Marvel TV Head Describes How 'The Defenders' is Going to Be Very Different
Jeph Loeb, head of Marvel TV, spoke with comicbook.com regarding all the latest on Netflix and Marvel's critically acclaimed franchise of shows. The Defenders, which brings Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist together against a bigger villain than any of them alone, sounds generic. But Loeb says it's anything but.
"Iron Fist is filming now, and it's going spectacularly. It's a very different story from this kind of story. Danny Rand lives in a different world than Luke Cage lives in," Loeb said.
"Am I looking forward to the day when they all get together? Yes! But the part that's exciting to me isn't that they may be able to be fighting some great big bad, it's that we've been able to take the time so that you can get to know Matt Murdock, get to know Jessica Jones, get to know Luke Cage, get to know Danny Rand, and each of them have their own 13 hour story, in some cases more than that, and really get invested in who those heroes are."
Loeb also can't wait to address the pondering question, "what happens when they meet? They're very different people. They have very different ways of pursuing their lives. They have a very different way of what they believe in.
"That's what's interesting to me. Hopefully those are the kinds of things we'll be able to explore once we get into the Defenders world."
