Daredevil is set to return, beating up bad guys through lengthy hallways, this time on the Disney+ platform. Initially, it was announced that Charlie Cox would reprise his role as Matt Murdock, who had a brief appearance on She-Hulk, alongside Vincent D’Onofrio as Kingpin, seen in Echo, and Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, also known as The Punisher. However, the original Netflix universe cast members Elden Henson and Deborah Ann Woll were noticeably absent from the Daredevil: Born Again announcement, a decision that the series’ new showrunner did not agree with when the decision was made to retool Born Again.

Fortunately, Henson and Woll will reprise their roles as Foggy Nelson and Karen Page, respectively, which has generated excitement for Born Again’s premiere on March 4. Foggy and Karen were part of a significant cliffhanger at the end of the series’ Netflix run before its untimely cancellation, as they prepared to establish a new law firm with Matt, making them fundamental to Matt’s world in the show, just as they have been in the comics over the years. When Born Again underwent a creative overhaul after years of work on an iteration that deviated from what made the Netflix show successful, incoming showrunner Dario Scardapane (The Punisher) made it a priority to bring them back. “That was one of the first things I said to the bosses,” he told Empire about his push to rework it. “You can’t do this show without Karen and Foggy. They’re Matt’s family. They’re the heart of his world. You can’t take them out without explaining why, and if that explanation doesn’t ring true, don’t take them out.”

Scardapane further explained how the show felt like it had strayed too far without them. “It was much less the world we knew, and more trying to blaze a new trail,” he pointed out, “but in doing so, they’d forgotten some things that really were necessary to the engine of the story.” Those things being people who are core to what the Daredevil stories are – and so core to Scardapane’s own vision that without them, he wasn’t willing to be a part of the creative process.

“I was willing to lose a job over this one,” he added. “Because Season 3 of the Netflix show ended with a dream, with the names on that napkin. If you don’t pay that off, you’re not giving your characters context. You can’t ignore that dream.”

Daredevil: Born Again, with Scardapane, Foggy, and Karen on board, thankfully, begins streaming on Disney+ on March 4.

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