Matthew Lillard Joins "Daredevil: Born Again" Season 2

Matthew Lillard has recently joined the cast of "Daredevil: Born Again" Season 2, which heads into production next week.

Character details are being kept under lock and key. 

The news comes ahead of the Marvel Television series’ Season 1 premiere, with its first two episodes set to debut on Disney+ on March 4.

A continuation of the hit Daredevil series that aired on Netflix from 2015 to 2018, Born Again picks up with our hero Matt Murdock (Charlie 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 (Vincent D’Onofrio) pursues his political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.

"Daredevil: Born Again" went through a creative overhaul in the fall of 2023, following a production pause due to the writers strike, and it worked as reviews for the new show are glowing.

Besides Cox and D’Onofrio, returning cast members include Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson as Murdock’s friends, Karen Page and Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, and Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle aka Punisher. 

Others aboard for Season 1 include Margarita Levieva, Ayelet Zurer, Zabryna Guevara, Nikki M. James, Genneya Walton, Arty Froushan, Clark Johnson, Michael Gandolfini, Wilson Bethel, and Tony Dalton.

Dario Scardapane (The Punisher) served as showrunner and will be back in that capacity for Season 2. 

The EPs are Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Sana Amanat, Dario Scardapane, Justin Benson, and Aaron Moorhead.

Lillard has been on a tear of late, landing roles in one high-profile franchise after another. 

He is set to return to the Scream franchise with "Scream 7", and will also be seen in the second season of Amazon’s hit series "Cross" and reprise in Universal Pictures and Blumhouse’s sequel to the hit horror video game adaptation "Five Nights at Freddy’s".

Next up, Lillard will be seen in "The Life of Chuck", the latest Stephen King adaptation from Mike Flanagan, which won the coveted People’s Choice Award at TIFF 2024 and is slated for release by Neon on June 6.