This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly, which hits newsstands on Friday, will give us the first look at Marvel’s The Defenders which is coming to Netflix.
After starring in separate series, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, will assemble together to tackle a common threat.
The preview of the upcoming issue revealed how this grouping came to be:
It’s a bizarre beginning for a budding superhero team, but if this first meeting of the Marvel minds looks chaotic, the planning of it has been anything but. The meticulously crafted origin story can be traced back to 2013, when Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb was watching The Avengers for the fifth time and thought about creating a television series focusing on Marvel’s lesser-known heroes who have long populated the streets of New York. Loeb chose the un-Avengers-like Defenders, who prefer to operate alone in their respective New York neighborhoods and have no interest in stopping Asgardians, saving the world from aliens, or chasing mythical gemstones. “The Defenders didn’t have a ‘D’ on their belt buckles and a Defenders Tower,” says Loeb. “We agreed from the very beginning that these folks could at the very end go, ‘I never want to see your face again.’”