Marvel is going full out to introduce (and reintroduce) their superheroes and they're going to start it with the Daredevil TV series and it will setup the much anticipated Defenders TV show!
Shows featuring other Hell's Kitchen-based heroes - Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist - will follow after The Man Without Fear, before all four of them unite in a Defenders mini-series. Marvel Entertainment's Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada has confirmed that the Netflix series will be part of the larger Marvel film universe, as depicted in previously-released Marvel Studios movies, as well as the ABC TV show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
Quesada was featured on Kevin Smith's Fat Man on Batman Podcast, where he formally confirmed that Marvel's Netflix programs will have ties to events in the larger MCU:
"There will be some interconnectivity, much like the movies. They will exist within the cinematic universe again, so this is all the same world as S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers."
The worlds of characters like Daredevil and Luke Cage - previously brought to life in comic book stories as well as in a heavily-criticized movie with Daredevil - tend to be very different that those of such superheroes as Iron Man, Thor, and the like. Quesada offered his assurances that those differences will be reflected in the upcoming Netflix shows, when compared to the rest of Marvel's shared film/television universe:
"Although these are superhero stories, this is different now. This is the street level...this is the street level noir side of the Marvel Universe. Something that you haven't really, really seen in any of our Marvel movies. And probably more ground level, than I think you've seen. This is not like us doing Batman, Dark Knight or any of that stuff. This is very Marvel doing street level superheroes."
Quesada also touched on the status of Daredevil. Beside offering enthusiastic, if also vague, praise for the script work by Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, The Cabin in the Woods), the Marvel executive offers his assurances that casting news will be coming "really, really soon." We'll be sure and let you know when it does, of course.
