{"id":10376,"date":"2014-12-05T00:32:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=10376"},"modified":"2023-01-24T09:04:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T17:04:42","slug":"jessica-jones-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/jessica-jones-casting\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Makes Powerful Move in Casting First Female Defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/2014\/12\/05\/doctor-strange-jessica-jones-casting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doctor Strange casting announcement<\/a> was the end of the big news from Marvel, you missed something truly epic.<\/p>\n<p>Following Doctor Strange, there was a second Marvel casting announcement. <strong>Krysten Ritter<\/strong> is officially confirmed as <strong>Jessica Jones<\/strong> in Marvel&#8217;s upcoming Netflix series <em>The Defenders<\/em>. In the comics, &#8220;The Defenders&#8221; are a team comprised of individualistic &#8220;outsiders&#8221;. The team for this Netflix series consists of Matt Murdock AKA Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Danny Rand AKA Iron Fist.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Jones, sometimes known as Jewel, Knightress, or Power Woman, possesses the superhuman powers of strength, resilience, and flying as well as being a skilled detective and investigative journalist suffering PTSD. In the comics, she&#8217;s married to Luke Cage so we look forward to seeing them explore that relationship.<\/p>\n<p>We now know half the team. Charlie Cox was announced as Daredevil some time ago. Along with Ritter&#8217;s announcement, Mike Colter&#8217;s name is rumored for Luke Cage. Each team member will get their own 13 episode series on Netflix, with Daredevil premiering first sometime in 2015. There will also be a miniseries of the whole team together, which we presume will be the end of run. This team is set to take on &#8220;the gritty world of heroes and villains of Hell\u2019s Kitchen, New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this casting, Marvel fans? Are you excited for <em>The Defenders?<\/em> Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought that Doctor Strange casting announcement was the end of the big news from Marvel, you missed something truly epic. Following Doctor Strange, there was a second Marvel casting announcement. Krysten Ritter is officially confirmed as Jessica Jones in Marvel&#8217;s upcoming Netflix series The Defenders. In the comics, &#8220;The Defenders&#8221; are a team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,388,558,109],"tags":[3145,112,1402,1403,122,60,1401],"yst_prominent_words":[8617,14168,14176,7487,14172,12217,6293,11097,10426,14174,14170,14175,6180,14171,6073,7213,14173,5852,6121,7442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68947,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10376\/revisions\/68947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10376"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}