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Netflix Marvel Madness: ‘The Defenders’ & ‘Luke Cage’
First things first, let’s tackle the big news: “The Defenders” has found its showrunners! Douglas Petrie & Marco Ramirez, who spearheaded the second season of “Daredevil“, will be in charge of the Marvel miniseries event on Netflix. Drew Goddard (Cabin in the Woods), who has executive produced both seasons of “Daredevil” thus far, will carry over as well. The series is expected to begin production later this year after the first season of “Iron Fist” wraps its shoot. Kudos to The Live Feed on the scoop.
“The Defenders” will be an Avengers-like crossover for the four different Marvel shows on the streaming service, bringing together the likes of Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Coulter), and Iron Fist (Finn Jones) to combat an as-yet-unrevealed threat to New York City in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Whereas the existing seasons of “Daredevil” & “Jessica Jones” and the upcoming seasons of “Luke Cage” & “Iron Fist” have contain 13 episodes, “The Defenders” is expected to have a shorter order. No official number has been given at this time, but past comments have placed it around 6-8 episodes.
So what will the plot of “The Defenders” be? It’s honestly a bit too early to tell, especially since we still have the first seasons of “Luke Cage” and “Iron Fist” coming our way. That said, I wouldn’t be too surprised if the events occurring towards the end of the second season of “Daredevil” factor into things heavily.
Moving on, it has been confirmed (via Pitchfork) by showrummer Cheo Hodari Coker that the score for “Luke Cage” will be composed by famed hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest…
“It’s very sophisticated. I mean, it’s got a ’90s hip-hop vibe, but it’s really forward-thinking. We have Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad doing the scoring for us.”
“Luke Cage” premieres on Netflix this September 30th. “Iron Fist” and “The Defenders” will premiere sometime in 2017.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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