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Netflix’s ‘Daredevil’ Showrunner Steven DeKnight Calls MCU’s ‘Born Again’ Reboot “An Old Disney Scam”

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Steven DeKnight, showrunner on Netflix’s Marvel Daredevil series, calls the upcoming Disney+ series “an old Disney scam” that will keep the Netflix series creatives from getting w…

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It is a complete reboot though isn’t it? The original show on Netflix isn’t part of the canon of this one? If so then I don’t really get their complaint.
- Even if they wipe the continuity, which is still very unclear, is it really fair to call it a "complete reboot" when they're using the same cast for the most prominent roles?
- A tonne of the same cast are returning. Bernthal is still the Punisher, D'Onofrio is still Kingpin... no, this is a calculated decision to pay the workers less.
  
  Same actors != not a reboot. Iirc they’re going to have gal gadot as Wonder Woman again but are rebooting her character so the 2 previous movies are not canon, didn’t happen.
  If they’re making a new series that has literally nothing to do with the previous one, zero connection to anything that happened in it, how is it not a reboot? Should they use different actors just to justify it being a reboot?
  
  I am fully in agreement with you, although I can see why you and others didn't take that from my initial comment. The calculated decision I referred to was Disney's cynical claim that this is a reboot. They're shafting workers, we can all see it.

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