Development In February 2025,
Marvel Studios executive
Brad Winderbaum said
Daredevil: Born Again could continue beyond the
second season, with the strong audience response to the
first season giving the studio confidence to make the series "annually into the future". In July, star
Vincent D'Onofrio said the studio had plans for a third season but an official renewal was dependent on audience responses to the second season. D'Onofrio reiterated a month later that both he and fellow co-star
Charlie Cox believed a third season was likely, while
Variety reported that chances of a third season renewal were "promising". Winderbaum confirmed the third season renewal in September 2025, and
showrunner Dario Scardapane confirmed a month later that he was returning for the season. Filmmaking duo
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead and
Iain B. MacDonald also return to direct episodes of the season. The series is released under Marvel Studios' "
Marvel Television" label.
Writing The
writers' room for the season began work by October 11, 2025.
Heather Bellson, Jesse Wigutow, Chantelle Wells, and Omar Najam returned as writers from previous seasons, joined by newcomer Ryan Farley. The
season finale was being written in mid-April 2026. Wigutow said the season, while a continuation from the previous two, would go in a new direction. Executive producer
Sana Amanat said the writers were hoping to create a season that was "more stripped-down, back-to-basics" for
Matt Murdock / Daredevil, coming up with ideas that had not been done before. Scardapane said the series would return to the tone and street-level storytelling of
Frank Miller's
Daredevil comics following the conclusion of
Wilson Fisk / Kingpin's mayor storyline in season two. He said that storyline was fun to explore but became too topical and moved the series away from "the large, mythological genre stuff" from the comics. Scardapane believed whatever came after the Mayor Fisk storyline still needed to feel like a continuation of that, with everything "moving in the same direction and is all part of a piece", even if the dynamic between Murdock and Fisk was no longer the focal point of the series. At the end of the second season, Murdock publicly outs himself as Daredevil and is subsequently arrested. Scardapane said there would not be any "buybacks" of the public knowing that Murdock is Daredevil, which allowed the third season to explore new storytelling opportunities. Similar comic book storylines where Murdock is in prison include "The Devil in Cell Block D" from
Daredevil vol. 2 #82–87 (2006), and "Doing Time" and "Lockdown" from
Daredevil vol. 6 #26–30 and #31–36 (both 2021), respectively. The third season also continues the redemption storyline for
Cole North that began in the second season, and further explores
Luke Cage's story, which involves
Jessica Jones and their daughter
Danielle. Scardapane said that there would be new villains in the season, in addition to Fisk and
Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter / Bullseye. Among them is
Heather Glenn, who takes on the mantle of the serial killer
Muse in the season.
Casting Main cast members returning from the previous seasons include Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil, Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk / Kingpin,
Deborah Ann Woll as
Karen Page,
Margarita Levieva as Heather Glenn / Muse,
Wilson Bethel as Dex Poindexter / Bullseye,
Arty Froushan as
Buck Cashman,
Zabryna Guevara as
Sheila Rivera, and
Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones. In April 2026, set photos revealed that
Mike Colter and
Finn Jones were reprising their respective roles as Luke Cage and
Danny Rand / Iron Fist from
Marvel's Netflix television series, with Colter returning after appearing in the second season finale.
Design Michael Shaw returns as production designer from previous seasons. Based on set photos confirming Colter's appearance in the season, Casey Loving from
TheWrap noted that he was wearing a similar three-piece yellow suit that the character was seen in at the end of the
second season of
Luke Cage (2018) and his final Marvel's Netflix series appearance in the
third season of
Jessica Jones (2019). Glenn's Muse costume features the character's signature mask under a black wig and a gray beanie, reminiscent of the
Morgan Whittier incarnation of Muse.
Filming Principal photography began by March 17, 2026, with Benson and Moorhead and MacDonald as directors, under the
working title Out the Kitchen. Soundstage work occurs at
Silvercup Studios in Queens.
Jeffrey Waldron returns as cinematographer from the second season. Woll, Guevara, Ritter, Colter, and Jones filmed scenes in Brooklyn in early April 2026. Set dressing showed posters indicating that Rivera was campaigning to become mayor of New York City. The same month, Levieva filmed scenes in Queens, dressed as Muse. Filming was halfway complete on May 5, 2026, and is expected to
wrap that July. == Release ==