Marvel Rumored to Be Moving Fast on Recently Revealed Revival

Arguably the biggest Marvel news Coming out of New York Comic Con was that Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter and the Head of Streaming, Television, and Animation at Marvel Studios, Brad Winderbaum, admitted to discussing a future for Jessica Jones beyond returning for Daredevil: Born Again Season 2. Whatever the studio has in mind for the character, Winderbaum teased that the new project would be coming “sooner than you think,” and one of social media’s busiest bees has now spoken on the subject.

According to social media scooper My Time To Shine Hello, Marvel Studios has started the process of assembling the creative team for the Jessica Jones revival by searching for a writer.

In 2013, 5 years after the MCU kicked off with Iron Man, Disney and Netflix reached a deal that allowed the streaming service to develop four live-action series based around some of Marvel Comics’ “street-level” heroes: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. The original deal called for a 13-episode series to be developed for each character with their stories intersecting in a crossover events series, The Defenders. Ultimately, each of the series were granted at least a second season and, in 2016, following the character’s debut in Season 2 of Daredevil, a spinoff series centered on Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, went into development.

In late 2018, Netflix began cancelling the series individually and by February 2019, the Defenders-verse died a quiet death in the trades. In March 2022, the series were all removed from Netflix’s streaming platform and appeared on Disney Plus as The Defenders Saga and were not included in the MCU Timeline or the Infinity Saga. However, in January 2024, Winderbaum canonized the projects, beginning the Netflixification of Marvel’s live-action streaming efforts. Now, a Jessica Jones project looks to be the next step.