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Disney+'s upcoming Daredevil: Born Again series brings back the key cast of the hit three-season Netflix series Daredevil seven years later, riding heavily on the goodwill the show and stars Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onfrio earned for that earlier show. According to the new show's boss Dario Scardapane, though, this isn't a new season of the old show in disguise - and in fact, he had serious issues with some elements of the original show that he's fixing with this new one.

"The earlier show, at its best, was fantastic. At its worst, it was two characters in a room talking about what a hero is. I felt that had been done," Scardapane tells SFX Magazine. He specifically calls out what he calls "navel-gazing" in the original show.

While he says he's "not taking swipes," the writer - who was one of many writers on spin-off series The Punisher - was fed up with "characters grousing about their lot in life."

Scardapane says during the Netflix era of shows like Daredevil and The Punisher, there was an "edict" of "longer scenes."

"You had these long five-page scenes of characters hashing it out in order to make space between these massive action sequences," explains the Daredevil: Born Again showrunner. "The way stuff has evolved since then, we're able to do big action sequences at a lot more pace."

Scardapane say that while he has issues with the Netflix Daredevil series, he says its in his "blood". While that show was, in his words "more noir," he is separating his Daredevil show from it by focusing on it being a more "New York crime story." 

Neither Netflix nor Marvel was able to do the "pace and scope" he and his team have done with the new show, he argues. "They were very dark, cinematically, not necessarily story-wise, although there were some dark elements," explains Scardapane. "We're much darker."

Daredevil: Born Again debuts March 4 on Disney+.

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