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Basically Disney is keeping a lot of the same creatives behind the original Daredevil, but intend to use season 1 pay rates because they tacked, 'Born Again' on to the title.
Pretty gross penny pinching from one of the wealthiest media corporations in the world.
Yeah, look at any of the Disney channel series, they all change the name slightly to reset the season and avoid union required pay increases. One example: The Suite Life… which was split into 2-3 season series.
Hollywood accounting strikes again!
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.