Original ‘Daredevil’ Showrunner Calls Out ‘Disney Scam’ of Naming New Series ‘Daredevil: Born Again’: It ‘Resets Contract Terms Back to First Season’ - eviltoast

“It’s an old Disney scam where they slightly rename a series to reset contract terms back to first season,” DeKnight wrote on X/Twitter. “Needs to be addressed by all the guilds/unions and crushed!”

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    Makes no sense if it’s the same premise, same major characters and basically the same recipe as the original – which seems to be its selling point. But the mouse fucks over whoever it can.

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      It’s going to be some kind of a soft reboot. It won’t be the same show. It’s not even going to have Karen and Foggy.

      I don’t know if it’ll be good, or not. I just know, it won’t be a 4th season of The Daredevil we know.

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        Weird that they didn’t hire back the two best characters on the show, especially since Deborah Ann Woll has made it clear she’s still interested.

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          If Deborah Ann Woll wants to be in their show and Deborah Ann Woll is not in their show, I fear a lot of bad decisions are going into the production of their show.

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        That will be the sticking point. If this is a continuation of the Netflix series, resetting the contract terms will be messed up.

        If it’s not a continuation, it’s still kind of messed up that they’re going with the less generous contract terms. I also personally think that would be a bad decision just from a creative standpoint. People wanted more of the Netflix Daredevil, not Disney-fied Daredevil with some of the same actors.

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          Get ready for CGI fest Daredevil. Remember him doing CGI backflips and shit in She-Hulk? Welcome to Disney’s Daredevil haha.

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            Don’t you think this show will be a little more than a vague reference or a quick cameo? I think you’re making a really disingenuous argument here.

            And those cameos or shared-universe things should be negotiated anyway and probably are. It actually is also somewhat helpful for the show to share the universe with another popular show, otherwise they wouldn’t do that. But this isn’t that. This is them going “you liked Netflix’s Daredevil, so here, enjoy”. That’s their selling point. It’s not from the makers of Daredevil, it’s the same Daredevil.

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          Part of the issue is that Disney’s media group continues to put out high quality content year after year. Plus their services like theme parks remain in high demand after several years of steep price hikes. How do you compete with that?

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          The Daredevil series is worth my money! I just don’t want most of it to pay for Disney’s public domain lobbying.

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    They mention that it is “an old Disney scam”, are there other examples of this? I can’t think of any but I’m curious to know how those other examples played out.

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        Interesting. I looked up this show and it looks like it kept the same creator credits. I do wonder if there was some secret behind the scenes things going on, or if some other shenanigans happened (obviously if it’s supposed to be a secret, it’s hard to find.)

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      The Disney kids shows where the last season or 2 are in an entirely new location than the first ones. Suite life on deck is an example

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      It’s one of their go to moves on Disney channel for their popular series. Suite life, Hannah Montana, lab rats, Liv and Maddie.

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      I’m not being sarcastic, check out every single Disney series that runs longer than a few seasons. Every. Single. One.

      Much like a CEO that gets fired by the shareholders if he misses and avenue for profit, I have no doubt that CEO would fire producers that didn’t do the same thing.

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    I thought his inclusion in She-Hulk was fun, and it was nice to see a more lighthearted take on the character. Having said that, though, I hope the tone of the Disney series is mostly like the original.

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      Yes. What I wish from Marvel television is a buch of different series, different genres, and tones, who still exist in the same world and occasionally interact with each other. Thats what Marvel comics do.

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        We were getting that with the Netflix and even ABC shows. Sadly, they’ve gone for quantity over quality with the Disney+ shows and nothing TV-MA exists in the MCU anymore. The new book that shows the official timeline completely leaves out all shows that weren’t made for Disney+.

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            Those shows are legitimately just shitty movies broken down to bite size 20 minute chunks. I thought Quibi died already?!

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          This is the worst part. It’s so watered down now. So many Marvel and SW shows I’m just never going to watch, especially since my experience with the last few has been so bad.

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        Really, not even the issues where Daredevil pretended to have a twin brother, Mike Murdock, to throw Karen and Foggy off his trail after Spider-Man sent them a handwritten letter telling them he knows Matt is Daredevil?

        I mean I certainly prefer the grittier Daredevil that Frank Miller helped define, but initially he was kind of a knockoff of Spider-Man and had some sillier adventures

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    It is an old Disney trick but I think this is different. Kevin Feige had very little say about the old marvel shows, he butted heads a lot with the guy who was in charge of the TV shows, Ike Perlmutter. Ike was a piece of shit and is no longer in charge, so you can’t really blame Kevin Feige for wanting to wipe the slate clean. I’ve been thankful he decided to keep the two biggest names from the original show but in no way was the new show going to be a continuation, unlike the other examples listed in the comments

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      He can reset it creatively if he wants but to every actor and crew member involved it’s still just a new season of the same show.

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        I know it’s super late but I just saw this and it bothers me a little bit. I think literally anyone that was involved in the old show should be considered lucky for being able to work on the new one. It’s a different show based on the same characters that the old show was based on, with your logic, everyone involved in the Gotham show are also entitled to be involved with Pennyworth and the Penguin show with Colin Ferrell. When they made the Flash TV show with Grant Gustin, it was fun and special that the guy who played flash in the 90’s TV show played his dad. But in no way should anyone from the 90s show be entitled to anything creative or otherwise from the new one.

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          This isn’t decades later it’s a few years. And they brought back both the lead character and lead villain. The crew I understand it’s a few years most have probably found other sets to work on but foggy and Karen are also stars of that show and no one is going to think that the original series isn’t canon. They made daredevil the character he is today just as much as the guy who plays Matt, who’s name escapes me at this very moment.

          I’m not saying everyone involved in the Ben Affleck daredevil needs to be hired again.

          Yeah they are still officially canon. I understand if they play less of a role as it becomes more of an extended universe and they have to focus on daredevil and other main characters, but to completely snub them is fucked up. Doubly so if they recast them.

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            Well it was my understanding that nothing from the show will be canon and they will be recasting Foggy. If I’m mistaken and those characters from the show are canon, then I agree with you.