Daredevil: Born Again editors were given bold instructions to stray clear from the Netflix original

Daredevil: Born Again takes place after the events of the Netflix show Daredevil. The Netflix series ran from 2015 to 2018, and while it shares some of its characters and cast with the new Disney+ show, it was initially meant to have a completely different voice.

Daredevil: Born Again editors Cedric Nairn-Smith, Stephanie Filo, and Melissa Lawson Cheung recently spoke with Awards Radar and revealed how they were asked to stay away from the Netflix Daredevil series when they were editing Daredevil: Born Again.

Daredevil: Born Again editors were told not to lean into Netflix's Daredevil

Set after the events of Daredevil, Daredevil: Born Again, according to Marvel, is described as,

In Marvel Television’s 'Daredevil: Born Again', Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.

Daredevil: Born Again went through several creative changes during the industry strikes, but before that, the editors were asked to strictly not lean into the Netflix Daredevil series. While that aspect changed after the strikes, Stephanie Filo told Awards Radar,

"the original take on it was to lean away from the Netflix Daredevil show. They actually told us not to watch the Netflix show, because they didn’t want to affect how we were editing it.''

Next, she pointed out that changes were ultimately made, and for the final version, the editors could take inspiration from Daredevil. As she told Awards Radar,

''Once we restructured everything and figured out we would do a different take on it, we dove back into the Netflix side of things. We were able to use temp music from that Netflix series, and get back to that darker vibe.”

However, that does not mean that the show lost its own unique touch. As editor Cedric Nairn-Smith pointed out in his conversation with Awards Radar,

“Sometimes, we would iterate these episodes, and would be asked at times to intercut these scenes. We thought intercuts would not work because they weren’t intended to be intercut. However, once we started intercutting, we found out that there were common threads here. It felt like it was a happy accident that these inner cuts worked, and that you would find these connections. A lot of it was trial and error trying to find those threads, but some of it was also planned.”

This reflects that minute details like this are what made Daredevil: Born Again a success and made it stand out as a show. Melissa Lawson Cheung pointed out one such intercutting that proved to be good for the show. She said to Awards Radar,

“we’re seeing Matt with bloody knuckles, and we know that Fisk will also have them. We tied those two together because they were still shooting and were able to grab a close-up of that. We could then tie these shots together, which had a bigger impact. That happened in other places as well. Instead of having transitions that would flow nicely into some establishing shots, you would have Fisk and Matt cut together so that you would have them and their story be part of the transition instead, which was emotionally more impactful.”

This interview between the editors and Awards Radar highlights one of the many editing details that went into making the show what it is today. While they were initially asked to stay away from Daredevil, the editors were eventually allowed to lean on the original series, which helped in enhancing the Disney+ show.

Daredevil and Daredevil: Born Again are both streaming on Disney+.

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