Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 shrewdly shares the duality of its title character, dressing itself as its Netflix predecessor while continuing to make bold choices that distance it from the original series. The eight episodes crescendo with the final three standing as perhaps the finest of any season, culminating in a finale that is both unpredictable and astonishing. Truly, Daredevil is born again.
As has always been the case in the comics, the supporting cast comes and goes, roles shrink and grow and new players join the game. Of the latter, none are more captivating than Matthew Lillard‘s Mr. Charles, a kingmaker and lynchpin with ties to the MCU’s ongoing narrative and a couple of fan-favorite Defenders. Indeed, it’s once again all connected and the product is truly better for it. Krysten Ritter returns as Jessica Jones, in a role similar in size and impact to Jon Bernthal‘s Season 1 turn, and immediately returns to form, doing significant heavy-lifting, physically and narratively, in a short time. This is representative, perhaps, of Scardapane‘s best decision with Daredevil: Born Again: cutting to the chase with fast-paced episodes that are absent the distended dialogue-heavy scenes that often weighed down the original series.
It looks like Simon Williams isn’t ready for his final bow just yet. Despite being originally billed as a miniseries, Marvel Studios has officially greenlit a second season of Wonder Man for D+.
The news was revealed by the studio via social media and confirmed that both Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Sir Ben Kingsley are set to return for the sophomore season.
Simon Williams and Trevor Slattery will return for Marvel Television's #WonderMan Season 2, co-created by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest, coming to @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/XnOBYrYHaA
While Season 1 was produced under the Marvel Spotlight banner— reserved for more grounded, standalone stories—the series became an immediate breakout hit. It still sits as the #1 show on Disney+, with fans praising its “acting nerd” charm and the undeniable chemistry between its two leads.
Executive producer Brad Winderbaum previously said Season 1 concluded a trilogy for Trevor Slattery (following Iron Man 3 and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings). A second season means the MCU’s greatest actor is officially entering a new, unscripted chapter of his life.
Showrunner Andrew Guest has already been dropping hints about the potential direction of a second season, telling The Direct back in January that if it happened, he’d want to explore “the deal to be worked out” between Simon’s burgeoning superhero status and the restrictive “Doorman Clause” of Hollywood.
Marvel is clearly listening to the fans. Wonder Man was a gamble—dramadey about the craft of acting set in a superhero world—but its success proves there is a massive appetite for character-driven stories.
When news first broke that Matthew Lillard was joining Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, the fancasts went wild—was he the new Norman Osborn? A live-action Alistair Smythe? But as the premiere draws near, the reality is much more interesting. Lillard isn’t playing a costumed man; he’s playing the man who makes the costumes possible.
Lillard’s Mr. Charles–who he describes as having a “Cheshire Cat energy” and a level of chill that should terrify every other player on the board–is exactly the type of character the actor would never be expected to portray.
Lillard found his way to Hell’s Kitchen via a relationship with showrunner Dario Scardapane that originated from the pair’s shared love of Dungeons & Dragons. “I am the Dungeon Master for all these incredibly powerful showrunners,” Lillard joked. Scardapane apparently liked Lillard’s ability to shape a narrative so much that he wrote the role of Mr. Charles specifically to “plus up” the veteran actor’s unique energy.
Mr. Charles is described as a “CIA-style spook” and a global power broker. While Wilson Fisk is busy playing Mayor of New York, Mr. Charles is playing a different game on an international stage. In a world where everyone is terrified of the Kingpin, Mr. Charles is notably “unimpressed.” Lillard teased a “delicious struggle over power” between himself and Vincent D’Onofrio, noting that his character sees Fisk as a big fish in a very small, local pond. And in an interesting bit of tethering, Scardapane has confirmed that Mr. Charles reports directly to Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. He exists in the “Val world,” effectively linking the events of Born Again to the larger Thunderbolts* and narrative. So, apparently, it’s all connected again.
Despite the high stakes, Scardapane says the scariest thing about Mr. Charles is how “regular” he looks. He’s the guy wearing a plaid button-up and slacks to a tense dinner at Gracie Mansion, completely relaxed while everyone else is buttoned-down and bleeding. Lillard himself admits he’s “chewing scenery” in a world that is otherwise incredibly grounded and tense.
Whether Mr. Charles is there to help Fisk or pave the way for his replacement remains among the season’s biggest mysteries.
When Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones steps back onto the rain-slicked streets of Hell’s Kitchen in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, she won’t be the same person we left behind in 2019. In a move that prioritizes narrative weight over easy nostalgia, showrunner Dario Scardapane has confirmed that the MCU is leaning into the real-world passage of time, treating the seven-year gap since the Netflix era as canon.
Speaking on the character’s evolution, Scardapane made it clear that they aren’t interested in a “frozen in time” version of the character. “One of the things we’ve leaned into is that time has passed… We’re acknowledging that. These characters have matured; they’ve gone through life,” Scardapane told SFX Magazine.
The question driving her return is simple but fascinating: What does it look like for a bourbon-swilling smartass to mature seven years in a world that has been through the Blip and a Kingpin takeover?
The show respects the timeline since Jessica Jones Season 3 ended on Netflix. By the time we see her in Born Again (set in 2027), nearly a decade has passed in-universe since her last standalone adventure. Unlike Matt Murdock, Jessica doesn’t wear a mask. Scardapane noted that this makes her particularly vulnerable in the Mayor Fisk era. While Daredevil can hide in the shadows, Jessica is a known quantity to the Anti-Vigilante Task Force.
The official production notes for Season 2 also highlight a 6-month time jump from the end of Born Again Season 1. This means that by the time Jessica enters the fray, Fisk’s administration has truly taken hold, and the underground resistance—led by Matt and Karen—is in desperate need of a heavy hitter who has gone through life and come out the other side.
By acknowledging the gap, Marvel is finally connecting the dots of the Defenders Saga in a way that feels organic. This isn’t a reboot; it’s a sequel. Scardapane’s reverence for Melissa Rosenberg’s original Netflix run suggests that while Jessica has changed, the hard-edged soul of the character remains intact. She’s just a little older, a little wiser, and likely a lot more dangerous to anyone standing in her way.
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