Here’s another feather in the cap for those eager to see Marvel officially canonize the Netflix shows. Only weeks after the recent Disney+/Hulu series “Echo” further strengthened connections between the two once-disparate franchises, it definitely appears that Kevin Feige has pushed the chips all the way in on bringing back elements of “Daredevil” that fans enjoyed the first time around. This all started, of course, after the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes forced the shutdown of production on “Daredevil: Born Again” and, with unexpected downtime to review footage, the studio was motivated to undergo a creative shakeup. The fallout from this major course-correction didn’t just include the hiring (or rehiring, technically speaking) of “Loki” directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, but the heavily-rumored returns of both Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson and Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page.
Now, with Wilson Bethel allegedly on board (remember, nothing’s set in stone until Marvel — which didn’t comment on this news — says so), he joins a cast that already stars Charlie Cox reprising his role as Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Vincent D’Onofrio as archvillain Wilson Fisk/Kingpin, and Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/The Punisher. New cast members include Sandrine Holt (who steps in to replace Ayelet Zurer as Fisk’s lover Vanessa), Michael Gandolfini, and Margarita Levieva. “Daredevil: Born Again” is tentatively set to debut on Disney+ sometime next year.