Iron Fist debuted on Netflix to mostly mixed reviews. Some of the main complaints about the show was that it felt a bit incomplete, and too open ended. This could have possibly been a creative decision by Marvel, as Finn Jones, who plays Danny Rand a.k.a. Iron Fist, spoke about the ending of
Iron Fist leading into
The Defenders.
Jones told
Den Of Geek,
"At the end of Iron Fist, [Danny] doesn't even know what a superhero is. So then to suddenly be interacting with these three... [They] really make him kind of wise up and come to terms with his responsibilities a lot more. From the beginning where we see Danny in Iron Fist to where he ends up in The Defenders, he has made that complete origin arc. He has shed his immature self. The idea is, in The Defenders, he has in a sense become the Iron Fist."
The conversation then turned to if we will ever see Danny put on his iconic Iron Fist costume.
“The thing with all of these shows is not that we're shy to bring the costumes,” Jones says.
“It's that we want them to feel authentic when it does happen. Danny's on this journey to understanding what his responsibility is. And throughout all of [Iron Fist] season 1, he was in no state of mind to put a suit on. That would've been ridiculous because he was not fully accomplished as the Iron Fist yet and he certainly didn’t have the right or the responsibility to be putting on a superhero costume. He needs to work his shit out. And certainly by the end of The Defenders, it will feel right.”
The Defenders will premiere on Netflix August 18, 2017.