Only last week we learned about Marvel’s plan for four live-action shows on Netflix. It looks like they’re kicking the tires on at least two of these titles.
Drew Goddard is perhaps most well known for the genre-busting horror film Cabin in the Woods, which he directed and co-wrote with Joss Whedon. Goddard also adapted World War Z, and wrote for Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, as well as J.J. Abrams’ Lost and Alias.
Goddard has an unquestionable talent for relishing the dark corners of a story, an asset required for writing the life of Matt Murdock.
Melissa Rosenberg, who’ll be writing the once superhero now P.I. Jessica Jones, is known (by me at least) as the writer of the Twilight Saga. Rosenberg adapted all five of the films from Stephanie Meyers books. An unenviable task, frankly, that was done with mixed results. Rosenberg has also written for O.C. and Dexter, for which she won a producing Emmy.
This doesn’t appear to be Ms. Rosenberg’s first Jessica Jones foray, either. She’d scripted a pilot in the pre-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. days, that included Jones and her partner Luke Cage-another of Marvel’s Netflix show feature characters-as well as Carol Danvers.
I’m encouraged to hear development news on these shows quic
kly following their announcement. The Marvel expansion is a complicated project, and intriguing to follow as the inter-weaving narrative continues to grow in diversity of characters and diversity of platforms. The whole endeavor seems to rest upon Marvel/Disney/ABC all committing to making the universe operational. Hesitation or delay or failure on any of the new story-arcs could damage entire universe.
Except Avengers. Avengers will be fine.
