With Daredevil: Born Again streaming on Disney+, fans are finally getting a chance to witness one of their most loved heroes back in action. The talks of Charlie Cox returning to play Daredevil had been making the rounds for years now.
Sadly, fans had to wait for a startling period of 7 years since its last season aired for the news to come true. And while the core of the series is in place, there is one major change – Netflix is out of the picture now. And Netflix co-CEO, Ted Sarandos, has a lot to say about how everything went down.
Ted Sarandos knows that Netflix has to keep pushing
The Oscars 2025 threw up some surprises indeed. One of the most mystifying ones was that the movie with the most nominations this time managed to bag nothing. Emilia Perez‘s lean run at the Oscars shocked fans around the world. But Netflix’s co-CEO couldn’t worry less about it.
When Ted Sarandos is asked for his views on the reason behind the Selena Gomez starrer’s dry spell at the Oscars, he offers a completely no-nonsense answer. He said (via Variety),
There’s something about [the Academy] — you nominate the movies that you respect and admire, and you vote for best picture for the movie that you love. We have to make a movie that people love. It was the frontrunner, but it was never a slam dunk that ‘Emilia Pérez’ — with all its innovation and thrills — would win best picture.
He hates questions that insinuate that the movie’s fate might have been different had it not been for Karla Sofía Gascón’s tweets. The ‘what ifs…’ are best left in the past. And Sarandos is a man who is focused on the future.
For a man who has set all his eyes on the future, there is one thing that matters more than anything – making quality content. And that is where he had a key disagreement with Marvel.
Ted Sarandos weighs in on what went wrong with Marvel’s shows
Charlie Cox’s Daredevil was widely loved by fans around the board. But he was just one of the many heroes on whose story the streaming giant was working at the time. Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, The Defenders, and The Punisher rounded off the list of series that were on Netflix’s roster.
Sadly, the universe failed to have the impact fans would have expected it to have. Netflix understood that better than many. No wonder they all bit the dust, with Daredevil being the last of these shows to be canceled.
With Matt Murdock returning to Hell’s Kitchen, there couldn’t be a better occasion to reflect on what went wrong at the time. And Ted Sarandos has shared his two bits on everything that went down.
He said,
On our shows, we were dealing with the old Marvel television regime, which operated independently at Disney. And they were thrifty. And every time we wanted to make the shows bigger or better, we had to bang on them.
That is where their thought processes diverge. And Sarandos had various run-ins with Marvel’s team back then. He continued,
My incentive is to make it as great as possible. That’s a lesson that I take forever. As producers, whatever [Marvel] didn’t spend, they kept. So every time we wanted to add something to the show to make it better, it was a fistfight.
In the end, the split turned out to be better for both parties. Netflix is still going strong, ruling the charts when it comes to streaming. And Marvel is finally back with its most loved lawyer. Hopefully, the studio won’t hold back from spending the big bucks now.
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