Daredevil Season 3: 10 Ways To Make The Perfect Born Again Adaptation

Things are about to get very ugly for poor Matt Murdock...

by Ewan Paterson
Daredevil Born Again
Marvel Comics/Netflix

With The Defenders and The Punisher now out of the way, attentions have already been drawn towards the next big thing: Daredevil's third season.

Although a second season of Jessica Jones will arrive before Matt Murdock's third successive solo series, threads established in season two of Daredevil alluded to some pretty hefty themes from the comics themselves, with Wilson Fisk seemingly gearing up for his own, Born Again-style revenge plot against the offices of Nelson and Murdock. Add to that a fractured friendship in Foggy and Matt, as well as the death/resurrection of Elektra in The Defenders, and things aren't looking all that rosy for ol' horn-head.

Despite being a character of critical beauty, the fact remains that Daredevil has suffered from some truly depressing (albeit critically revered) material in the past, exemplified in full by Frank Miller's Marvel-opus, Born Again. It's a storyline defined as much by its gorgeous art as it is its brutality, and with Joanne Whalley joining Season 3 as Matt’s mother, Sister Maggie, it looks increasingly likely that it’ll inspire at least some of the thematic beats in the character's latest live action adaptation.

Born Again makes for some grim reading, but it's also a brilliant comic. Done right, it could make for a truly gripping - and authentic - season of television.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and the Golden Age of Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled.