Netflix Will Lose Its Marvel Shows At The End Of The Month
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 to watch only until March 1.
So what does this mean, besides the obvious? Disney is taking the shows back, but where will they appear? You might think Disney+ at first, but the Netflix shows were made for an audience much more adult than the general family zone WandaVision and Hawkeye have been aimed at. Since Disney does not allow TV-MA content on Disney+, we doubt Daredevil or any of the others will show up there. Hulu is more likely, but there is no official word.
And what about the characters — will they come back? Well, we already got our answer, but the bigger question is if any of the shows will continue. That ball is in Disney’s court right now.
panjitoto
February 12, 2022 @ 6:32 pm
Are they going to transfer at Disney Plus? I hope Disney Plus gives them New Seasons. To make it better make them join MCU
hifigoamodel
February 15, 2022 @ 1:12 am
I hope they do transfer in Disney Plus and also hope we get renewals. I cried when Daredevil was canceled. It was one of the best Netflix originals. I wish I was a billionaire so all of my favorite canceled shows gets new Seasons.
cmoneyspinner
February 15, 2022 @ 1:29 pm
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!