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Yesterday Marvel announced that starting in 2015 we would see TV series for their Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, all of which would lead to a miniseries event for The Defenders. According to Jay Rasulo, Senior Executive VP and CFO of the The Walt Disney Company, these characters may not be limited to Netflix, and the small screen.
"Marvel has thousands of characters…and it is not possible to mine them all with filmed entertainment. While these characters are attractive characters they are not among the most popular… it’s not likely we would have made feature films about them…though if they are popular on Netflix, they could become feature films."
It's interesting to see that the studio is using Netflix and these series as a way to test out the popularity of the characters, and see if they could work for the big screen. Disney's CEO Bob Iger added that they are also developing another Marvel TV series saying,
"We actually talked about making these series available to others. And there was quite a bit of interest for these properties in the marketplace. The answer is yes, we will as a company, create more original programming for platforms that are not ours. We have some great networks with ABC, ABC Family, The Disney Channel, not to mention ESPN and Life but they’re not going to buy original, scripted programming for a while. But we can sell just so much programming from Marvel, we’ve got a good show in S.H.I.E.L.D. and another one being developed for ABC- more plans on our Disney channel with Marvel, but this seemed to be a great opportunity and I think there will be other opportunities on other platforms to do some more things."
It also seems like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is going to be around for awhile. Marvel is going to have six series going by 2015, and hopefully one of them is for the Hulk.
