Original ‘Daredevil’ Showrunner Calls Out ‘Disney Scam’ of Naming New Series ‘Daredevil: Born Again’: It ‘Resets Contract Terms Back to First Season’
Original ‘Daredevil’ Showrunner Calls Out ‘Disney Scam’ of Naming New Series ‘Daredevil: Born Again’: It ‘Resets Contract Terms Back to First Season’
Steven DeKnight, who served as the showrunner on the first season of Netflix’s “Daredevil,” recently took to social media to criticize Disney for running a scam with its upcoming …
“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!”
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.
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.
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.
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.
The suite life of Zach and Cody changing to the suite life on deck
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.)
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
Disney has done this with all the kids shows for years for the same reason
It's one of their go to moves on Disney channel for their popular series. Suite life, Hannah Montana, lab rats, Liv and Maddie.
“Hannah Montana” changed to “Hannah Montana Forever” for its final season.
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.
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.
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.
Tbf daredevil has never been lighthearted
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
Wait until you see...MCU Daredevil haha
Fuck Disney.
I heard talk of this, and I'm a bit curious if this is in fact the reason why they have named it so.
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
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.
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.