Marvel en Netflix hebben via Entertainment Weekly een aantal nieuwe foto’s vrijgegeven van Marvel’s The Defenders. Deze kun je hieronder bekijken. De foto’s geven ons onder andere een eerste blik op Sigourney Weaver’s mysterieuze antagonist. Tot op heden is er weinig bekend over haar personage, behalve dat haar naam Alexandra is.
Uitvoerend producent en showrunner Marco Ramirez sprak tegenover het magazine ook over de serie:
“It’s ultimately a story about a family of orphans who are very grown-up but still have more growing up to do. This was something I told the writers: It’s taking the questions that were posed in the finales of each of their shows. So the last times we saw them, where are they, and what are they going to need to do in order to grow up? What do they, as they come out of their own seasons, need?… We never wanted anyone to feel like they’re a guest on anyone else’s show. It’s weirdly about all four of them. It’s about all of their collective stories finally folding in on each other.”
Over de toon van de verschillende series zei hij:
“One of the good things about how the other shows all operate is they’re all about a central protagonist, and at the end of the day, they’re not about superpowers. They’re all about someone who has some major flaw and some major crisis and also heroically somehow overcomes it. One of the things early on that I found helpful was not to think about how many differences they have but to go the opposite way and think about how much they have in common.
“And aside from the fact that they are all Marvel characters, there’s a recurring theme here with people who are orphans or people who don’t understand this urge but feel the need to do good and are constantly fighting inner turmoil and having that affect their personal lives. There’s a certain amount of maturity with how they deal with the superhero-ness of it all… We didn’t think about it in terms of how we’ll combine all the tones. We thought about the tone as its own thing. It’s about making sure this thing is something that could encapsulate all four worlds.”
The Defenders heeft hoofdrollen voor Charlie Cox als Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Krysten Ritter als Jessica Jones, Mike Colter als Luke Cage en Finn Jones als Danny Rand/Iron Fist. Daarnaast zien we de terugkeer van Elden Henson als Foggy Nelson, Deborah Ann Woll als Karen Page, Eka Darville als Malcolm, Carrie-Anne Moss als Jeri Hogarth, Scott Glenn als Stick, Jessica Henwick als Colleen Wing, Elodie Yung als Elektra, Rachael Taylor als Trish Walker, Simone Missick als Misty Knight en Rosario Dawson als Claire Temple.
De 8 afleveringen tellende serie zal in 2017 te zien zijn op Netflix, net als Marvel’s Iron Fist en Marvel’s The Punisher.
Marvel en Netflix hebben een laatste trailer vrijgegeven voor Marvel’s The Defenders! Deze kun je hieronder bekijken.
