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The hits just keep coming for the various Defenders series. Per Deadline Hollywood, Netflix announced this evening that it has canceled Daredevil, just weeks after the show concluded its critically acclaimed third season. This news shouldn't be too surprising, but this one is a particularly tough blow for fans.
Clearly Netflix is cleaning house, since this follows surprise cancellations in October of Iron Fist and Luke Cage. That just leaves Jessica Jones and The Punisher on Netflex's[sic] roster of Defenders. Both have new seasons in the pipeline that are currently slated to air on Netflix as planned, according to Deadline's sources. But they will, in all likelihood, be on the chopping block eventually as well.
Marvel/Disney may be planning to revive the Defender series on its upcoming streaming service.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Friday November 30 2018, @07:46PM (2 children)
They don't need to succeed every time or even the majority of times. As long as they're sufficiently dumping old IP that gives almost nothing to the authors since the old licenses didn't account for any new media, they're setting the market value for new IP, actors, camera crew, game developer studios, the guy taking lunch orders, etc...
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday November 30 2018, @08:34PM (1 child)
Doubt it will work. I know they redid Batman and Superman a bunch of times, but that was DC, which hasn't been all that great. These are Marvel characters, and somewhat intertwined with the movies too. I honestly don't see you replacing those actors with anybody better, and I don't see current fans attaching to the reboot either. Dare Devil was done pretty well, but The Punisher knocked it out the park.
Actors and Actresses for The Punisher, Dare Devil, Luke Cage, and Jessica Jones, are very good. The Iron Fist never seemed that great to me. This sounds like the death knell for Marvel television, if they can't get the right actors to play the part. Would you put up with a reboot of the Avengers with different actors? Guardians of the Galaxy?
I'll pass on the reboots. New Marvel stuff I'll give a chance too, but this is Disney. I can see them fucking it up real good trying to make it for children. The Punisher was not for kids :)
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Friday November 30 2018, @11:42PM
They can write a better plot... Interwove different series... Make it appeal to a different audience... It's not Shakespeare. Most capable actors would do given the right circumstances and directing.
There's no denying that, demographically, revenge plays typically target young adults. While I enjoy the best of them and consider them my favorite genre, the vast majority suffer from cringe worthy sloppy writing that fails to deliver charterer development and plot.
Rogue One proved they can pull it off. And although the performance was absolutely abysmal, approving the character of Kylo Ren shows they're far more open to non-cartoonish villains and heroes than people give them credit.
Honestly everyone just got better at managing diverse IP and the marketing people understand trying to force franchises the wrong way will hurt the sequels, and TV series, and merchandises... Well, at least something good came out of social networks.
Overall, I still feel they don't have to do to much to get something half decent and even that would be good enough for them when it come to the "side" IP.
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