Marvel Has Finally Declared The Netflix ‘Daredevil’ Series To Be Part Of The Official MCU Timeline

When made a surprise appearance in , there were a lot of questions around whether or not the Netflix series counts as canon or not. In fact, Cox himself didn’t even know. While talking up his new series, , the actor seemed to be under the belief that the show was a reboot or “reincarnation.” That direction also tracked with his cameo in where Cox played a more playful Daredevil than what Marvel fans saw on Netflix.

My how things have changed. Since then, has gone through a full creative , and now, producer Brad Winderbaum has confirmed that, actually, the Netflix series is canon. Surprise! Winderbaum recently told that is now considered part of the “Sacred Timeline,” which has apparently become official Marvel lingo, and he explained why things have been murky: I can say that up until this point, we’ve been a little bit cagey about what’s Sacred Timeline, what’s not Sacred Timeline.

That was born of, frankly, a period at the studio where we were like, “We have to stick the landing with the vendors.” It was another part of the company developing the Netflix stuff. We were aware of what they were doing, they were aware of what we were doing, but there was a lot to balance anyway.

According to Winderbaum, the Netflix series have become more “integrated” into upcoming shows like , which flies in the face of Marvel’s recent declaration that is part of its new that, in theory, will be less connected to the MCU and require less homework, as it were. In practice, went from only being connected to to now having three seasons of Daredevil leading into it.

That’s a whole lot of backstory, folks. Marvel’s premieres January 9 on Disney+ and Hulu. (Via ).