IRON FIST Season 2 Will Attempt to Make Danny Rand More Relatable to Audiences

The first trailer for Iron Fist Season 2 was released last week and the upcoming season looks better than I was expecting. Iron Fist has been the weakest character in these Netflix Marvel series, but they are hoping to change the way fans feel about him in Season 2.

Finn Jones talked to CBR about the upcoming season, and when talking about Danny Rand, he explains that they attempted to make the character more relatable. 

"Well, Danny at the end of Defenders, the last thing Matt said to him before he [died], was that he wanted Danny to protect his city. As we see in the episode of Luke Cage, he’s protecting downtown and Luke is protecting uptown. So when we see Danny first in Season 2, he is taking that responsibility very seriously. He’s on the streets, being the vigilante, protecting the streets of downtown New York whilst also he has just moved in his Colleen, his girlfriend.

"So he’s kind of at that age, and I’m sure some of you know the experience, you know, when you’re just hitting your early 20s and you’ve just got this new job and you’re moving in with your girlfriend for the first time and everything is just finally finding its balance, but with that comes new kind of challenges. I think it’s totally relatable. Danny is in a very relatable place for a lot of audience members because of that, trying to balance those things."

The new showrunner of the series, Raven Metzner, also talked about some of the changes that were made for Season 2, with how they took it from the setting of the corporate world to the gritty ground level.

"I think that Season 2 we took a holistic approach to creating a season of television which we really wanted it to feel to be on the streets of New York. So, in that way, the world of the show is different and that’s a big scene change comparatively because we’re not in the Rand Corporation. We’re out on the streets of New York. We brought a really talented D.P., Niels Alpert. Fantastic! Again, it’s all about the — that’s the cool thing about this medium, is it’s the collaboration. So it’s all about the throughline through, so our D.P. learned a lot about action from our stunt coordinator and vice versa and working with the actors and their relationship with those department heads. So it feels like a whole and it’s interesting and new."

Iron Fist Season 2 premieres on Netflix on September 7th. Do you think there's a chance that this second season of the series will be good?