Sad news was released this weekend Luke Cage cancelled by Netflix. We were big fans of season 2 of Luke Cage and we were very saddened to hear that Netflix won't continue to produce the show any more. This coupled with the news that Iron Fist as a solo show will also not continue on Netflix is making us very concerned about the continuation of the creative relationship between Marvel and Netflix.

We originally intended for this to be a brief discussion in our news section of our review of Daredevil Season 3 Episode 3, but once it was recorded we realised it would probably be better as a standalone discussion. 

Most of this discussion is based on the Deadline article which broke the story. You can read the full article here https://deadline.com/2018/10/luke-cage-cancelled-marvel-netflx-mike-colter-cheo-hodari-coker-1202486487/ 

The main talking points from the Deadline Luke Cage Cancelled article that we discuss in this podcast:

* Luke Cage show runner for season one and two, Cheo Coker had his writers room for season three in place for about six months.
* The team had worked with guidance and notes from both Netflix and Marvel as usual for that six months.
* A final draft was of a thirteen episode treatment was delivered to Netflix last week. At this point they asked for the show to be cut to ten episodes.
* This seems to have been the final straw for the parties involved and Netflix has made the decision that because of these creative differences they will not be proceeding with Luke Cage as a solo character on Netflix.
* Luke Cage played by Mike Colter and Danny Rand played by Finn Jones will make appearances in the future but no confirmation of what that means have been provided. This could mean cameos that have already been filmed for the upcoming Netflix shows or it could mean a combined series of Heroes for Hire with Colleen Wing and Misty Knight. We will have to wait and see.

Thank you as always for listening along If you want to share your thoughts on this or any other topic you can email us at to feedback@defenderstvpodcast.com or you can join us on Facebook at Facebook.com/groups/defenderstvpodcast or you can of course follow us on Twitter @defenderscast.

We'll be back on Tuesday the 23rd of October with our discussion about Daredevil Season 3 Episode 3 "No Good Deed"

Thanks so much for listening

John, Chris and Derek

Defenders TV Podcast

Date recorded: 20/10/2018
Date published: 22/10/2018
MP3, 21.44 mins, 96kbps, 15.1 MB


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