Vincent D’Onofrio may not be currently filming Daredevil: Born Again right now but he’s certainly getting into fighting shape for it. The actor, who has played Daredevil’s arch-nemesis since the original Netflix series debuted in 2015, recently confirmed on social media that while shooting has yet to begin, the series is definitely in “glorious prep” mode.
Film fan and stand-up Stephen Schiatta posted a celebratory Tweet in honor of February 8, the date he believed shooting on Daredevil: Born Again would begin. D’Onofrio responded with a corrective Tweet, telling Schiatta that “We arr [sic] in deep glorious prep. Yet quite not shooting yet.”
D’Onofrio officially joined the MCU in 2021, when he was revealed as a villain in that year’s Hawkeye series on Disney Plus. Charlie Cox soon followed him into official status with a cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home as Daredevil’s secret identity, Matt Murdock, and then a full-on in-costume recurring role on She-Hulk. In May of 2022, Disney and marvel confirmed that the not-strictly canon Netflix Daredevil would be relaunched into MCU continuity with Daredevil: Born Again, slated to begin airing in 2024. Cox and D’Onofrio will also appear together in the upcoming Echo miniseries, due to come out the same year.
In the meantime, D’Onofrio has been busy with a side project that is 180 degrees divorced from his violent alter ego, the publication of his first children’s book, entitled Pigs Can’t Look Up. The storybook is based on a viral tweet by D’Onofrio, and tells the tale of a little girl who bonds with a pig on her farm, and discovers that (because their bodies are built to forage for food on the ground) pigs can’t look up.