Yahoo Lifestyle Marvel ‘Exploring’ the Returns of Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist in the MCU; Charlie Cox Recalls ‘Some Feud Between Netflix and Disney’
Marvel Studios’ streaming and TV boss Brad Winderbaum revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that bringing back Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones, Mike Colter’s Luke Cage and Finn Jones’ Iron Fist/Danny Rand is something the studio is “very much exploring.” All three actors headlined their own Marvel series on Netflix along with Charlie Cox’s “Daredevil.” The foursome also teamed up in the “The Defenders” series. With Cox’s Daredevil now making the jump to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and headlining his own Disney+ series, fans are hoping the same will be true for his former Netflix co-stars.
“I can’t say much, but I’ll tell you that it’s so exciting to be able to play in that sandbox,” Winderbaum said. “Obviously we don’t have the unlimited storytelling resources like a comic book. If you can draw it, you can do it. It’s dealing with actors and time and the massive scale of production in order to build a cinematic universe, especially on television. But I can just say that all those variables taken into account, it is certainly something that is creatively extremely exciting and that we are very much exploring.”
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Netflix’s run of Marvel originals got its start with the launch of “Daredevil” in April 2015. The three other superhero shows followed, plus 2017’s “The Defenders.” All of the Netflix-Marvel series were then canceled in 2018 and 2019 in the lead-up to the November 2019 launch of Disney+. A contract prevented Netflix’s Marvel shows and characters from appearing in any non-Netflix series or films for at least two years after each series’ cancellation, thus explaining the long gap between Cox’s last Netflix appearance as Daredevil in 2018 and his first MCU appearance in 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” He popped up again in 2022’s “She-Hulk” and is now headlining his first MCU project with “Daredevil: Born Again.”
Cox recently spoke to GQ magazine about the night he heard his Netflix series was canceled, explaining “I got a call late at night, and my boss at Marvel television at the time said, ‘They’ve pulled all the shows. All five of them.’ There was some… I don’t know, it was a conversation about the politics behind it all, some feud between Netflix and Disney. My bosses at Netflix and Marvel all called and were very nice, and very polite, but it was done.”
The “Daredevil” actor revealed to People magazine last year that he was first contacted by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige about a potential return as Daredevil in the MCU all the way back in 2020.
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