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  • ‘Jessica Jones’ Final Season Trailer Puts the Hero to the Ultimate Test

    ‘Jessica Jones’ Final Season Trailer Puts the Hero to the Ultimate Test

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    “You are not, and you never will be, a hero,” Jessica Jones is told in the full-length trailer for the final season of the Marvel/Netflix show. We’ll see about that.

    As Jessica (Krysten Ritter) herself says, every story has a beginning, middle, and end. Well, we’ve come to that end. The third and final season concludes the super-strong anti-heroine’s story by pitting her against a very dangerous villain.

    In Season 3, Jessica attempts to repair her fractured friendship with Trish (Rachael Taylor) when she needs help defeating a highly intelligent psychopath, Gregory Salinger (Jeremy Bobb). Their mission is complicated when lawyer Jeni Hogarth (Carrie-Anne Moss) takes on Salinger as a client.

    And while Salinger may not think Jessica is a hero, she is trying to live up to her mother’s ideal of one. As showrunner Melissa Rosenberg told Entertainment Weekly, “She’s trying to look forward and build a future for herself and really finally put these hero powers and objective to the test. She’s actually really stepped into the position that her mother had hoped for her.”

    “Jessica Jones” Season 3 premieres with all 13 episodes on June 14.

  • ‘Jessica Jones’ Season 3 Premiere Date, Teaser Revealed

    ‘Jessica Jones’ Season 3 Premiere Date, Teaser Revealed

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    The third and final season of “Jessica Jones” is coming soon to close the book on Netflix and Marvel’s team-up.

    Netflix announced the Season 3 premiere date and released the first teaser for the comic book series starring Krysten Ritter as the superstrong anti-superheroine. All 13 episodes will begin streaming on June 14.

    The new season finds Jessica attempting to repair her fractured relationship with Trish ((Rachael Taylor) when she needs help taking down a highly intelligent psychopath.  But a devastating loss reveals their conflicting ideas of heroism and sets them on a collision course that will forever change them both.

    This final season of “Jessica Jones” marks the end of Netflix’s Marvel universe. All of the other shows within it have been canceled — “Daredevil,” “Luke Cage,” “Iron First,” and the team-up series “The Defenders.” Disney is launching its own streaming service, Disney+, this fall and is developing its own slate of Marvel shows for it.

  • Netflix Cancels ‘The Punisher’ and ‘Jessica Jones’

    Netflix Cancels ‘The Punisher’ and ‘Jessica Jones’

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    Marvel and Netflix have officially parted ways: The streaming service has canceled its remaining two Marvel series, “The Punisher” and “Jessica Jones.”

    Deadline reports that Netflix decided to put those series to rest, ending its marquee partnership with the comics powerhouse. Other Marvel series that were previously canceled by the streaming giant include “Daredevil,” “Luke Cage,” and “Iron Fist.”

    In a statement released to Deadline, Netflix confirmed the most recent cancellations. It also said that the upcoming third season of “Jessica Jones” would still air on the streaming service as planned.

    The statement said:

    “Marvel’s The Punisher will not return for a third season on Netflix,” Netflix confirmed today to Deadline. “Showrunner Steve Lightfoot, the terrific crew, and exceptional cast including star Jon Bernthal, delivered an acclaimed and compelling series for fans, and we are proud to showcase their work on Netflix for years to come,” the streamer added.

    “In addition, in reviewing our Marvel programming, we have decided that the upcoming third season will also be the final season for Marvel’s Jessica Jones,” Netflix also made official this President’s Day. “We are grateful to showrunner Melissa Rosenberg, star Krysten Ritter and the entire cast and crew, for three incredible seasons of this groundbreaking series, which was recognized by the Peabody Awards among many others”.

    “We are grateful to Marvel for five years of our fruitful partnership and thank the passionate fans who have followed these series from the beginning.”

    Marvel released its own statement about the news, striking a bittersweet tone that also teased a possible continuation for some of its characters — perhaps on the upcoming Disney+? The statement said:

    “It had never been done before. Four separate television series, each with different super-talented showrunners, writers, directors, cast and crew, coming out months apart and then …they would meet in a single event series all set in the heart of New York City. We called them The Defenders.

    And together we were thrilled by stories of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and even the Punisher joined in! They said it couldn’t be done.But Marvel assembled amazing teams to write, produce, direct, edit, and score 13 seasons and 161 one-hour episodes. Take a moment and go online and look at the dazzling list of actors, writers, directors, and musicians who graced us with the very best of their craft.

    We loved each and every minute of it.

    And we did it all for you — the fans — who cheered for us around the world and made all the hard work worth it.

    On behalf of everyone at Marvel Television, we couldn’t be more proud or more grateful to our audience. Our Network partner may have decided they no longer want to continue telling the tales of these great characters… but you know Marvel better than that.

    As Matthew Murdock’s Dad once said, ‘The measure of a man is not how he gets knocked to the mat, it’s how he gets back up.’ To be continued…!”

    Stay tuned to see if any of these series make the switch to Disney’s new service.

    [via: Deadline]

  • ‘Jessica Jones’ Star Krysten Ritter Is ‘Beyond Thrilled’ to Direct Season 3 Episode

    Krysten Ritter is making her directorial debut and she couldn’t be happier.

    The “Jessica Jones” star will direct a Season 3 episode of the Marvel show she leads, Deadline reports. She told the publication that she is “beyond thrilled,” and then highlighted how much she appreciates the chance to sit in the director’s chair.

    “I am beyond thrilled to make my directorial debut on ‘Marvel’s Jessica Jones,’” Ritter told Deadline. “The entire crew and cast has become family to me, and I’m so appreciative of the opportunity to work with our incredible team in this new way. I am so grateful that Melissa Rosenberg, Jeph Loeb, Marvel, and Netflix entrusted me to take the reins.”

    Once the article was published, Ritter got to celebrate the news publicly.

    “This is the best thing ever,” she wrote in part Wednesday.

    “Jessica Jones” Season 3 is already filming, but so far, there’s no word on which episode Ritter will be directing or when the show will return. Season 1 debuted in 2015 and Season 2 in 2017, so the earliest we expect it to return is 2019. Whatever the case, we’re excited to see how Ritter’s episode turns out.

    [via: Deadline]

  • Marvel’s ‘Jessica Jones’ Set for Season 3, Bringing More of Krysten Ritter’s ‘Favorite Thing’

    Your favorite snarky, moody, and hard-drinking heroine is coming back.

    Netflix has officially renewed “Jessica Jones” for Season 3. The Marvel series will continue following the adventures of the titular private eye-slash-superhero. Krysten Ritter will, of course, reprise her starring role. That means we’ll get to see her return to saving the day with biting wit and equally dangerous special abilities.

    Ritter celebrated the news on Twitter Thursday, raising an emoji glass and writing, “Here’s to season 3!”

    The actress then moved over to Instagram, where she shared a photo of herself on set and celebrated some more.

    “Cat[‘]s out of the bag!” she wrote. “Excited to finally be able to share that we are making another season of my favorite thing with my favorite people.”

    The big news unfortunately didn’t come with any timeline for the show’s release, but we’ll look forward to watching “Jessica Jones” Season 3, whenever that may be.

  • See the ‘Jessica Jones’ Season 2 Episode Titles Reimagined as Retro Comic Covers

    Marvel's Jessica JonesAhead of its season two debut later this week, Netflix has announced the titles for the next batch of episodes of Marvel series “Jessica Jones.” And the show took a very cool approach with the reveal, highlighting both the series’s comic roots and some awesome female artists in the process.

    In a video shared on its official Twitter page, the show compiled a collection of comic book covers, each drawn by a different international woman artist, that were inspired by each episode in the new season. The images are direct homages to retro comics and detective novels, and showcase an eclectic array of artistic styles.

    Of course, our titular heroine (played by Krysten Ritter) looks fantastic — and fantastically badass — in all of the artwork. We’re especially partial to the “Pray for My Patsy” cover, which is giving us some serious old school “Nancy Drew” vibes.

    As the show’s tweet directly acknowledges, “Jessica Jones” is a female-centric show both in front of and behind the camera, and it doesn’t seem to be a coincidence that its sophomore season is premiering on March 8 — which is also International Women’s Day. If these awesome covers are any indication of the quality ahead, fans are in for a big treat when they tune in.

    [via: Jessica Jones/Twitter]

  • ‘Jessica Jones’ Season 2 Trailer Teases Anger Management, More Whiskey

    Jessica Jones is still angry — that much is clear in the Marvel series’ latest trailer. Netflix dropped the preview Wednesday, teasing what’s to come in “Jessica Jones” Season 2.

    From what we can tell, the title character (played by Krysten Ritter) will be as pissed off as ever, even in spite of going to anger management. The new trailer opens with Jones in a group session, and we can pretty safely assume she’s not there by choice. In fact, it seems like the last place she wants to be. Although she participates, Jessica lets her emotions get the best of her and ends up showing her super-strength and scaring everyone.

    The trailer hints that Jessica will ultimately channel her rage into helping people. She did her best to mind her own business and drink her pain away in Season 1, but that didn’t work out so well. It looks like it’s time for her to take another approach.

    “Jessica Jones” Season 2 starts streaming March 8 on Netflix.

  • Here’s Your First Look at Marvel’s ‘The Defenders’

    the defenders, marvel, netflix, jessica jones, luke cage, daredevil, iron fistIt’s a superhero team-up that’s been more than three years in the making, and soon, Marvel’s “The Defenders” series will finally be hitting Netflix. Now, we have a sneak peek at the titular heroes together for the first time.

    In Daredevil (Jessica Jones (Luke Cage (Iron Fist (Finn Jones) — and debuted an awesome new image of the foursome. Each hero stares down the camera, looking tough and ready to tackle whatever challenge comes his or her way.

    As for what it is exactly that makes them decide to join forces in the first place, it’s still a bit of a mystery, though Marvel TV head honcho Jeph Loeb explains in an interview with EW that each of the heroes’ individual series has been carefully plotted so that their meeting in “The Defenders” is a natural extension of their existing stories. They’ll first come face-to-face in a crowded (read: filled with enemies) corridor in the Midland Circle offices, a nod to a plot line from “Daredevil,” from which they’ll have to fight their way out.

    “Every one of them is following their own trail of bread crumbs, trying to unpack a mystery in New York,” showrunner Marco Ramirez told EW of the lead-up to the big team-up. “We wanted them all caught off guard. Once they’re in that room together, it’s kind of like, ‘Oh, s—, who are you?’”

    Fans will be able to witness that fateful meeting themselves when “The Defenders” hits Netflix sometime this summer.

    [via: Entertainment Weekly]