With Matt Murdock returning for Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again next month, don’t expect Mister Fantastic or Spider-Man to stop by Hell’s Kitchen for a visit.
Ahead of the sophomore season’s March 24 premiere on Disney+, showrunner Dario Scardapane recently explained why, despite him being “into it,” the series won’t crossover with characters from the wider MCU.
“I’d be into it, because I dig the comics!” Scardapane told SFX Magazine. “But no… That’s been kind of a fun and challenging thing.”
Previously, Charlie Cox reprised his role as Daredevil/Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) and the 2022 Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Meanwhile, Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin/Wilson Fisk popped up in two episodes of Hawkeye in 2022.
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Scardapane added, “We know there’s that huge world out there of the MCU. This corner of it has crossovers. We’ve seen Daredevil in other shows, there are other characters that are going to be popping up in movies and stuff, and that all goes into the larger MCU of it all.
“The joke we make is, ‘Oh, those guys are uptown – we’re downtown!’ We kind of have a pocket that’s in this world of Hell’s Kitchen, in this world of New York,” he explained. “I always think that maybe these characters take little vacations into the larger world but the story that we’re focusing on is really granular.
A continuation of the Netflix series Daredevil (2015-’18), Season 2 of Born Again will feature the return of Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones. Despite the shows referencing the events of The Avengers (2012), the Netflix shows Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders and The Punisher existing in their own MCU bubble separate from the rest of the films and series.