Trouble, it appears, is afoot within the Mouse House. Daredevil: Born Again, the reboot of Netflix’s canned Daredevil series, is reportedly getting an overhaul. Marvel didn’t simply recast a facet character or have somebody punch up a script, no. Instead, it dismissed head writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman and is in search of new writers and administrators to take the helm, though a number of episodes of the sequence had already been filmed.

The transfer, per The Hollywood Reporter, got here after Marvel execs, together with honcho Kevin Feige, noticed the finished episodes. Whereas the Netflix series had been gritty and large on motion, Born Again performed extra like a authorized procedural, and the bigwigs didn’t just like the route it was taking.

Daredevil’s impending transformation comes at an inflection level for Marvel’s tv efforts. Since the studio launched with WandaVision in 2021, its sequence for Disney+ have had severe highs and deep lows. WandaVision, with its Fifties themes and big multiverse-cracking storylines, acquired followers excited concerning the prospects of Marvel episodic storytelling. Ms. Marvel was extraordinary. Secret Invasion, which launched earlier this yr, garnered among the most lackluster critiques of any Marvel present up to now. (It additionally prompted fan uproar after phrase unfold that its opening credit had been made with the help of synthetic intelligence.) It’s unclear who watched She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, however Loki’s second season—the one second season of any Marvel Disney+ present up to now—debuted earlier this month and racked up 10.9 million views in three days, barely lower than the season 3 premiere of The Mandalorian.

Big wins and close to misses are a part of the tv—and Hollywood—recreation, however such swings are pretty uncommon for Marvel, which had a near-decade of fixed cinematic hits. Much like its studio sibling Star Wars, it nearly appeared like Marvel couldn’t lose. But tv is completely different, particularly within the age of streaming. The success of recent sequence comes from gifted showrunners crafting full season-long arcs of sequence after which nearly keen them into existence. The Marvel methodology is extra storytelling-by-committee, with a lot of people weighing in on exhibits as they’re being produced after which making modifications after the actual fact. What’s occurring with Daredevil: Born Again appears to be a sign that that is altering. “We’re trying to marry the Marvel culture with the traditional television culture,” Brad Winderbaum, who heads up Marvel’s streaming efforts, informed THR.

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Reading between the traces of Winderbaum’s feedback, it looks like a lot of streamers could also be trying to conventional TV tradition for steering. After years of throwing money at exhibits to beef up their subscriber numbers, streamers are tightening their belts, on the lookout for extra apparent hits. Warner Bros. Discovery is yanking shows to economize; Netflix has floated the thought of raising prices as soon as the Hollywood actors strike ends (whenever that is). Disney is already pulling things from Disney+ and Hulu. Even if not one of the Marvel—or, for that matter, Star Wars—exhibits find yourself on the chopping block, it’s turning into clear that Marvel’s Disney+ choices shall be merchandise of a a lot completely different TV-making equipment sooner or later.

Looking again, it nearly looks like a mirage that Netflix ever made Marvel exhibits—significantly ones that confirmed difficult heroes like Luke Cage and Jessica Jones engaged in bed-breaking boning. Back when Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC was about all of the Marvel TV that Disney may deal with, Netflix was capable of make offers that allow it movie scenes that by no means would have made it into an MCU film. And, Iron Fist however, they weren’t unhealthy. The exhibits have been capable of make the leap from Netflix to Disney+ principally unscathed, however the odds that followers will see something related sooner or later appears low. The rollicking days of streaming are fading; it’s all simply conventional tv tradition now.