Daredevil & Other Spider-Men Were Originally In Brand New Day, Confirms Writer

Published Sep 20, 2026, 10:53 AM EDT

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The Devil of Hell's Kitchen almost had two appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2026.

In an interview with The Bulwark, Chris McKenna, who was one of the writers on Spider-Man: Brand New Day, revealed that a version of the script had Charlie Cox's Daredevil involved. He began by sharing the following: "He had to have a persona. So it would be Peter from Queens pretending he's British because he was trying to disguise his voice. Tom Holland doing an American version of a British accent. He was juggling personas. He has to fall in with her to get in with this mystery, and he's pretending he's someone else: Ben Reilly. But he's Ben Reilly, British."

Another iteration of the script was going to center on Peter outside of New York, where he became "a badass hero in Southeast Asia, taking down Southeast Asian gangs. He has to go all the way back to New York to deal with this imposter. Like, who is this guy? He gets there, and he finds out, like, this guy is using my web fluid and he's using my suit. And it turns out the guy has done what Peter Parker had never done, where he actually copyrighted the Spider-Man brand, like trademarked it."

That is where the Devil of Hell's Kitchen would have been involved, as McKenna explained, "Then [Peter] had to hire Matt Murdock as a lawyer to help him fight because he got a cease-and-desist from this other guy. You can't pretend that you're Spider-Man. And so it became this whole thing that was pretty fun, but it was just a different story."

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day is playing in theaters.