Marvel Television series Daredevil: Born Again will end on Disney+ after its upcoming third season, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter on Monday.
The decision to end the show comes two months after filming finished on the third season episodes. The production has also quietly parted ways with showrunner Dario Scardapane, whose contract ended and was not renewed during the final stage of post-production.
The third season is currently in post-production and is scheduled to air next year on the streaming service, marking the conclusion of the series.
The upcoming conclusion marks the end of the current television run for blind lawyer Matt Murdock, portrayed by British actor Charlie Cox. Cox has played the Marvel superhero across multiple television projects since 2015, when the character first debuted on Netflix.
In addition to his episodic television work, Cox brought the blind defense attorney to the big screen with a cameo appearance in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home.
The decision to end Daredevil: Born Again arrives despite impressive audience numbers for the production on Disney+. The second season premiered in March 2026 and quickly became one of the most popular releases on the streaming platform during the first half of the year.
Industry viewing figures show that season two accumulated more than 2.3 billion minutes viewed in the United States over that period. That viewing total established the show as the most watched Disney+ original series by minutes reproduced in the American market during the first six months of the year.
Production history and creative overhaul
The project to revive Matt Murdock for Disney's streaming service officially began in July 2022. Marvel Studios initially ordered 18 episodes from screenwriters Matt Corman and Chris Ord to lead the revival.
However, work ground to a halt during the industry-wide Hollywood writers and actors strikes in 2023. The prolonged shutdown gave Marvel executives an opportunity to review the filmed material and re-evaluate the creative direction of the series from scratch.
Corman and Ord had crafted a lighter courtroom procedural format that moved away from the intense physical violence of the original Netflix series. Marvel executives chose to discard that concept, resulting in the exit of both Corman and Ord from the production.
Marvel subsequently recruited Dario Scardapane to take over as showrunner, while directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead were brought in to direct episodes and serve as executive producers. Scardapane previously worked on Marvel projects, while Benson and Moorhead had directed episodes for other streaming series.
Under Scardapane's leadership, the original 18-episode order was reconfigured into two separate broadcast blocks totaling 17 episodes. The revised plan assigned nine episodes to the first season and eight episodes to the second season.
Defenders universe cast and final season details
The final season will retain its primary leads, starring Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock alongside Vincent D'Onofrio as crime boss Wilson Fisk, also known as Kingpin. In Marvel lore, Murdock fights crime as a masked vigilante in New York's Hell's Kitchen while Fisk leads organized crime across the city.
The third season will also consolidate a broader reunion of characters from the interconnected Defenders television universe. Elodie Yung has been confirmed to return as the assassin Elektra.
The final episodes will also feature anticipated appearances by Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones, Mike Colter as Luke Cage, and Finn Jones as Iron Fist. The group originally headlined crossover events during Marvel's initial streaming era.
Regular cast member Deborah Ann Woll will return as Murdock's law office partner Karen Page. The secondary ensemble for the final season includes Arty Froushan, Zabryna Guevara, Margarita Levieva, Jeremy Isaiah Earl, and Jack Mulhern.
Story details for the final season remain closely guarded, but Vincent D'Onofrio teased that the new episodes will explore new nuances of Wilson Fisk's childhood background.
Visual previews from the upcoming season have also shown Daredevil wearing a new black and red suit. The altered costume design serves as a direct reference to one of the character's most discussed storylines in Marvel comic book history.
