by In order to help put Marvel Studios’ fan-favorite lawyer back into the limelight, the Disney+ programme is increasing its lawyer quota as the MCU prepares for production on Daredevil: Born Again.
After two well-received appearances in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home and 2022’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Charlie Cox and his MCU colleagues are actively preparing for the production of his future solo series. While it’s yet unknown how Matt Murdock’s past from his Netflix series will be included in his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, one thing is certain: Matt’s legal profession will be heavily portrayed.
In this new series, Cox has already stated that he anticipates “a heavy influence of courtroom stuff.” especially because there will be 18 episodes devoted to Matt Murdock’s day job and heroic life.
And it looks like Marvel made an exciting step toward ensuring that this aspect of Daredevil’s tale gets presented properly with that strong legal impact on the way.
Daredevil Selects Outstanding Attorneys for Disney+
According to The Cosmic Circus, David Feige, Thomas Wong, and Zachary Reiter were engaged by Marvel Studios to serve as the film’s writers for Daredevil: Born Again. All three of them have extensive legal backgrounds in addition to literary jobs.
David Feige has written for several law-related TV shows, including a one-season version of Tom Cruise’s legal thriller The Firm. He was a public defender in New York City. He was also an executive producer and writer for the TNT legal drama series For Life, which was about a prisoner who decides to become a lawyer in order to appeal his own life sentence. He also co-created the TNT legal drama series Raising the Bar.
Over the course of his own career as an attorney, working in New York and even selling opulent real estate in Manhattan, Thomas Wong has dealt with racial concerns, food and wine, sexuality and gender, and the legal system and courtroom processes. Along with writing for Minority Report and Good Trouble, he also contributed to the CBS legal drama Bull, which starred Michael Weatherly, a longtime NCIS regular.
Zachary Reiter has familiarity in homicide investigations from his service as an assistant district attorney in Queens, where he served as a prosecutor. He has worked on several high-profile procedurals in Hollywood, including CSI: New York and Law & Order: Organized Crime. He also collaborated with David Feige and his brother Lukas Reiter on the film The Firm.
This carries on a pattern that was established in the television series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, which employed former attorney and She-Hulk comic writer Charles Soule as a legal adviser.
When Soule discussed his experience working with the authors and producers of She-Hulk with Marvel in October 2022, he provided examples of how judges and attorneys “would actually act and behave” in certain circumstances.
“I was able to read the scripts and talk to the writers in the writers’ room and the producers and say, well, you know, in this situation, this is how lawyers and judges and the courtroom and all those things would actually act and behave.”
The author reflected on his time as a Daredevil comic book writer as he had the opportunity to delve into his own legal history, as well as how everyone in his position “uses their life as research” and puts himself “into the stories they’re telling” out of necessity:
“Every writer uses their life as research for the stories they write. They put themselves into the stories they’re telling because you kind of have to, right? In addition to writing She-Hulk, I also had a really long run on Daredevil, which is the other big Marvel Universe lawyer. So for me, having a legal background has allowed me to explore some of the Marvel characters on a lens that people who aren’t lawyers maybe wouldn’t write it the same way.”
The Need for Lawyer Writers in Daredevil for Marvel
As Charlie Cox finally receives a whole series to explore one of the most well-known Marvel characters in recent memory, Daredevil: Born Again has already generated a great deal of anticipation ahead of its premiere. Marvel wants to make sure that the legal world in the MCU is as accurately depicted as it can be, so this development should only increase anticipation for the show’s 2024 premiere.
The Daredevil tale should be told as truthfully and compellingly as possible with writers who have this much knowledge in real-world law, ensuring that Matt Murdock’s time in court and his legal office is depicted in an engaging way. Although the majority of the excitement will come from his time in his red mask and suit, there is a lot of material to cover in 18 episodes for an MCU Disney+ show, so his day job will need to be as exciting as his heroic exploits in order to advance the plot.
Given that production on the Disney+ series Born Again is scheduled to begin in February and run for the majority of the rest of the year, these writers are probably already working diligently on it.
In the spring of 2024, Daredevil: Born Again will then air on Disney+.
