Netflix Will Lose Its Marvel Shows At The End Of The Month

[Peter Paltridge]

In 2015, back when this whole streaming thing was new, Disney allowed Netflix to have exclusive rights to extraneous shows based in the Marvel Universe. The next few years saw the releases of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, plus a crossover special, before Disney realized streaming was too valuable to let their IPs be handled by someone else. Thus, a shift in strategy cancelled all the Netflix Marvel shows, in some cases prematurely.
However, due to the terms of Netflix’s contract, they would still have exclusivity to the shows for the next few years, as well as rights to the characters that appeared in them. It’s now 2022 and that deal is expiring piece by piece. Daredevil was the first to return to the Disney roost and it allowed Matt Murdock to appear in Spider-Man: No Way Home last December, played once again by Charlie Cox. The final piece is about to be lost: Netflix just put a notice up on all four Marvel Universe shows that states they will be available...

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[cmoneyspinner]

Well! It's about time the Disney folks put their “thinking caps” on. Actually I think that was their thinking ad plan all along. What they did was they let a smaller business like Netflix “test the waters” for them. Then when they realized they could make BIG MONEY from shows based on the Marvel Universe, they snatched it from Netflix. LOL. Hey! The business world is a rat-race/dog-eat-dog world. Especially, the entertainment business. Of course, Netflix was smart enough to get their lawyers to hammer out some pretty detailed and explicit contracts. They held on to that “pot of gold” for as long as they could!