Since 2015, Netflix has been developing and broadcasting series based on Marvel comics.
The ball had opened, seven years ago, with “Daredevil”.
Carried by the character of a blind lawyer fighting against injustice, the success of this first series was such that a sequel soon followed, going beyond the basic contract signed by the platform, which provided for only one season for each of the four series.
Shortly after, it was Krysten Ritter who, in the lead role of "Jessica Jones", joined the panel of superheroes, soon followed in barely two years by "Luke Cage", "Iron Fist", "The Defenders » and finally « The Punisher ».
So many programs appreciated for their ability to create an autonomous universe, where superheroes meet and interact within a world today known as the “Defenderverse”.
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Moreover, the bet was also, by transposing the comics into a more violent and darker atmosphere, to address an older audience than usual.
In the end, 13 seasons and 161 episodes will definitely leave Netflix next Monday.
Because this marriage between Marvel and Netflix, signed in October 2013, had started long before the appearance of another platform, Disney +, which only entered the streaming market in 2019. which coincides with the end of the renewal of the “Defenderverse” series since February 2019.
Logical, since the parent company of Disney + now owns the rights to Marvel, and it is likely that it is now working to bring together under its aegis all products relating to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Contacted, the French subsidiary of Disney does not give any information on this subject for the moment.
But the multinational has already delivered some clues indicating a future reappropriation of series formerly developed by Netflix.
Thus, in the film "Spider-Man: No way home", Daredevil makes a brief appearance.
Just like his sworn enemy, the Kingpin, who appeared in "Hawkeye", an original Disney + series.
Waiting for the return of “Jessica Jones” and all her colleagues on the big-eared mouse platform…