{"id":39689,"date":"2016-02-25T17:39:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T01:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=39689"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:07:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T20:07:38","slug":"marvel-netflix-iron-fist-finn-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/marvel-netflix-iron-fist-finn-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Casts Their Fourth and Final Netflix Defender: Iron Fist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth and final Defender for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?searchfield=marvel&amp;utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marvel&#8217;s<\/a> Netflix universe has been cast.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome Finn Jones as Danny Rand aka <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?searchfield=marvel%20iron%20fist&amp;utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iron Fist<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jones is best known for his portrayal as Ser Loras Tyrell on HBO&#8217;s <em>Game of Thrones.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The character first appeared in his own solo series in the 1970s. He is a martial artist who also has mystical powers that allow him to wield the Iron Fist, which lets him summon and focus his chi.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s partly known for his team-ups with Luke Cage, which we will inevitably see on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no release date for <em>Iron Fist<\/em> yet, but there&#8217;s a chance we could see Danny on another character&#8217;s series first like we did with Luke Cage (Mike Colter) on <em>Jessica Jones.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this casting decision? Are you excited we have all four Defenders? Sound off below!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2016\/02\/25\/finn-jones-iron-fist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth and final Defender for Marvel&#8217;s Netflix universe has been cast. Welcome Finn Jones as Danny Rand aka Iron Fist! Jones is best known for his portrayal as Ser Loras Tyrell on HBO&#8217;s Game of Thrones. The character first appeared in his own solo series in the 1970s. He is a martial artist who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3795,388,558,109],"tags":[2716,3145,3926,112,1758,122,195,60],"yst_prominent_words":[14176,30129,21053,10791,21051,14175,6170,6180,14171,7213,6116,5852,11163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39689"}],"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=39689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64369,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39689\/revisions\/64369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39689"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=39689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}