The long-awaited team-up between Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist promised four years ago will come to fruition next year, most likely in the summer. Stranger Things dominated the late July media conversation and if I had to bet, they’ll seek to replicate that release again. Daredevil season 2 showrunners Marco Ramirez & Doug Petrie return for this show, with the added assist of Drew Goddard, an executive producer who had originally been set as Daredevil season 1 showrunner before departing to work on Sony’s defunct Sinister Six spinoff (his scripts for the first two episodes were still used).
All we have to go on currently, as far as story, is the briefest Comic-Con title tease, which includes a new line of dialogue from Stick (Scott Glenn, confirming his return),”You think the four of you can save New York? You can’t even save yourselves.” Now, if Stick’s involved, that means one thing: the Hand is too.
Apocalyptic undead ninja cult is just the right adversary for the Defenders to mook-plow over. It also implies that the show resolves the Daredevil season 2 cliffhanger, wherein Elektra dies but her corpse, stolen by the Hand. is placed in a mysterious black sarcophagus, all according to a legend called “the Rising.” Not ominous at all. According to IGN, when asked if Elektra might get her own show, actress Elodie Yung demurred, instead redirecting to her optimism that she would be in The Defenders, saying “hopefully, she’ll maybe be on the bad side.”
We can also look forward to Claire Temple enlisting Matt Murdock to free Luke from Seagate prison, where he was hauled off to as Cage‘s first season ended. For all the people who thought the earlier Marvel/Netflix shows were disconnected from the films and from each other, this series is the answer, with faces from across the shows promised to pop up, from the aforementioned Claire, Stick and (probably) Elektra to Punisher, Foggy and Misty Knight, with more surely to be revealed all the way until the night it premieres.
Got a nice ring to it.
Get a closer look at the villain!
The James Bond actor also talked about the film's lengthy production.
Wonder Woman rides the bus?
This is family business.
Henry Golding transforms into Snake Eyes in this cool sneak peek!