After an incredible response to the first season of Marvel's Jessica Jones on Netflix, the streaming service this past weekend revealed that it will in fact return for a second season at some point in the future.
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Jones experienced a tragic end to her stint as a superhero, but began rebuilding her personal life and career as a private investigator working in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighbourhood.
Krysten Ritter stars in the titular role, with David Tennant playing the first season's villain Kilgrave. Mike Colter also stars as Luke Cage ahead of his own original series coming to Netflix later this year, with Rachael Taylor as Trish Walker and Carrie-Anne Moss, Eka Darville, Erin Moriarty and Wil Traval amongst the rest of the cast.
Speaking to members of the press after the panel which announced the news at the Television Critics Association's 2016 winter press tour, showrunner Melissa Rosenberg talked about what she wanted to do with the show's second season.
"I just want to continue with [Jessica's] character. She's a very damaged character, her damage goes beyond Kilgrave. There's a lot to mine from in her backstory and in her present day situation, so I think we'll find something."
Hoping to continue using the Jessica Jones comic book world for inspiration, Rosenberg does admit it may not be possible to follow them as closely as some may like.
"Unfortunately, we've moved away from the mythology of the book. The MCU is very different from the comics in terms of its mythology. In the books there were things building towards Civil War and all that, and here that's not the case.
"The nature of that is we're probably not going to be able to continue to do parallel storylines, but I'll always take as much as I can because it's really just so good."
Ritter said of the character - and there's spoilers here for the first season: "For Jessica, that final moment, that victorious, triumphant moment when she killed Kilgrave, I found that very conflicting. He's the reason why she got up every day. He's the reason why she went out in the world, and it really gave her a purpose. I don't think that the past trauma doesn't go away with his death. Her head space is really complex."
Taylor who plays Walker was also asked about her character and, whether or not she thought Trish would take up the mantle of Hellcat as she does in the comics.
Saying she didn't want to get ahead of herself, she did add: "But, of course, it would be amazing! It's already a privilege to play a history that has so much lineage within the Marvel universe and to take it that one step further, is something that, yeah... I'd love to get my teeth stuck into whatever happens to the character."
There's no word yet on when exactly Jessica Jones will return to Netflix. Daredevil's second season debuts on March 18, with Luke Cage coming later this year. Iron Fist and Defenders are expected to arrive in 2017.
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