Netflix’s Daredevil set the bar high for Disney+’s follow-up series, Daredevil: Born Again. Fans were a bit disappointed when star Charlie Cox revealed the new show won’t be “as gory”, though he did say it will still be for more mature audiences. While audiences got a kick out of seeing Matt Murdock give Peter Parker legal advice in Spider-man: No Way Home, many were less than thrilled when his alter ego, Daredevil, took to the streets to help She-Hulk punch some bad guys. The rather comical scene fell flat. But hope remains that Daredevil: Born Again will find the right tone.

That said, Daredevil: Born Again seems to following She-Hulk in one other respect. The new 18-episode order will spend considerable time focusing on Murdock’s legal career–something that was only touched on in Netflix’s Daredevil.  Cox teased this back in December 2022 when he revealed:

“I think because of the number of episodes they’ve committed to, there’ll be a heavy influence of courtroom stuff—Matt Murdock, the lawyer in the new show. So I’m heavily focused on researching that area of this character and his life.”

Daredevil: Born Again Adds Three Former Lawyers To Its Writing Room

Now, this emphasis on Murdock’s legal career has been all but confirmed with the hiring of three lawyers to write for the show. According to The Cosmic Circus, Marvel Studios has hired experienced attorneys David Feige, Thomas Wong, and Zachary Reiter as writers for Daredevil: Born Again.

David Feige

David Feige has written for various law-related TV programs, including a reboot of The Firm and the TNT legal drama series Raising the Bar. He also produced For Life, which saw a prison inmate become a lawyer to overturn his wrongful conviction. Feige likely drew from his experience as a real-life lawyer. As a NYC public defender, he started a nonprofit bail organization, The Bronx Freedom Fund and later he wrote a memoir, Indefensible: One Lawyer’s Journey into the Inferno of American Justice.

Thomas Wong

Thomas Wong, who has a background in racial issues, food & wine, sexuality/gender, and the legal system, has written for TV shows Minority Report and Good Trouble. But his main experience is writing for Bull which, according to the logline on IMDB, is about Dr. Bull who “combines psychology, human intuition, and high-tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses, and the accused tick.”

Zachary Reiter

Zachary Reiter, a former prosecutor in Queens, has experience with homicide investigations and has written for Law & Order: Organized Crime and CSI: New York. He also worked on The Firm with David Feige and his brother Lukas Reiter.

What To Expect?

At 18 episodes for the first season, Daredevil: Born Again will have the longest episode count for any MCU TV show, excluding Agents of S.H.IE.L.D., which isn’t canon and was produced by ABC. Indeed, Daredevil: Born Again follows close to the old 22-episode count of television seasons. Delving into the character’s psyche and how he deals with the difficulties of being a lawyer-by-day and vigilante-by-night appears will likely be a major focus of the show. There is much tension to be explored in this conflict–Matt is working against the very law he serves as a lawyer.

Unlike She-Hulk, Murdock is not the superhero lawyer to meta-humans. Vigilantes go after the criminals the justice system won’t. So it is an interesting and conflicting dimension of Matt Murdock/Daredevil that needs to be explored. Putting more focus on Murdock’s legal career will silence complaints many had about Netflix’s Daredevil.