NEXT year's Avengers film is the culmination of Marvel's current plans to bring its comic books to the live-action arena. And now television will add further breadth and depth to that world.
Among the several Marvel-derived small-screen projects are Guillermo del Toro's Hulk, The Punisher, Cloak & Dagger and AKA Jessica Jones.
The last on that list is being scripted and executive-produced by Twilight screenwriter and Dexter producer Melissa Rosenberg, who has confirmed that the show will be part of the Marvel Universe.
"As we go along things will alter in terms of what is made available to us, but we're definitely in that universe," Rosenberg explained to HitFix. "We are in no way denying that that universe exists. And as much as I can, I'm going to pull everything in from there that I can use."
She will have to take into account the legalities of Marvel characters in the hands of other studios (for instance, Fox has X-Men, Fantastic Four and Daredevil, Sony has Spider-Man and Ghost Rider): "It's very tricky navigation there. You can't mention one guy because Fox has the rights to that guy and Universal has the rights to the other one.
"There are a lot of boundaries on who you can and can't use," Rosenberg admits. "I had Jessica Jones and Luke Cage and Carol Danvers [for the pilot script]. Basically, I wanted those three guys - then I would have a series. Everyone else we can be digging into lesser-known characters or taking known characters and renaming them."
Even with the abortive attempt at a new Wonder Woman show, the scribe's not worried, as she explains to MovieLine: "I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what's her costume going to look like?
"Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys. So we have more freedom to actually bring the character to the scree...
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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]
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