Clear out some time in your calendars for binge-watching, because Marvel unveiled three new teasers at San Diego Comic-Con for Netflix series that are in the works: Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders.
Mike Colter reprises his Jessica Jones role in Luke Cage, about a seemingly indestructible superhero rebuilding his life and avenging his wife’s death. In the teaser, Cage takes bullets without flinching and busts up a car door, all to Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya.” The series, which showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker called “the Wu Tang–ification of the Marvel universe,” will be the first of Marvel’s shows led by a black superhero, and each episode will be named after a Gang Starr song.
Iron Fist follows Danny Rand (Finn Jones), who inherits mystical powers after winding up in the magical K’un Lun as a child. It’s less forthright than the trailer for Cage; all we get are a few glimpses at Rand’s backstory—the snowy Himalayas, monks looming overhead, Rand strapped to a bed—and a shot of the New York skyline.
But Marvel’s third teaser is the most secretive: Both Luke Cage and Iron Fist will be united in 2017’s The Defenders, which will also feature Daredevil and Jessica Jones. “You think the four of you can save New York?” Daredevil’s mentor, Stick (played by Scott Glenn), asks in voice-over. “You can’t even save yourselves.”
