Vanity Fair: I know you can’t talk too much about Season 4, but what guidance did Marvel TV give you when it came to setting up another chapter?
Erik Oleson: Well, you’re right that I can’t talk about it, except to say that I hope to have a Season 4 and to run it. But we’ll have to see what the future holds in terms of how many people watch and what the response is to Season 3. I will say that we hinted at a few things, but whether we come back directly or not is still up in the air. At the end of Season 3, Marvel didn’t want me to permanently damage any of the toys. I had to put them all back in the box.
What does the news about Iron Fist and Luke Cage being canceled do to those hopes?
As I understand it, each one of these shows has their own viewership, and Netflix takes it on a case-by-case basis. Look, I’m not blind to the emergence of the Disney streamer and a potential Netflix competitor. What I can control is coming up with a good story, and telling it with great writers and great actors and a great crew, and just really doing the best that we can with the show. And my corporate overlords will decide the future that all of us will have. Let’s just hope that we get to do it again.