During New York Comic Con 2016, Collider caught up with Marvel TV head Jeph Loeb and he spoke to them about Marvel and Netflix's upcoming new show IRON FIST. Loeb teased the series and confirmed IRON FIST is in fact Marvel's homage to the martial arts genre.
"First of all, it was always our intent when we set out to tell each of the Netflix stories that they’re part of a piece, but at the same token, you should be able to watch each of them individually. Daredevil is not like Jessica Jones, which is not like Luke, which should not be like Danny. The first part is very exciting to us, and the second part, which is rather obvious, which is because we’re dealing with a character who is younger than the rest of the cast, and who also has a certain kind of optimism and hope about him that brings a certain thing to it. Don’t make any mistake about it, this is Marvel’s foray into martial arts films, and when he opens up a can of whoop-ass, people are going to be super-super excited by what’s happening.
“We began from a very, very real world place which is that when Danny was ten years old, he disappears and the world believes that he’s dead, and so when he turns up at the very beginning of the show at the age of 25 and says, ‘Hi, I’m Danny Rand, billionaire,’ the rest of the world goes, ‘Maybe not so much.’ A lot of it is about a journey of finding self, not just in terms of who his character is, but in terms of what he wants to be as far as ‘Who is Danny Rand? What is the Iron Fist?’ and then, ‘How do these things get together?”
IRON FIST showrunner Scott Buck also confirmed that the series will not follow the comic book source material.
To read more from this interview on Collider, click right here.
IRON FIST premieres exclusively on Netflix on March 17, 2017.
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