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Marvel TV boss Brad Winderbaum recently revealed that Spider-Man: No Way Home is the reason Daredevil: Born Again, featuring Charlie Cox, happened. The Marvel series recently returned with its Season 2 on March 24, 2026. Apart from Cox, it features Vincent D’Onofrio, Wilson Bethel, Deborah Ann Woll, and Krysten Ritter.
Brad Winderbaum reveals how Daredevil: Born Again got greenlit
The Marvel executive recently sat down on the official Daredevil: Born Again podcast, where he shared that Spider-Man: No Way Home paved the way for the Charlie Cox series to happen.
In the recent Season 1 Lookback episode, showrunner Dario Scardapane asked Brad Winderbaum what led him to bring Daredevil back to the MCU through the series. He asserted, “The second I heard that Charlie was going to be in Spider-Man, I was like, we’ve got to make the show. It opened the door.”
The Marvel Head of TV and Streaming added, “Once the door was ajar, I, like, got a crowbar in there and started to kind of inch it open.” He also stated that Marvel head Kevin Feige was a fan of the idea of a Daredevil show.
Winderbaum further shared, “I think the first incarnation of the show was trying to be a little too agnostic to the mythology of what came before. But, actually, there isn’t. What’s cool about the show is that it’s agnostic to the grander MCU. It exists in the world of Avengers. The blip happened, the gems, all the crazy space battles, all that stuff’s out there. But it is its own universe. And that’s the way it always felt in the comics as well.”
Moreover, while No Way Home was the reason Born Again Season 1 happened, Brad Winderbaum has also said that Season 2 connects to the upcoming movie, Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
In October 2025, Winderbaum also told Entertainment Weekly, “We are communicating a lot with the team on Spider-Man: Brand New Day to make sure that there’s coherence there. We don’t want to spoil anything, but it very much exists in the same world, and it is important.”
