IRON FIST Star Finn Jones Shares Why He Thinks The Marvel Series Failed
Marvel’s Iron Fist series is definitely considered to be the worst of the Netflix shows. There were just so many issues with it and it all started with Finn Jones, who a lot of fans feel was miscast. The problems also trickled down to the story, script, and lackluster martial arts fight sequences.
Jones shared his own thoughts on why he thinks the series ultimately was a failure, telling Geekscape in an interview:
"I think, really, the first season, there was a lot of creative challenges, and it didn't live up to the expectations, and I think that came down to ... really, it came down to scheduling conflicts. That season of television was rushed because we had The Defenders that we had to film straight afterwards. We had to film The Defenders, we had all those other actors locked into that schedule, so we had to film those 13 episodes of television in that set time, and unfortunately, we just didn't have the time to do what was expected and what was desired, which was a kick-ass, amazing kung-fu show and martial-arts show. And the reason that show failed was because of the time constraints, because of bad scheduling."
I can definitely see that as being an issue. You can see that the series was rushed through production because of how messy it was. Season 2 of the series wasn’t any better, but Jones thought it was and then Disney and Marvel ended up shutting the Netflix deal down:
"Season 2, we really understood what the flaws were, and we worked hard to course-correct the show. And in my opinion, we did. We did a fantastic job bringing that show back up to code. Unfortunately, just a month after that show had been premiered, all of the shows got deleted because Disney wanted to create their own series, they wanted to do their own thing on their own platform, which is understandable. But it was a shame that it kind of, just when we were out of the gate, ready to kind of go running, we were just, like, yanked."
Maybe one day Marvel will decide to play with Iron Fist again, but if they do, I imagine they will recast it and do something drastically different. The best character to come out of the Iron Fist series was Jessica Henwick’s Colleen Wing, I would have loved to see more of her story! Jones just didn’t really work in the role.