The year was 2015, and Disney was testing how far it could stretch its recent Marvel Universe: Would it also work in the world of series? There was only one way to check it: when in 2015 they announced that they were going to make a series of ‘Daredevil’ and the distribution rights were open, it was Netflix that got ahead of Amazon to spend a fortune and buy them. Six series came out of this deal: ‘Luke Cage’, ‘Jessica Jones’, ‘Daredevil’, ‘Iron Fist’, ‘The Defenders’ and ‘The Punisher’. The Netflixverse had just been born.
Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage and the other
In 2022, things are no longer so simple – or so complex, depending on how you look at it. Netflix lost rights of all the Marvel series in March, months after the Kingpin made his first appearance in ‘Hawkeye’ and Daredevil did the same in ‘Spider-man: No way home’. It was clear what was going to be the definitive house of the old Netflixversebut there was still a question: When?
Today, Disney + has removed the doubt: it will be the June 29 when these six series are added to the catalog in a video in which they have been joined with ‘Agents of SHIELD’, a strange move given that they are not part of the same micro-universe… And It is now available for months. They haven’t said anything about ‘Agent Carter’, sadly.
Although nothing has been officially confirmed yet, worst kept secret from Marvel is a new season (or movie) of the Guardian Devil and the appearances of the rest of the Defenders (perhaps with the loss of the one that almost nobody liked, Danny Rand) in series and movies, expanding the UCM. We will be expectant, but when you see the tickets and the fame that you are not getting, we intuit that Netflix will be even more than us.