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Netflix’s The Defenders shows and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are coming to Disney+ this month

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With Netflix’s license for its Marvel TV shows now expired, Disney has announced that it will be expanding its Marvel Collection on Disney+ by bringing Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, The Punisher and The Defenders to the streaming service this month. The Netflix shows will arrive on Disney+ in the U.S., Canada, U.K., […]

Netflix’s Marvel shows are being removed as rights revert to Disney

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Although we’ve seen Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk making their Marvel Studios debuts in Spider-Man: No Way Home and Hawkeye respectively, it’s not yet been established whether these are the same characters from Netflix’s Daredevil show, or ‘variants’ of their old Marvel Television counterparts. However, we may not have to wait […]

Quentin Tarantino wanted to make a Luke Cage movie after Reservoir Dogs but his friends talked him out of it

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Way before the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe began and Netflix acquired the rights to The Defenders, director Quentin Tarantino had an idea for a Luke Cage movie featuring a beloved actor and has revealed why the project never came to fruition. In a recent episode of Amy Schumer’s Podcast 3 Girls, 1 Keith, Tarantino revealed that the idea for […]

Marvel’s Luke Cage showrunner says season 3 would have brought Luke “full circle”

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While all of the Netflix Marvel shows have been cancelled and seem unlikely to return in any capacity, Luke Cage showrunner and executive producer Cheo Hodari Coker has provided some closure to the fans by teasing the direction he would have taken the character in season three. In a recent interview with TV Guide, Coker couldn’t […]

Exclusive Interview – Producer Gail Barringer talks Emergence

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Red Stewart chats with Gail Barringer about Emergence… Gail Barringer is an American producer who has been working in the film and television industries since the early 1990s. She is best known for her producing work on projects like Person of Interest, Luke Cage, and Wu-Tang: An American Saga. Her latest venture is the ABC mystery […]

Luke Cage star Simone Missick was devastated by the show’s cancellation

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Simone Missick, known for her portrayal as Misty Knight in Luke Cage, has opened up about the show’s cancellation by Netflix and how she will never get closure for her character. In an interview with Collider, Missick claimed the news of the cancellation was the worst news of her life and hoped the show would have […]

Marvel Television felt “blindsided” by Netflix cancellations

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Marvel Television boss Jeph Loeb has stated that the studio felt “blindsided” by Netflix’s decision to cancel their library of Marvel television shows The Defenders, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Punisher. “The hardest part was while the situation at Netflix of which I really can’t go into other than to say that we were blindsided and […]

Marvel’s Kevin Feige plays coy on the future of The Defenders

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With the third season of Jessica Jones bringing the curtain down on Netflix’s Marvel universe, fans of The Defenders now face an anxious wait for news on the future of the street-level heroes. So far, the only character that Marvel has suggested will return is that of Daredevil, with the press release for the show’s […]

Netflix reportedly cancelled Marvel shows over steep licensing costs and lack of ownership

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Last week it was confirmed that Netflix has decided to cancel The Punisher and Jessica Jones, bringing to an end the streaming service’s partnership with Marvel which has also brought us Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and the crossover limited series The Defenders. Since the first of the cancellations last year, there’s been a lot […]