All of Daredevil’s old friends (and enemies) are apparently coming back for the rebooted Born Again
Karen, Foggy, and Bullseye are all supposedly coming back for Disney Plus' Daredevil: Born Again
Disney and Marvel Studios’ decision to bring back Charlie Cox’s Daredevil for a new series called Daredevil: Born Again has been a real roller coaster for fans of Netflix’s Daredevil series. It was exciting to hear about the show and that Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin would also be returning, plus the news that Jon Bernthal would come back as the big, bad Punisher, but then it was reported that Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson would not be returning as Karen Page and Foggy Nelson—a truly baffling decision, since Daredevil has always been defined by his relationships to the people around him, especially Foggy.
Then the whole project was paused for a full creative overhaul after Marvel Studios bosses were particularly unimpressed by what now-former head writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman had come up with (including the fact that the show had become more of a semi-serious legal show about a blind attorney who didn’t even put on a superhero costume until four episodes in).
But then Echo, which featured D’Onofrio’s Kingpin in a prominent supporting role and had a cameo from Cox’s Daredevil, was really good and seemed like a reassuring sign that Marvel knew what it was doing with these “street-level” characters. Now the good times are going to keep going, with Comic Book reporting that not only will Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson apparently be coming back for Born Again, but that they’ll be joined by Wilson Bethel’s Benjamin Poindexter—a.k.a. Bullseye, the villain who made a particularly brutal impact on the final season of the Netflix show.
Bullseye never got a supervillain costume or name in the old show, so bringing him back would be a good way to do justice to the character’s comics legacy (where he’s the most iconic Daredevil villain, past maybe even the Kingpin himself) and Bethel’s chilling performance. None of this has been confirmed by Marvel, and Comic Book doesn’t say where it got this information, but it’ll be cool if it’s true.