Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist team up to fight crime in New York City.
Stars: Finn Jones, Mike Colter, Charlie Cox
Marvel's The Defenders, or simply The Defenders, is an upcoming American web television miniseries developed for Netflix by Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise and is the culmination of a series of interconnected shows from Marvel and Netflix. The miniseries is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios, with Ramirez serving as showrunner.
The limited series stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock / Daredevil, Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones, Mike Colter as Luke Cage, and Finn Jones as Danny Rand / Iron Fist, all reprising their roles from their individual series. Élodie Yung also stars as Elektra Natchios, reprising the role from Marvel's Daredevil. Development of the miniseries began in late 2013, with Cox the first actor cast in May 2014, and Jones the final of the title four cast in February 2016. Petrie and Ramirez joined as showrunners in April, after serving in the same role on the second season of Daredevil. However, Petrie left as showrunner at the start of filming in New York City in October 2016; filming concluded in March 2017.
The Defenders will consist of eight episodes, and is scheduled to be released August 18, 2017.
Set a few months after the events of the second season of Daredevil and a month after the events of the first season of Iron Fist,the vigilantes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist team up in New York City to fight a common enemy.
They're New York City's best hope but no one said they had to be superfriends.
Netflix’s heroic team-up show Marvel’s The Defenders (streaming Aug. 18) unleashes the good guys of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist to fight against nefarious forces led by Sigourney Weaver's mysterious villainess Alexandra.
However, this foursome is a long way from the Avengers. The first time Danny Rand (Finn Jones) meets Luke (Mike Colter), the kung fu master clocks his glowing Iron Fist straight into the bulletproof Cage’s jawline. “By the way, that didn’t even hurt,” Colter joked during a Friday Comic-Con panel for Defenders.