The next series in the Marvel TV universe ‘Jessica Jones’ is set to debut in late 2015 and the show will have a much different feel than its predecessor ‘Daredevil’….
One of the best parts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is while the characters all share the same space and can pop up between different franchises, one film or TV series can be much, much different than another set even in the same city.
Such is the case with the upcoming Marvel/Netflix series ‘Jessica Jones’ starring Krysten Ritter in the lead role playing a former superhero turned private investigator, who takes cases based in the super powered world.
The show is officially set to debut in late 2015 and ‘Jessica Jones’ will be the second series Marvel launches on Netflix after a massive reception for ‘Daredevil’ earlier this year.
In the long term, ‘Jessica Jones’ will eventually team up with ‘Daredevil’ in a Netflix event series titled ‘The Defenders’ but while both shows take place in New York, don’t expect the two series to have much in common other than that.
According to ‘Jessica Jones’ show runner Melissa Rosenberg, her series starring Ritter will be a much different type of show than what viewers got out of ‘Daredevil’. The source material — a comic book written by Brian Michael Bendis called ‘Alias’ — was a dark, graphic and often times grim look at the superhero underworld during a time when Marvel was launching a more adult label called ‘MAX’.
From the sound of things, ‘Jessica Jones’ will follow suit when the series launches later this year on Netflix.
“Jessica Jones is a very, very different show than Daredevil,” Rosenberg said at the Television Critics Association press tour on Tuesday. “We exist in a cinematic universe, the mythology of the universe is connected, but they look very different, tonally they’re very different. That was my one concern coming in — Am I going to have to fit into Daredevil or what’s come before? And the answer is no.”
While we probably won’t see a trailer from ‘Jessica Jones’ for at least another month or two, it sounds like the TV series will be just as adult oriented as the comic book. Ritter stars as the title character while Mike Coulter will co-star as hero for hire Luke Cage, before he moves on to his own Netflix series in 2016.
Rosenberg praised Bendis for his work on the original comic book and she’s been carrying that type of story telling forward with the show as well.
“(Brian Michael Bendis) created this incredibly flawed, damaged, interesting character,” Rosenberg said. “Regardless of gender, it was the character that drew me. We’ve been going further in all of our storytelling. There is no edge.”
Look for ‘Jessica Jones’ to debut on Netflix in late 2015.
