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name: "Dario Scardapane"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dario-scardapane"
fi1m_id: "dario-scardapane"
imdb_id: "nm0769123"
tmdb_id: 1246914
wikidata_id: "Q102111505"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "20 May 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T23:28:41.509387+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dario Scardapane

## Identity

Dario Scardapane

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dario-scardapane
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dario-scardapane
- **IMDb ID:** nm0769123
- **TMDB ID:** 1246914
- **Wikidata ID:** Q102111505
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Scardapane, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102111505, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769123/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1246914

Writer. Born 20 May 1966 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 20 May 1966, Seattle, Washington, USA
- **Active:** 1993–present
- **Also known as:** Dario J. Scardapane
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 writing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 58 (1), 2020s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Scardapane, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102111505, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769123/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1246914

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Daredevil: Born Again*](https://film.one/tv/daredevil-born-again.md) (74)
- **Tubi:** [*Posse*](https://film.one/film/posse.md) (58)

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## Fi1m on Dario Scardapane

> Dario Scardapane is a writer who takes over other people's characters and makes them fit: a Western in 1993, two Marvel vigilantes since. He is good at keeping a long story moving and less good at deciding which of its stories matters.

The best things in *Daredevil: Born Again* (2025) are two men who have known each other for years talking across a table, and fights that still hurt to watch. Neither is a writer's invention. Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio brought Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk with them, and what Dario Scardapane did, as creator and showrunner, was decide where those two would be seven years on and build a season of capable crime television around them. He does that part well. The plotting is familiar and the pacing uneven, and the series never becomes more surprising than its first episode promises, which is why we recommended it with caveats rather than warmly.

That is the shape of his career. Scardapane was a punk musician in Seattle and then a journalist in Los Angeles before he wrote *Posse* (1993) with Sy Richardson for Mario Van Peebles. The Western has a pursuit, a hunt for gold, a railroad scheme, a romance each for Little J and Jesse, flashbacks that keep returning to the same night, and a frame in which an old man tells it all to two reporters. Each gets a scene and a half. We were impatient with it, and the impatience was the script's doing: six films' worth of incident and none given room, so the revenge it is heading towards arrives as one more item on a list.

Television suited him better, because television gives a writer the hours he keeps trying to cram into two. He created *Trauma* (2009), a medical drama with Cliff Curtis, and wrote on *The Bridge* (2013) and *Jack Ryan* (2018). On *The Punisher* (2017–2019) he wrote and produced for Jon Bernthal, and the two worked together again on the Daredevil revival. In between came *Memory* (2022), a thriller for Martin Campbell and Liam Neeson. He was brought in to run *Daredevil: Born Again* in 2023, after the series had already been overhauled once, oversaw two seasons, and left during post-production on the third in 2026. Nearly everything on that list was started by someone else.

So what he is good at is arriving late. He writes for actors who know their parts better than he does and lets them, and with directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead he found a tone for the revival that keeps the characters busy. He has said of the series that he "just didn't want to hear characters grousing about their lot in life. I wanted to see them doing things," and the show does keep them doing things. The weakness is the one *Posse* showed first: when the material is his to shape, he cannot bear to leave anything out, and the pieces end up competing for the same hour.

He has yet to finish a show whose characters he invented. We would like to see him try, if only to find out which of the six stories he would keep.

## Biography

Dario Scardapane is an American television writer and producer. Born on 20 May 1966 in Seattle, Washington, he worked as a journalist in Los Angeles before becoming a screenwriter.

He created the NBC series *Trauma* (2009). His other credits include writing for *Chase* (2010), *The Bridge* (2013), *Dominion* (2014), *State of Affairs* (2014), *Marvel's The Punisher* (2017) and *Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan* (2018). Film work includes the screenplay for *Memory* (2022). He is showrunner and writer on the Disney+ series *Daredevil: Born Again* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com, seattletimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Posse* (1993), Fi1m 58, as Photographer — [page](https://film.one/film/posse.md)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Daredevil: Born Again* (2025), Fi1m 74, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/daredevil-born-again.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Daredevil: Born Again* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/daredevil-born-again.md)
- *Memory* (2022), Screenplay
- *Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan* (2018), series, Writer, Consulting Producer
- *Marvel's The Punisher* (2017), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer
- *State of Affairs* (2014), series, Story, Executive Producer
- *Dominion* (2014), series, Writer
- *The Bridge* (2013), series, Writer, Consulting Producer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Chase* (2010), series, Writer, Consulting Producer
- *Trauma* (2009), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Faceless* (2006), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Try* (2000), Writer
- *The Darkling* (2000), Teleplay
- *Panther* (1995), as Student
- *Posse* (1993), Photographer, Writer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/posse.md)

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