Disney hires Loki's Benson and Morehead to try to fix its busted Daredevil show

Disney is moving forward with its plans to revamp the first season of its upcoming superhero lawyer series Daredevil: Born Again, sounds like, with THR reporting that the show has now had a whole new creative team attached to it. Which is good, since they fired the last creative team earlier this month, dumping head writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman, and letting the show’s stable of directors for future episodes know their services would no longer be needed.

In their place, the studio has tapped some familiar faces, with Dario Scardapane (who served as an executive producer on Netflix’s Daredevil spin-off The Punisher, before moving over to Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) as showrunner. Future directing duties, meanwhile, have been handed off to well-known directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Morehead, who are mostly known for bizarre and unsettling horror films like The Endless and Something In The Dirt, but who have lately shown a knack for putting a distinctive spin on Marvel house style, first on Moon Knight, and then as head of the directing team on the current second season of Loki.

Born Again’s overhaul has been seen, at least in some ways, as a casualty of this summer’s strikes—is so far as it gave Disney+ execs a chance to take a look at the show they’d made so far and, apparently, go “Ugh.” (None of this is official or anything, but the show as-is has been accused of going too comedic, and too light on the “Matt Murdock dresses like a devil and hits people” parts.) The new version of the series will keep “some scenes and episodes” that have been previously shot, but the incoming creative team will be writing new material to spackle it all together, and, from the sound of it, re-writing and reworking anything that hasn’t already been put on camera.

Born Again is set to star Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio, both reprising their roles from the Netflix Daredevil show.