Charlie Cox Got a Call From Marvel Boss Kevin Feige ‘Midway Through 2020’ About Daredevil Return — Then He Heard Nothing For Two Years: ‘It’s Definitely Over’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Charlie Cox revealed to People magazine that he was first contacted by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige about a potential return as Daredevil in the Marvel Cinematic Universe all the way back in 2020.

It would take another two years before the studio announced “Daredevil: Born Again,” although by then Cox had already popped up as the character in a cameo in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” The actor became convinced during those two years that he’d just never get his own “Daredevil” series again. “We stopped shooting the original show at the end of 2016, beginning of 2018 and found out it was canceled somewhere in that period,” Cox said about his original stint playing Daredevil on the Netflix series of the same name, which ran for three seasons between 2015 and 2018. “And then it wasn’t until midway through 2020 that we got a phone call from Kevin saying that they were interested in bringing the characters back.” Marvel Studios then went completely radio silent on Cox, so he “completely let go” of any possibility of starring in a “Daredevil” reboot series.

He continued to stay in touch with Vincent D’Onofrio, who played Kingpin and always held on to the belief that their time would come for a return. “I’d moved on and occasionally Vincent and I would chat and he would say things like, ‘Oh, they’re going to call.

I think they’re going to us, but they’re going to call us,'” Cox said. “And I would get off the phone and be like, ‘The guy’s delusional!