By Travis Johnson
Netflix and Marvel took over Ballroom 20 at San Diego Comic Con and effectively unleashed a blitzkrieg of promo material and teasers that are, frankly, gonna be hard to top. they kicked things off with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdyiqNiCN0o&feature=youtu.be
…a pretty virtuoso sizzle reel to get us all excited about Marvel’s street level hero properties. Daredevil’s up in here, Jessica Jones too, we get a brief look at some new Luke Cage footage and, of course, a glimpse of this year’s breakout star, Jon Bernthal’s The Punisher.
Bernthal popped up in person to confirm that he’ll be back as the vigilante in The Punisher, the as-yet-unscheduled spin-off series. Also on hand were a huge number of Luke Cage personnel, including star Mike Colter, Alfre Woodard, Mahershala Ali, Theo Rossi, Simone Missick, Frank Whaley and showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker. Jeph Loeb, Marvel’s Head of Television, moderated.
To the surprise of no one and the joy of many, Daredevil‘s third season was announced, to wit:
Next stop: Hell’s Kitchen. Daredevil Season 3 is coming soon. #Daredevilhttps://t.co/tkWwJNBLJy
— Daredevil (@Daredevil) July 22, 2016
Plus Finn Jones, who plays Danny Rand in the upcoming Iron Fist, appeared via video (which sadly hasn’t been made available yet). The biggest hit of the night was undoubtedly the Luke Cage trailer, which looks just ridiculously cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml_xt1KAgyo&feature=youtu.be
…and to round it out, there was the teasiest of teasers for The Defenders, the team-up series to which all this mayhem has been building, complete with a bit of Nirvana on the soundtrack and a VO sting by Scott “stick” Glenn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKYThYh9C50&feature=youtu.be
That’s an artillery barrage of great news for Marvel fans. We’ll have more on all these as news emerges.
UPDATE!
Netflix has now released released the Iron Fist teaser. You lucky, luck people.