Matt Murdock – aka Daredevil! – is back for Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again on March 24, but he’s sporting a new look this time around… a costume the show’s producers are calling the “blackout” suit. It’s a unique look for the Man Without Fear, featuring an all-black version of his familiar armored costume… but, perhaps most importantly to fans (and to series star Charlie Cox), it also finally features the MCU version of the hero with the iconic “DD” logo on his chest.
“Obviously, I’ve hinted over the years that I’d love to graduate to the DDs on the chest plate,” Cox recently told me. “My costume is interesting because there’s what is so cool and such a delight and an honor to wear, and then there’s what feels good. So I’m pulled in two different directions. There was a day on set in Season 2 … where I was putting on the costume, and it was late at night. I’d had too much dinner. I was squeezing this thing on and feeling dreadful and probably pretty grumpy about it. And then I walked outside and there were a ton of fans, and I could literally hear the gasp of seeing the black suit with the DDs. And suddenly I was reminded, ‘Oh, this is pretty cool!’”
How the Daredevil Blackout Suit Happened
Executive producer Sana Amanat explained that the blackout suit came about when the production team realized that they could simply spraypaint the old red suit and make it black, but stencil the DDs so that they remained in red.
“And that’s how we’re going to get the DDs out of it,” she says. “And we’re really excited about the way it came together.”
There’s also an in-story reason for the change in attire, of course. Season 1 of Born Again ended with Matt and Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) on the run after Mayor Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) bans vigilantes. Daredevil is now among the hunted.
He’s leaving the DDs because he wants Fisk to know who it is.“
“Their life is in danger,” says Cox of where the characters are at the start of Season 2. “They are literally squatting above a restaurant. They only go out at night. That’s how dangerous the city of New York has become for vigilantes, and for Matt Murdock in particular. So he’s painted his red suit black. That’s the reason for it. But over the course of the season … as more action takes place, the black starts to strip away and the red comes through underneath. It’s such a great idea.”
The First Daredevil Suit Unique to the MCU
According to showrunner and executive producer Dario Scardapane, while we don’t get to see the transformation of the old red suit into the new blackout suit, he can picture how it all happened – and how it ties into Matt’s unique relationship with Vincent D’Onofrio’s Mayor Wilson Fisk/Kingpin.
“There’s almost like a scene that never ended up on screen of Murdock spraypainting the suit black because he needs to be in the shadows before the things that happened in the first episode,” he says. “But leaving the DDs because he wants Fisk to know who it is. And once we had that picture in our mind, then [it goes to the visual development team]. I think [Sana Amanat] said, ‘The spraypaint starts wearing off after each battle.’”
So eventually the suit will be a unique mix of battle-worn black and red. D’Onofrio, who gets his own choice wardrobe in the show as Fisk, is also excited by the DDs and the new look: “It also does this thing where it creates a suit that’s never been seen before.”
As Cox says, “Every other suit [we’ve done] has existed in the comics, except this is the first one that’s unique to our show.”
Bullseye Gets a Comics-Accurate Costume
Wilson Bethel is also back in the new season as “Dex” Poindexter, aka Bullseye. His loyalties have shifted over the years, and so have his costume choices. He even dressed up as a copycat Daredevil at one point! But now he’s got a new suit in Season 2, and it’s a pretty comics-accurate one at that.
“Bullseye continues to evolve both as a character and in terms of how he’s represented in his costuming,” Scardapane says. “For Bullseye to kind of go from legitimate FBI agent to assassin to criminal to other stuff, that was important. I don’t want to give too much away, but he feels [like he’s] on a mission of good this season. So he thinks. … Bullseye’s costuming, there’s a lot of thought given to that.”
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Amanat adds that the actors are always involved in the costuming and design process that goes into creating their characters. “They’ve been living those characters longer than we have,” she says.
In fact, Wilson Bethel even has ideas of what he wants to look like in Season 3, which just started production.
“[He] texted us a picture of like, ‘This is my wishlist,’” laughs Scardapane.
Adds Amanat with a laugh, “Yeah, ‘These are the things that I want.’ We said yes to some of them!”
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 arrives on Disney+ on March 24.
