Charlie Cox Teases Daredevil Role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Charlie Cox isn’t saying yes. He’s not saying no. And honestly, that’s more than enough to send Marvel fans into a spiral.

With Spider-Man: Brand New Day arriving July 31 and the Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 finale still fresh, Cox opened up to The Wrap about the possibility of Matt Murdock showing up in Tom Holland’s fourth Spider-Man adventure — and his answer was carefully, tantalizingly vague.

“I mean, I went on Jimmy Kimmel last week, the second half of the interview is him trying to get out of me whether I’m in Spider-Man,” Cox said, laughing off the scrutiny. He acknowledged that back in the Netflix days, these kinds of crossovers were essentially off the table from a business standpoint. But things have changed. “Now that we are — having made these kind of mini-splashes with me in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Vincent in Hawkeye and Echo, it’s on the table, it’s on the cards. It’s possible, it’s available, and Jon [Bernthal] now going into Spider-Man: Brand New Day as well.”

He went further: “It’d be so cool to kind of have some kind of crossover with all of the Avengers, with Spider-Man as Daredevil, rather than as Matt Murdock — all of that kind of stuff.”

Fans heard every word of it.

The Born Again Finale Just Made Things Way More Interesting

The timing of Cox’s comments couldn’t be more loaded. The Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 finale dropped Matt Murdock into an orange jumpsuit and a prison cell after he publicly outed himself as Daredevil to take down Kingpin and save Karen. Wilson Fisk, meanwhile, is forced to step down as Mayor of New York and leave the country — with his Chief of Staff Sheila Rivera (Zabryna Guevara) stepping into the role, a character who also appears in the Brand New Day trailer handing Spider-Man the keys to the city.

The dominoes are clearly falling between these two corners of the MCU. And then there’s the trailer.

The first Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer shows Peter Parker fighting ninjas from The Hand — inside a prison. The Hand, for those keeping score, are classic Daredevil villains who featured heavily in Born Again‘s second season. Put a freshly imprisoned Matt Murdock together with a prison full of Hand assassins and Spider-Man swinging in, and you’ve got a crossover moment practically writing itself.

“Many moons ago, I would’ve believed that Daredevil wasn’t actually in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. But no. He’s absolutely in it. There’s physically no world where they don’t overlap,” one fan wrote on X. “It’s literally The Hand in a prison.”

But an Insider Is Pumping the Brakes

Here’s where it gets complicated. The Cosmic Circus’ Alex Perez, who has a track record with Marvel scoops, posted on X urging fans to dial back their expectations. “I’m going to need everyone to place their expectations close to [zero] for anyone expecting Peter to break Matt out of prison in Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” Perez wrote. “This breakout’s for another character [and] Matt’s still in prison when Daredevil: Born Again Season 3 starts.”

He then added a sharper detail: Daredevil “is not even in that prison to begin with.”

That’s a pretty definitive claim — and it tracks with what Cox himself said earlier this year. On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, he confirmed he wasn’t in the film and doubled down: “Marvel have been clear with me for now, at least, that I’m focusing on the show, that’s our focus. That really is the truth.” He was also deep in production on Born Again Season 2 while Brand New Day was shooting, which is part of why Bernthal was absent from the Daredevil series this time around.

Of course, this being Marvel, “that really is the truth” and a surprise cameo are not mutually exclusive concepts.

The Punisher Is the Real Bridge — For Now

Whatever happens with Daredevil, the confirmed Daredevil-to-Spider-Man pipeline runs directly through Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle. The Punisher is officially part of Brand New Day‘s cast, and the trailer shows Spider-Man addressing him as “Frank” — implying a familiarity between the two that the film will presumably explain. It raises an interesting question about what exactly Peter Parker was doing during Fisk’s anti-vigilante mayoral campaign, and whether Frank was part of that story off-screen.

The full cast for Brand New Day, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, also includes Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Tramell Tillman, Michael Mando, and Mark Ruffalo. The film picks up four years after No Way Home, with Peter now living alone in a New York that no longer remembers his name — and dealing with what the studio describes as “an unexpected physical change” and a dangerous new wave of crime.

As for Daredevil’s future beyond this film, Born Again Season 3 is already in production, with Cox currently on set. The season is tracking for a March 2027 release, and Cox teased that it draws from a beloved comic run. “There is an excellent Daredevil run in the comics that this season, at least at the beginning, pays homage to,” he said. “When I knew about that, I was very excited, because it’s a very, very cool storyline.”

Matt Murdock may not be breaking out of prison in Brand New Day. But something tells us the Man Without Fear isn’t staying in that cell forever.