Marvel's Luke Cage is right around the corner, debuting next month on Netflix, as the third series in the Defenders grouping. Iron Fist will follow at some point in 2017 along with The Defenders which will see those two characters team up with Daredevil and Jessica Jones, the latter of whom will then get her second season soon after.
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Speaking to EW, Jessica Jones showrunner Melissa Rosenberg was asked about who may be in Jessica's way in the batch of season two episodes, to which she replied: "Or antagonists, plural. No one is ever going to beat David Tennant as Kilgrave, so you don't do that. The biggest mistake would be to try to repeat that. You just go, 'OK, we're not doing that, so we have this open to us."
Rosenberg also opened up about the difficulties in planning the second season, as she has to wait to find out what happens to Jones in The Defenders series first.
She explained: "My colleagues Marco Ramirez and Doug Petrie, who are doing Defenders, they've shared material. We've sat down for many conversations about what are they doing, what's happening to Jessica? They want my input, they want all the different showrunners' input on the characters that they're most familiar with. Marvel was very smart in hiring those guys, because they're really collaborative. They enjoy collaboration, which is not always the case, and they listen, and we listen to them.
"We're really trying to find a way to respond to the things that they want to do, and them to respond to the things we want to do. So far so good. It's working out. If they weren't who they were as people, it could be very problematic. But they're the absolutely right people to do this."
The showrunner also noted she is keen in "continuing to explore the relationship between Trish and Jessica".
She continued: "That is the core relationship in the piece. It is about female friendship, it is about how friends evolve - they're sisters, really - and it's about how they evolve and ping off each other. I'm interested in relationships, whether they be romantic, or family, or friends, or professional - that's what's interesting to me, is Jessica in relationship to people."
Rosenberg did however confirm that whilst it's fine and she loves that people would love to see a romantic side to the friends' relationship, that's not what interests her about them: "To me, it's about their history, and their trust and connection".
Marvel's Jessica Jones is expected to return for a second season on Netflix in 2018. Marvel's Luke Cage debuts September 30.
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