Ask any Daredevil fan - or Marvel fan, for that matter - what the character's best story is, and they're likely to cite Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's Born Again. Once you consider just how revered most Daredevil stories are, the enormity of that statement soon becomes apparent.
The seeds for a Born Again-style story have been planted for some time now, with Wilson Fisk vowing his revenge against Matt midway through Season 2 of Daredevil and Sister Maggie making a cameo at the Clinton Mission in the finale of The Defenders, but fans can't expect a beat-for-beat recreation.
To suit the needs of the show, it looks as though Wilson Bethel's Bullseye will be taking up the role Nuke did in that comic, and with other possible influences to add too - including the formidable Murdock Papers, among others - it's clear that this new season will bring plenty new to the table.
Born Again is still its biggest draw though, and judging from what we've seen so far, it looks as though Season 3 will be leaning heavily into one of the story's biggest themes...
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 written 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 Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
