Disney, Marvel Television and Netflix have announced that Marvel's "flawed heroes of Hell's Kitchen" live-action television shows -- which feature Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones, followed by a miniseries event starring all four crime fighters -- will soon begin principle filming in New York. The series are Marvel's most ambitious foray into live-action television storytelling, and represents the largest film or television production project commitment in New York State history.
An exact premiere date for each series has yet to be set, but subsequent Blu-ray releases, beginning with
Daredevil, are already expected from Walt Disney Home Entertainment.
Last November, Disney and Netflix announced an unprecedented deal for Marvel TV to bring multiple original series of live-action adventures of four of Marvel's most popular characters exclusively to Netflix beginning in 2015. This pioneering agreement calls for Marvel to develop four serialized programs totaling 52 one-hour episodes culminating in a four to eight episode
mini-series programming event.
Led by a series focused on
Daredevil, followed by
Jessica Jones,
Iron Fist and finally
Luke Cage, the epic will unfold over multiple years of original programming, taking viewers deep into the gritty world of heroes and villains of Hell's Kitchen, New York.
Netflix has committed to a minimum of four, thirteen episodes series and a mini-series event in which the Marvel characters from the first four series team up as "The Defenders," much like
Marvel's The Avengers.
Embedded below is the full press conference featuring Marvel CCO Joe Quesada, Disney CEO Bob Iger and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo: