The Defenders
During the 2016 New York Comic - Con jury forMarvel ’s Iron FistTV series , a major annunciation forThe Defendershit the story : Sigourney Weaver has been officially announced as the yet - unnamed villainess who will take on the squad ofIron Fist , Jessica Jones , Luke CageandDaredevilin the first squad - up feature film for the Netflix Marvel superheroes . The series is presently in production , and will reportedly strike the streaming Robert William Service sometime after the first season ofIron clenched fist .
There ’s no discussion yet on who Weaver is portraying inThe Defenders , or what her role will be in the extremely - predict miniseries event . you’re able to check an prescribed video of Weaver joining herDefenderscostars - Charlie Cox ( Daredevil ) , Krysten Ritter ( Jessica Jones ) , Mike Colter ( Luke Cage ) and Finn Jones ( Iron Fist ) - onstage atIron Fist ’s NYCC control board , above .
As withThe Avengers , where fans did not officially learn which villain the team would face or the personal identity of the exotic foot - soldier they would spend much of the film ’s finale battling until the film commence to premier around the world , very footling has been revealed as to how the various Marvel Netflix serial publication are meant to derive together . Thus far , each show has focused on its own set of enemies , with character - crosswalk being limited to serious or impersonal members of the supporting cast , though a minor confederate fromDaredevildid finally pop up inLuke Cage .
Still , no shortage of fan theories have come forth that could point to what may or may not be happen : The second one-half ofJessica Jonesfeatured a subplot imply a biotechnology and chemical society involved in the industry of a drug - cocktail that could grant Captain America - stylesuperhuman strengthand reflexes to users ( with head - altering side - effect ) and implied a connexion between this and top - undercover information being hidden away by Luke Cage ’s recent wife Reva ; which was in turn revealed to be connected to the experimentation that give Cage his bullet - proof hide in his own serial .
Even still , it ’s not 100 % clean how a vague " bodied superhuman - expression conspiracy " ( which , while not in all probability connect , was also the main scoundrel plot in the first time of year ofAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ) would bear on Daredevil , who spent his first season battle a gentrification schema hatched by The Kingpin and his second combat the undead ninjas of The Hand - whose wispy plans involved makingmoreundead ninja and digging an enormous hole in the middle of Hell ’s Kitchen for yet - uknown ground . On the other hand , it ’s noteworthy that Matt Murdock and Jessica Jones both received their power in ( separate ) accidents involving chemicals of nameless lineage .
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Daredevilseason 1 & 2,JessicaJones time of year 1 , andLuke Cageseason 1 are now available on Netflix . Iron Fistseason 1 arrives on March 17th , 2017.The DefendersandThe Punisherarrive in 2017 . Release dates forJessica Jonesseason 2 andDaredevilseason 3 have not yet been announced .
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