When Netflix quietly dropped its successful Defenders run from the streamer, most assumed that would be the end of that. No more Daredevil. No more Punisher. No more Kingpin. Well, years later, we now know that’s not the case. In fact, those Netflix Defenders are slowly becoming defenders of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, which they only tangentially mentioned back in the day.
The Punisher is in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Daredevil returned in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Kingpin appeared in Echo. And now, another member of the team is returning. Jessica Jones, played by Krysten Ritter, is returning in season two of Daredevil: Born Again.
How exactly the character fits into the latest showdown between Daredevil and Kingpin, we’ll find out next week when the show returns to Disney+. As for why Jessica Jones is returning next instead of Mike Colter as Luke Cage or Danny Rand as Iron Fist, Born Again season two showrunner Dario Scardapane cited Melissa Rosenberg’s original Jessica Jones as “some of the best genre writing that I’d seen.” Which feels like a bit of shade to those other shows, but he continued.
“We were really about how these characters have developed and evolved and grown up since the Netflix shows ended,” Scardapane told Entertainment Weekly. “Jessica Jones, in particular, has interesting life events that we wanted to explore, and the banter between Charlie and Krysten is so damn good. We needed to get that flavor in.”
However, according to another Marvel executive, Sana Amanat, they want to be very careful with that flavor. Jessica Jones won’t be in a lot of Daredevil: Born Again, but it’ll be impactful. “We want to just at least be thoughtful with the limited time that we have, but be thoughtful with why they’re here and why they’re returning and where they’ve been and establish them in the context of this world,” Amanat says.
Daredevil: Born Again starts season two on March 24.
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Source: Gizmodo