The Heart of Hell’s Kitchen: New “Daredevil: Born Again” Video Celebrates NYC Setting
“Daredevil is a New York superhero” are the first words we hear at the top of a new look at Daredevil: Born Again, which proudly (as any good New Yorker would) boasts about its Big Apple bonafides.
“You have this picaturesque view of the city; the backgrounds are the backgrounds…there are no green screens,” says executive producer Sana Amanat. “We made New York City a character.”
Another key collaborator in agreement that filming in New York City pays off in ways big and small is Matt Murdock himself, Charlie Cox, who says the city’s well-known energy adds to every shot. “The cars, the noise, the visuals, the people. It would be impossible to recreate,” Cox said. “It’s in the fabric of both of these men.”
The men Cox is referring to are his sight-impaired superhero and Vincent D’Onofrio’s brutal criminal super-boss Kingpin. The two are facing off for the first time since they clashed back when Daredevil was a Netflix series from 2015 to 2018. Since then, Matt Murdock had a brief, quite funny cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home and a meatier role in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, while D’Onofrio’s Kingpin has appeared in both Hawkeye and the spinoff series Echo.
“The best thing about New Yorkers is they say whatever they want,” D’Onofrio says in the behind-the-scenes look. That includes, Cox reveals, regular New Yorkers addressing him as “DD” in the middle of a scene.
Daredevil: Born Again will follow the grittier tone established in Echo, which was led by Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez and centered on her tortured past and her relationship with Kingpin. Born Again also includes one of Marvel’s most beloved antiheroes, Jon Bernthal’s The Punisher, as well as former Daredevil cast members Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Wilson Bethel as Bullseye, and Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson. Another alumnus from the original Daredevil is fight and stunt coordinator Philip Silvera, who serves as both stunt coordinator and second unit director for the new series.
Check out the trailer below. Daredevil: Born Again streams on Disney+ on March 4.
Featured image: (L-R) Daredevil/Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and Wilson Fisk / Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio) in Marvel Television’s DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Television. © 2025 MARVEL. All Rights Reserved.
