Daredevil showrunner Stephen DeKnight responded to some fan commentary this weekend, explaining the budget is the main reason Daredevil: Born Again this looks different from the Netflix version. On Friday, a fan account posted a supercut of action scenes from the Disney+ shows where we’ve seen Daredevil fight, noting that he looks “more agile and acrobatic,” and is “moving more like comic Daredevil since he got into the MCU.” DeKnight explained that this was something the team always wanted to improve on the Netflix show, but only in the Disney+ era were they given the budget they needed.
It’s unclear if this refers to CGI, choreography, or a combination of the two.“It’s purely a financial issue,” he wrote. “On the Netflix show, we didn’t have the money to do this.
If we had, we would have.” DeKnight can speak authoritatively here, as he was the original showrunner for Daredevil in 2015 as well. It was his second job as showrunner following his Starz series Spartacus, which he created as well.
He certainly has experience with dynamic action, and commenters assured him they were not disappointed with Daredevil back in 2015.Image courtesy of Marvel StudiosDeKnight only handled the first season of Daredevil, after which he moved on to a writers room for the Transformers franchise, then to write and direct Pacific Rim Uprising. He has not returned to the MCU since then, and is not working on Born Again.
That series comes from showrunner Dario Scardapane, t.
