Preview:
- Krysten Ritter will appear in ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2.
- She’s bringing Jessica Jones back to screens.
- Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio star in the show.
Looks like the Defenders are getting back together. Well, some of them at least.
As part of its presentation at the big Disney Upfront this week (where the company touted its upcoming and returning shows in the hopes of luring advertising dollars), Marvel brought Krysten Ritter on stage to announce that she will appear as Jessica Jones in the second season of Disney+ series ‘Daredevil: Born Again.’
UPLl9v8DcuODJ0OGYMYxF3This is what Ritter said about returning to the role:
“It’s so great to be back, returning to Jessica after three seasons and ‘The Defenders’ and now joining the MCU. I’m so excited to bring back this iconic character, and without giving too much away, there is much more in store for Jessica Jones. This is going to be an incredible season!”
Ritter’s gritty, funny portrayal of the character was widely acclaimed, and she was a definite standout among the Netflix/Marvel heroes.
There had been talk that other Netflix characters might be making the leap, following Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock/Daredevil and his arch nemesis The Kingpin, AKA Wilson Fisk, as played by Vincent D’Onofrio.
Hopes remain high that Mike Colter, who played Luke Cage, a hulking hero with great strength and impenetrable skin, might also show up. And that’s it for the Defenders line up. There definitely was not anybody else we’d want to see.
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Who is Jessica Jones?
One of the key characters during the Netflix/Marvel TV run, with her standalone series launching in 2015 and lasting for three seasons. She also appeared in the ‘Defenders’ team-up miniseries in 2017.
Jessica was created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Gaydos and first appeared in ‘Alias #1’ (November 2001) as part of Marvel’s Max, an imprint for more mature content.
She gains super strength and the ability to fly (to some degree, it’s more like giant leaps) and relative invulnerability but the accident also kills her family (or so she thinks).
In the show, much as in the comic, she’s an extremely troubled young woman, an alcoholic who funds her life through working as a private investigator.
In Season 1, she must deal with Kilgrave (David Tennant), a cunning and sadistic mind manipulator who forced her to kill someone while under his power and effectively ended her brief heroic career.
What’s the story of ‘Daredevil: Born Again’?
A continuation of the ‘Daredevil’ series that aired on Netflix from 2015 to 2018, ‘Born Again’ picks up with our hero Matt Murdock (Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, amid a continued fight for justice through his bustling law firm.
At the same time, former mob boss Wilson Fisk (D’Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.
Season 2 will pick up after the cliffhanger of the first, in which crime lord Fisk violently consolidated power, leading Matt to go underground and begin reaching out to allies to resist Fisk and his anti-vigilante task force. Jones will be part of that group of allies.
‘Daredevil: Born Again’ –The Executive Speaks
Marvel’s head of television and animation Brad Winderbaum enthused to the Hollywood Reporter about the success of the show:
“People were watching it as a season four, not at as a first season. It’s given us the confidence of making the show annually into the future.”
Just don’t got expecting this to open any floodgate for other characters, according to the executive:
“It’s about not rushing and telling the best story. Yes, it’s exciting to think about characters interacting, but it’s about the reasons why. At times we’ve done that very well, at times we’ve rushed. The story has to lead the path.”
What else did Marvel talk up?
In addition to the Jessica Jones/Daredevil announcement, the company brought footage of ‘Ironheart,’ the series following driven young inventive genius Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) who we met on screen in ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.’
The show follows Riri’s further adventures as she works on her technological creations (including her version of the Iron Man suit) and encounters some dangerous villains.
‘Ironheart’ launches on Disney+ on June 24th, and you can see the trailer below.
KiK7epoiThen there is ‘Wonder Man,’ about a superpowered actor and stunt man (played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) who auditions to be in a superhero movie.
This meta-sounding series also features Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery, last seen in ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.’
‘Wonder Man’ is scheduled to arrive on Disney+ in December.
When will ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ return to our screens?
While Marvel hasn’t fully confirmed the release date, we do know via showrunner Dario Scardapane that the new season will be on Disney+ in March 2026.
Movies and TV Shows Featuring Characters in ‘Daredevil: Born Again:’
- ‘The Punisher‘ (1989)
- ‘Daredevil‘ (2003)
- ‘The Punisher‘ (2004)
- ‘Punisher: War Zone‘ (2008)
- ‘The Punisher: Dirty Laundry‘ (2012)
- ‘Marvel’s Daredevil‘ (2015 – 2018)
- ‘Marvel’s The Punisher‘ (2017 – 2019)
- ‘Marvel’s The Defenders‘ (2017)
- ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home‘ (2021)
- ‘Hawkeye‘ (2021)
- ‘She-Hulk: Attorney at Law‘ (2022)
- ‘Echo‘ (2024)
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Excitement for Jessica Jones” has reached a fever pitch, with the series finally, officially making its streaming debut today. 
Netflix just released a bunch of new images from its upcoming Marvel series “Jessica Jones,” giving fans their first look at the titular character and other key members of the series’s supporting cast.
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