Surprise in Hollywood. The scriptwriters can theoretically return to their jobs or start writing for those studios that had commissioned episodes from them. However, Chris Ord and Matt Corman, who were writing for Marvel Studios on the Daredevil reboot, titled Daredevil: Born Again, have received a notification: they do not need to write a single more line from the first season that was in production. After filming almost half of the 18-episode season, they have been fired.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the reason was simple: the filmed footage was not liked by management offices and, after the lukewarm reviews of Marvel’s television productions and the irregular results of the films both among the public and at the box office, it did not. They want to launch a product that does not convince them. This is not a time to erode the brand.
Now they are in full search for a showrunner to lead the reboot headed by Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio, who already starred in the Netflix version of Daredevil. “Every fantastic project I’ve been involved in has constantly evolved during pre-production, production and post-production. It’s a constant in the business. I wouldn’t want anything else,” D’Onofrio defended on social networks, highlighting that “they are just a group of creatives trying to do their best to obtain a good result.” The idea is to start from scratch and, if a sequence can be reused, use it later.
But it is not just a change of scriptwriters. At Marvel Studios they are considering changing their way of making television. Until now, the series in the cinematic universe have not had a screenwriter with creative control of the work for which he wrote (that is, a showrunner) but rather followed a production model more in line with cinema.
Thus, according to THR, instead of ordering pilot episodes to prove that there was a worthwhile project with a good presentation and potential to develop its plots and characters, they directly ordered complete seasons with budgets around 150 million. Nor did it imitate the usual television model: those who creatively supervised the project were the film directors. They also trusted that if something didn’t work in the scripts, it could be fixed in post-production or by re-recording some scenes.
In short, after producing WandaVision, Loki, Hawkeye, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, She-Hulk: Lawyer Hulka, Moon Knight, Ms Marvel, Secret Invasion and having Echo, Ironheart, the Agatha spin-off on the way Harkness and this Daredevil: Born Again, the directors have discovered that the secret to improving quality: producing television series as television series are produced, without believing that they understand the sector better for having made some of the highest-grossing films of the history. Seeing is believing.
