Here's Why Marvel Has Been Purposefully Withholding IRON FIST News

When Marvel and Netflix failed to announce, well, just about anything about Iron Fist, the fourth show in its lineup that began with Daredevil and leads up to the superhero team-up mini-series The Defenders, the internet began to wonder about the show's prospects. Reports started showing up about how the company didn't know what to do with the character, and then how they were reportedly going to turn Iron Fist into a movie and give Jon Bernthal's Punisher his own spin-off show to take Iron Fist's place on the roster. While we still aren't 100% sure whether those were legitimate conversations happening within Marvel's TV department, the company is now saying that the reason we haven't heard anything about Iron Fist is simple: they wanted to launch Jessica Jones without distracting from it.

Comic Book Resources spoke with Jeph Loeb, the head of Marvel TV, and he revealed the reasoning for the lack of updates:

"One of the things we wanted to be able to do was make sure that “Jessica” – which was a property that a lot of people did not know, and really, hats off to the people at Netflix who came up with the ad campaign, which is a sign that the world learned her name … Every time you start any property, whether it’s in comics or in movies or in television or in animation, everyone’s always looking for, “Tell us a little something about the next one, so we can get the jump on that story.”

There was a lot of speculation about what was going on with “Iron Fist,” because [fans] hadn’t heard anything about it, but there’s never been any change at all. We knew exactly what we were doing at Marvel and at Netflix. Let’s get “Jess” out there, everybody knows that “Luke Cage” is up and going. What I can say right now is, we’re very excited about “Iron Fist,” and the short answer is, yes there’ll be news."

That seems like an awfully convenient response, but to be fair, Daredevil definitely had more name recognition than Jessica Jones because of the Ben Affleck movie, so maybe that's why we heard so much about those other shows while Daredevil was getting off the ground. Or, maybe they still don't know how to handle Iron Fist, and they're desperately stalling as they try to get their sh*t together. I suppose we'll find out soon enough. For news about a potential second season of Jessica Jones, click here.

Via: ScreenCrush