TV SERIES · 2015–2018 · USA
Marvel's Daredevil
- Created by
- Drew Goddard
- Network
- Netflix
- Seasons
- 3
- Episodes
- 39
- Studio
- ABC Studios, DeKnight Industries, Goddard Textiles
25 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
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10 Facts From the Making of Marvel's Daredevil
- #001
Drew Goddard pitched a new Daredevil film to Marvel, but the studio was not looking to make an R-rated film, and Goddard did not want a watered-down version of the character.
- #002
According to Drew Goddard in 2015, he discussed making Daredevil as a film with Marvel, but both sides realized the movie should not cost $200 million, since Matt Murdock does not save the world and Marvel's film side does not make $25 million movies.
- #003
Marvel Studios decided that Daredevil would be better served as a television series, and although Kevin Feige had plans to use the character in films, Marvel Entertainment superiors ordered Marvel Studios to focus its films on the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy so that regained characters could help build a planned television empire under their direct control.
- #004
Disney later announced that Marvel Television and ABC Studios would give Netflix live action series centered on Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage, building toward a miniseries based on the Defenders. This approach followed the success of The Avengers (2012), in which Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America and Thor were each introduced separately before teaming up.
- #005
Marvel announced in May 2014 that Drew Goddard had stepped down as showrunner of Daredevil to direct a feature film based on Marvel's Sinister Six for Sony Pictures Entertainment, though he stayed as a consultant after writing the first two episodes. Steven S. DeKnight took over as showrunner, with his company DeKnight Productions producing the first season.
- #006
Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez, writers on the first season of Marvel's Daredevil, took over as showrunners for the second season after working closely with DeKnight and Goddard.
- #007
For the second season of Marvel's Daredevil, Mark Verheiden, Alison Engel, Ramirez and Petrie became executive producers, while Friedlander left the series.
- #008
Elements of the Marvel's Daredevil storyline were adapted from Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.'s 1993–1994 miniseries Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, which retold the character's origin story.
- #010
Drew Goddard said he did not want to simply take the comics and shoot them onscreen, arguing that the creative team's job was to treat the material as their own run and move the story forward rather than retell someone else's.
- #011
In August 2014, Ted Sarandos said Marvel's Daredevil would not be afraid to go darker than the 2003 film, describing its heroes as more down to Earth and its stories as gritty crime stories set more in the streets than in the clouds.
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