RUMOR: Marvel Television's JESSICA JONES Revival Has Just Taken A Big Step Forward

@vectorsigma - "I want to see a project accurately animating marvel comic stories like how most anime properties are accurately animated from manga. How hard can that be? Id be all in on that."

The only thing you'll ever get close to this is Invincible, other comics not connected to Marvel/DC, or stuff like DC animated movies pre 2020.

@dragon316 - But why are things like LOTR beloved dragon? Because they went "all in", 95% in that case, on the story being accurate and not subverting expectations, I hate that line. See TROP, WOT, and dishonorable mention to The Witcher.

@TheVisionary25—That's good to know. Budgets make a huge difference in these types of superhero shows. And it shows like in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which looks fantastic.

@FallenThomas - Not REALY that forced when STILL far less than half of all TV shows (ie not specific to JUST comic based) have a female lead when over half of the population are female but get why it can feel that way considering how HUGELY skewed towards male lead it once was.

In regard to films it is still only 30% female lead and more broadly on the stats in films female make up around 32% of speaking roles, 38% of significant roles which are all up on when it was down at 25% or lower a couple decades ago.

Specific to Marvel with the Netflix shows FIVE were male led, only one female and thus far of those the first two to return (as a lead) will be male prior to the one female. IF we get a Luke Cage and/or Iron Fist series remains to be seen (and in the latter case if they will cont with the Female IF as lead or shift back to it being Danny again).

In regards to D+ we had clearly male lead shows with FatWS, Loki, Moon Knight, Werewolf by Knight, Daredevil, getting Wonder Man, VisionQuest and Punisher making a total of eight. Then two where it is only fair to say shared lead with one each male/female having the bulk of screentime with Hawkeye and Agatha. Female leads have been WandaVision, Ms Marvel, She-Hulk, Echo, Ironheart and now getting JJ making SIX to the EIGHT male led ones. NOW, thirty years ago an 8/6 M/F split would be unthinkable, at best you may have had one female lead to every 8 male so the shift is noticeable BUT still skewed male.

Prior to D+ with Marvel TV every time it was a team it was a male led team (AoS, Inhumans, Runaways, The Gifted, Mutant X) had a couple of split male/female lead shows (Cloak&Dagger, Helstrom) and only one female led show with Agent Carter whereas Male led ones over the years we had Spider-man, Hulk, Blade and Legion that readily come to mind.

As to Marvel films again mostly all male solo films the FOUR exceptions being one Elektra, Cpt Marvel, Black Widow, Madame Webb and the second Black Panther (can add in a couple of team movies but vastly out numbered by male led teams tween F4, GotG, Xmen and Avengers).
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Meanwhile with male led films we had Howard, three Blades, three Wolverine films, soon to be nine Spider-man, two Ghost Rider, DareDevil, two Hulk films, three Punisher films, three Iron Man films, four Captain America films, four Thor films, three Antman films, two Doctor Strange films, the first Black Panther movie, three Deadpool movies, three Venom movies, Morbius and Kraven of all the ones I can think of.

Again, the shift from ALL male to including SOME female led is relatively new so CAN feel forced (esp if they aren't great films or shows) but the numbers of male led V female led is still not indicative that female led are more likely to get greenlit than male led ones.

I realy am NOT getting at you with this, there has been a shift from almost entirely male led to a bigger share of female led (oft with not enough care taken to make them good) which can thus FEEL forced, but statisticaly STILL a major skew in the film and TV industry towards male lead and male characters over females. Simply so much content we tend to mostly hear about stuff more when likely to trigger certain groups thus reporting can cause a perception skew that the increase of female led is more than what it realy has been.

@Apophis71 - Yawn. It doesn't just 'feel' forced. I work in the industry and it's a directive. The truth of this has zero to do with your opinion. What you're missing from this diatribe is 1) The majority of the intended audience is MALE 2) This forced shift is laughingly apparent to even the casual onlooker 3) The female lead participation should have nothing to do with the population, just the intended audience 4) This very real directive is costing money in falling receipts. Everyone in the industry knows this but cannot speak up for fear of losing their livelihood.

@Apophis71 - Another lengthy reply Apophis, you've clearly far too much spare time. Sorry but too narrow a view to change my perspective. You can only look at female speaking roles as a percentage by movie genre, not movies overall as the huge amount of action led movies will always skew that number. How ever much we try, aside from the odd anomaly, we just can't force women in to action lead roles. It's implausible. Ironically, when it comes to speaking roles women should have 70% of the market as they dominate most human dialogue.

@Apophis71 - I think the problem is that female lead franchises have (in the main) been weak - Marvels, Ms Marvel, Ironheart, BP2 etc. I actually thought Black Widow was strong, largely due to the talent and Charisma of Scarlett and Florence. For your information I work in DNR (Design & Research for makeup and wardrobe development). No CBMs, unfortunately, mostly period pieces and at least 75% female.

@Apophis71 - haha I'm buried under a barrage of verbosity. Don't disagree with most of what you're saying but still think people are trying to force an rather unnecessary rebalance, which leads to poor product and eventual audience resentment. Let's just hope 'they' find a way to redress any perceived imbalance with quality, rather than just volume.

@Apophis71 - Finally a digestible, single paragraph reply :-D agreed

@Apophis71 - Well that explains the verbal diarrhoea and lack of punctuation :-D (Joke)
Thunderbolts is pretty good to be fair but that's mostly because of Red Guardian and the outstanding ability of Florence Pugh. It just seems to me that so far the weakest characters and performances have been mostly female - Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel, Monica Rambeau, Echo, Iron Heart, She-Hulk, Shuri's BP, America Chavez, Wasp, Ghost etc. However, I have LOVED Wanda, Black Widow, Yelena, Gamora, Valkyrie, Nebula and even Kate Bishop in short measure.