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Kuljit Mithra · Hardcore Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 1530 Location: Canada

Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage series all will be on Netflix, with a Defenders movie!

http://bit.ly/1c1JTpF

[I shortened the URL, since it was causing the page to get cut off]
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Stiltman62 · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 12:34 pm Post subject:

Wow...huge news!

I work for Disney in Orlando and being a Marvel fan was great news when Disney purchased Marvel (and they made the announcement on my birthday which was even better!).

Anyways, many said it was going to be bad for Marvel but synergy like this is what Disney is all about and this deal probably would have been difficult otherwise.
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Daredevil24 · Humanity's Fathom Joined: 06 Apr 2011 Posts: 367

Yes!!! Now give us a more dark and noir printed series and we're good.Go Defenders!!!

thank god for stilt-man · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:30 pm Post subject:

I love all of those characters. So this actually makes me excited about comics on screen again.

Guardian-Devil · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 1:51 pm Post subject:

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT???????? Is this a dream?? Am I dreaming??? OMG!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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qtmxd · Playing to the Camera Joined: 19 Sep 2010 Posts: 149

Sounds great, and I'm glad it's live action. While the comics may not be quite the same, it certainly suggests a return to noir and urban realism in a print run. What's going on now... Halloween monsters, Matt in plaid bermuda shorts ... is just painful.

james castle · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 4:03 pm Post subject:

It's great news for sure.

I'm a little worried about the Iron Fist/Luke Cage/Jessica Jones thing. Until fairly recently Iron Fist and Luke Cage weren't really that connected to DD. I feel like Bendis shoe horned them in because he was writing Avengers and thought they were "street level"? I dunno. Still, could be wicked.

(If they end up being "The Defenders" though, that will be dumb.)
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qtmxd · Playing to the Camera Joined: 19 Sep 2010 Posts: 149

I may not remember correctly, but I thought Bendis's DD and Alias were before he went to Avengers, and the Alias Max series ended. I thought his simultaneous runs on DD and Alias were about the best series I've read, and Cage fit in very well.
I don't like anything he's done on Avengers... to me, it's hackwork, character schtick, and explosions.
(I hope I'm reading the posts correctly.... the edges are being cut off).

SK47DD · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 7:19 pm Post subject:

I personally think this will help the character be brought back into the public eye from the negative press the film brought it.

I am excited for that. I am one of those Horn Heads that think DD should deserve a film, but, hey, a series is no joke as well. Superman was on TV with the Adventures of Lois & Clark.

As stated I think this is all good news for DD

Kuljit Mithra · Hardcore Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 1530 Location: Canada

Little bit of an update from Disney CEO Bob Iger from Deadline.com

http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/bob-iger-talks-up-marvel-netflix-deal-and-urges-patience-on-a-retrans-agreement-with-dish/

He basically says the 4 characters in the deal were not popular enough to get a feature film, but that could change if the shows do well.
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qtmxd · Playing to the Camera Joined: 19 Sep 2010 Posts: 149

If these shows were being done decades ago, when The Hulk and Flash were the standards, of course I'd want a movie. But now, with spectacle being essential for film, and television having evolved so far, I actually think the street level characters will work better on tv than movies. Sure, there's been some really good writing in some of the films, but it's largely buried in the action. Now a super hero show written on the level of Orange is the New Black... I'd take that over a movie.

qtmxd · Playing to the Camera Joined: 19 Sep 2010 Posts: 149

and remember a tv show now can be essentially R rated... a super hero movie never will be

The Overlord · Paradiso Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 1095

qtmxd · Playing to the Camera Joined: 19 Sep 2010 Posts: 149

I never gave a thought to watching SHIELD. The poster alone turned me off... a middle-aged white guy with four white and one Asian kid in their twenties, all of whom look like models. I'm hoping for something akin to Bendis's take on DD, where the hero lives in diverse world of real people. That's why I gave Orange is the New Black as an example on Netflix, not a network show. And of course there's plenty of hard edged police procedural shows that have been on cable. I remember a potential director suggested The Wire with super heroes. Nolan certainly tried with the Batman movies, and they were good, but still overblown and the hero was a stiff. Can any series capture the humanity of the heroes and those around them... television could be good at that.

Guardian-Devil · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:26 am Post subject:

I want at least PG-13 series and I don't even considering a big change in the suit, you know like what they did with Arrow!! But I do like the style of the Arrow series, maybe we would see a DD series like that but PG-13!!
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