‘Defenders’ preview: This is not the Avengers, challenge of team with Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Daredevil
Daredevil season 2 producers Doug Petrie and Marco Ramirez spoke with Slash Film about the upcoming The Defenders team up of the superheroes from the Netflix Marvel Universe.
“It was a very natural adjustment. I’m such a big fan of the other shows that it’s been really exciting to take Matt Murdock, who’s so singular in his focus, and spread him out into this other world,” Petrie said of the move from Daredevil to the new show.
“You have time over the many episodes, exactly, to spread out the characters, let them breathe, let them expand and let them get to know each other, so they don’t have to love each other right away, but we’ll love them by the end.”
On the bigger spectacle and explosions, “I really think what the focus of these shows and what makes a show like Daredevil and a show like [Jessica Jones] and I’ve seen Luke [Cage], it’s fantastic, is that they’re really sophisticated character stories,” Ramirez explained.
“So I think the thing that excites us the most going into The Defenders and writing these scripts is just to tell character stories and interaction between them, watch them bump up against each other.”
Petrie makes note of The Avengers, not getting along for the first half of the movie.
“Of course. It’s fun because it’s just like any other family. They have to fight.”
That prompted Ramirez to add that “It’s been one of the great joys of watching something like The Avengers or The Dirty Dozen, any movie like that. Any of those stories feels like people are going to watch people grow, bump heads, fight along the same side. We want to watch all that.”
