While Iron Fist will be the first Marvel/Netflix offering of the year in March, all eyes are on the summer launching team-up series Marvel’s The Defenders, and Entertainment Weekly has given a look at the team all together along with some details on how this team-up will go down.
Charlie Cox’s Daredevil, Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones, Mike Colter’s Luke Cage and Finn Jones’ Danny Rand all stand together on the latest cover from Entertainment Weekly, looking ready to take on any threat that faces them.
According to EW, the way this team comes together will be a bit of a surprise for the characters. All four will come across one another in the offices of Midland Circle (an operation introduced in the second season of Daredevil) and before they can actually introduce themselves they will have to fight their way through the corridors in a trademark Marvel hallway scene.
“Every one of them is following their own trail of bread crumbs, trying to unpack a mystery in New York,” showrunner Marco Ramirez told EW. “We wanted them all caught off guard. Once they’re in that room together, it’s kind of like, ‘Oh, s—, who are you?’”
The debut of the series is the culmination of a plan that has been in the works since 2013, when Marvel Television head Jeph Loeb was inspired by Avengers to try and build a television series based around some of Marvel’s lesser-known or popular heroes. A more street level team that is more concerned about protecting their own neighborhoods then taking on invading alien armies.
“The Defenders didn’t have a ‘D’ on their belt buckles and a Defenders Tower,” Loeb said. “We agreed from the very beginning that these folks could at the very end go, ‘I never want to see your face again.
While Marvel’s The Defenders is Loeb’s idea finally coming to fruition, it’s also the last series to debut that is part of the original deal that Marvel had with Netflix. That deal covered shows for Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and of was set to culminate with The Defenders.
Of course things have changed since that original plan with Daredevil airing two seasons with a third on the way, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage both getting upcoming second seasons, and The Punisher becoming a series that is spinning off Daredevil.
Marvel’s The Defenders has no announced release date yet, but is expected to likely arrive sometime around September.
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