Does television allow you to spend more time exploring the part where the Defenders dont get along at first?
Petrie: You have time over the many episodes, exactly, to spread out the characters, let them breathe, let them expand and let them get to know each other, so they dont have to love each other right away, but well love them by the end.
Ramirez: I really think what the focus of these shows and what makes a show like Daredevil and a show like [Jessica Jones] and Ive seen Luke [Cage], its fantastic, is that theyre really sophisticated character stories. So I think the thing that excites us the most going into The Defenders and writing these scripts is just to tell character stories and interaction between them, watch them bump up against each other.
That was the most fun part of The Avengers when they didnt get along for the first half of the movie.
Petrie: Of course. Its fun because its just like any other family. They have to fight.
Ramirez: Whats been fun is we have a lot of time to tell his story. Its not a two-hour movie. Well have eight or however many episodes so really everybody gets to interact with everybody. Its been one of the great joys of watching something like The Avengers or The Dirty Dozen, any movie like that. Any of those stories feels like people are going to watch people grow, bump heads, fight along the same side. We want to watch all that.
But glad to see it confirmed.
