While Disney + celebrates the successful launch of WandaVision, which debuted in January, Marvel has regained the live-action rights of Jessica Jones and The Punisher from Netflix. The fact has a significant value: from today all the Marvel characters of which Netflix previously held the rights, among which we find Daredevil, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, are firmly back in his hands.
The multi-year agreement between Marvel and Netflix has therefore officially come to an end by closing a season that started in 2013 with the agreement between the two companies, which had given birth to a sort of Marvel television universe that had the ambition to give life to an operation similar to that of the Avengers. The main step of this strategy was the production of a cross-over series, The Defenders, which saw Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist reunited together.
In addition to the four superhero shows, in the Marvel / Netflix universe there was also a serial version of The Punisher, very dark and quite in line with his original comic series.
Recall also that the production of all these shows had already stopped in 2019, with the announcement of Marvel shows going into production for Disney +.
Now what?
At the moment, Disney's official streaming service is preparing to launch as well Falcon & the Winter Soldier and especially Loki, with Tom Hiddleston as the Norse god of deception.
We don't know what Disney + 's strategy towards the Defenders cycle inherited from Netflix may be at this point, but last year some statements from Charlie Cox (interpreter of Daredevil) had hinted that Marvel does not seem interested in continuing that editorial trend.
After all, Disney's unwillingness to resume the project is easily explained: the nature of the series produced between 2015 and 2019 was quite dark, far from the mostly "reassuring" style of the MCU, a creative approach that has led Marvel to never include characters and events from the series produced with Netflix in films for the big screen.
Should we expect a Defenders remake / reboot?
