The Man Without Fear is heading into one last battle.
The forthcoming third season of Daredevil: Born Again will be its last one, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. The decision comes about two months after the Marvel Studios show’s third season wrapped filming.
The move also comes as Marvel has quietly parted ways with showrunner Dario Scardapane, whose contract was up and was not renewed. The parting of ways is eyebrow-raising as it means that Scardapane is exiting the show in the middle of post-production. It is unclear who will see the show through completion. One source said post-production is the final stages.
Marvel had no comment.
The series has focused on criminal kingpin Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) becoming mayor of New York and then targeting Daredevil and other vigilantes who are in his way. Season two, which ran in the spring, ended with Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil (Charlie Cox), being sent to prison.
Daredevil: Born Again has had a somewhat rocky run since Disney+ revived the series, which initially ran for three seasons on Netflix from 2015-18. Born Again was greenlit in July 2022 for an 18-episode season, with Matt Corman and Chris Ord as head writers.
Production stopped during the 2023 strikes, at which time Marvel decided to do a creative reset. Corman and Ord — who had aimed for a more episodic structure and less dark tone than the Netflix series had — were let go, and Scardapane, a writer and executive producer on Marvel’s Punisher series at Netflix, came aboard as showrunner. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Loki, Moon Knight) also joined the series as directors and executive producers. The initial order was also split into two seasons and ended up as 17 episodes (nine for season one and eight for season two).
Marvel Television has slowly been shaving off the amount of shows it produces for Disney+. Its latest, VisionQuest, the final installment in the WandaVision trilogy and starring Paul Bettany, is due to debut in October. The final season of Daredevil: Born Again is due to come out in 2027, and nothing is seemingly on the books after that. Disney+ also un-renewed Wonder Man after initially picking up a second season.
However, the company continually has three to five live-action shows in development, and sources say it just greenlit a spy thriller referred to as Zodiac. It is unclear to what the title refers, but the most notable Marvel comics reference is to a criminal organization headed by a villain named Scorpio that featured bad guys themed to the constellations. In the comics, it was known for going head-to-head against S.H.I.E.L.D.