It’s official: Krysten Ritter will return as Jessica Jones in the Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again for Season 2, it was revealed at Disney’s Upfront presentation in New York City.
Ritter played Jessica Jones in the eponymous Netflix series, which ran for three seasons from 2015 to 2019. The character existed within the same universe as Daredevil, played by Charlie Cox. Cox reprised the role of blind lawyer Matt Murdock in Daredevil: Born Again, set several years after the original series.
In the Season 1 finale, we’re left with Vincent D’Onofrio’s Mayor Fisk aka Kingpin squeezing his gangster grip on New York City as he and his wife Vanessa (Ayelet Zurer) try to create a separate city-state in the Red Hook port. Matt Murdock, back in the red get-up, swears to take the city back for the greater good of everybody. Old friends Karen (Deborah Ann Woll) and Frank Castle aka The Punisher (Jon Bernthal) assist Matt with his crusade.
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