Marvel Is Exploring Ways to Reunite The Defenders

Daredevil's highly anticipated next season is on the horizon, and the creative team is already brainstorming future possibilities, including a potential Defenders reunion.

In a recent EW profile, Brad Winderbaum, Marvel Studios' head of streaming and TV, expressed keen interest in reuniting the street-level heroes of Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist—better known as The Defenders.

While nothing is confirmed, Winderbaum stated, "It's certainly exciting to be able to play in that sandbox... Obviously, we don't have unlimited storytelling resources like a comic book, [where] if you can draw it, you can do it. We're dealing with actors and time and the massive scale of production in order to build a cinematic universe, especially on television."

He continued, "But I can just say that all those variables taken into account, it is certainly something that is creatively extremely exciting and that we are very much exploring."

Daredevil: Born Again will directly continue the Daredevil storyline from Netflix. Netflix previously hosted a smaller-scale Marvel universe featuring Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage. Winderbaum's comments suggest Daredevil: Born Again could serve as a springboard to revive these characters within Disney's MCU framework on Disney+. The inclusion of Jon Bernthal's Punisher in the new season further solidifies the transition of Netflix heroes to Disney+.

The possibilities remain speculative until the premiere of Daredevil: Born Again on March 4th. Only then will we see how Daredevil might integrate into the broader MCU.