When Dario Scardapane came aboard as showrunner for Daredevil: Born Again , it was not unlike the bargains struck by the Satan that inspired Matt Murdock’s costume design.

Yes, Scardapane would get to tell a story about Daredevil, the Man Without Fear; and the Kingpin of Crime, Wilson Fisk, both played by fan favorites Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio . And yes, he would get to bring in Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead to direct several episodes. He could even shape some of the plotlines. But he would have to work with footage shot under a previous showrunners’ regime, which Marvel famously scrapped during a work stoppage.

Not so for the second season. “The landscape was open, and that was so liberating,” producer Sana Amanat declared in Empire Magazine . “We were like, ‘We

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