Speaking on Deadline’s Crew Call podcast, Cox revealed that the earlier version of the show was going to use “variants” of familiar characters like Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson, and Karen Page.

This would have made the new show take place in a different reality from the one seen in the original Netflix Daredevil series. The multiverse approach would have placed the Netflix story in an alternate universe rather than keeping it part of the main Marvel timeline.

Good thing they changed it, multiverse in everything is exhausting