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The crowded superhero genre needs to make room for a new entry today, as Netflix drops the first season of Marvel’s Luke Cage. It’s the third entry in what is now a six-series universe of Netflix shows revolving around Marvel’s street-level heroes and villains in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen.
Almost three years ago, Marvel and Netflix announced four separate series—Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage—to culminate in an Avengers-style team-up in a miniseries called The Defenders. Since then, Netflix has released two seasons of Daredevil (and ordered Season 3 in July), one season of Jessica Jones (and ordered Season 2 in January) and now Luke Cage. In April, it announced a spinoff series, The Punisher, centering around the character (played by Jon Bernthal) who was introduced in Daredevil’s second season.
That makes six Netflix Marvel series in all—with some characters appearing in multiple shows, like Luke Cage, who was first introduced last fall in Jessica Jones—which need to be plotted out and juggled by Jeph Loeb, Marvel’s head of television and the executive producer of all Marvel’s television series.
While Marvel has announced its film schedule for the next several years (it currently extends to a fourth Avengers film due on May 3, 2019, with three 2020 release dates already earmarked for still unnamed films), the company plays things much closer to the vest on the TV side. Next year will bring Iron Fist and The Defenders and then … only Loeb knows for sure.
“We very much have a schedule as to when things are happening, but we have chosen to say, look, this is where we are right now,” said Loeb. “I also personally tend to find that when you talk about something that’s coming, as opposed to what is happening right now, that people want to talk about the new thing, the new, shiny penny.”
