Dario Scardapane, the writer of The Punisher, believes the Disney+ take on Daredevil is “much darker” than Netflix’s version.
In an interview with SFX magazine, the Daredevil: Born Again’s showrunner said, “I really feel that Netflix’s Daredevil, which I know in my blood, was much more noir, and this show is more New York crime story.”
But the Disney+ series “has a pace and a scope that, for a lot of reasons, Netflix wasn’t able to do,” adding Daredevil was “very dark, cinematically,” it wasn’t “necessarily story-wise,” and Daredevil: Born Again is “much darker.”
Moreover, Dario also added another key difference between the two series. “There is more fun in the moments with these characters and a lot less navel-gazing than before.”
“The earlier show, at its best, was fantastic,” but “at its worst, it was two characters in a room talking about what a hero is,” he continued.
However, the showrunner insisted that he was “not taking swipes,” but he “just didn’t want to hear characters grousing about their lot in life; [he] wanted to see them doing things.”
To drive his point home, Dario gave an example of The Punisher. “One of our edicts [on The Punisher] was longer scenes. You had these long five-page scenes of characters hashing it out in order to make space between these massive action sequences.”
“The way stuff has evolved since then, we’re able to do big action sequences at a lot more pace,” he concluded.
