Iron Fist (TV series)

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Iron Fist
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Genre
Created by Scott Buck
Based on
Showrunners
Starring
Theme music composer Trevor Morris
Composers
  • Trevor Morris
  • Robert Lydecker
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes23
Production
Executive producers
Producers
Production location New York City
Cinematography
Editors
  • Michael N. Knue
  • Miklos Wright
  • Jonathan Chibnall
  • Andrew Coutts
  • Tim Brinker
Running time49–61 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network Netflix
ReleaseMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17) –
September 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
Related
Marvel's Netflix television series

Marvel's Iron Fist is an American television series created by Scott Buck for the streaming service Netflix, based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Fist. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the franchise's films, and was the fourth Marvel Netflix series leading to the crossover miniseries The Defenders (2017). The series was produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios, with Devilina Productions also producing in the first season. Buck served as showrunner for the first season; Raven Metzner took over for the second.

Contents

Finn Jones stars as Danny Rand / Iron Fist, a martial arts expert with the ability to call upon a mystical power known as the "Iron Fist". Jessica Henwick, Tom Pelphrey, Jessica Stroup, and Sacha Dhawan also star, with Ramón Rodríguez, Rosario Dawson and David Wenham joining them for the first season, and Simone Missick and Alice Eve joining for season two. After a film based on Iron Fist was in the works at Marvel Studios for over a decade, development for the series began in late 2013 at Marvel Television with inspiration taken from martial arts films. Buck was hired as showrunner in December 2015, Jones was cast as Rand in February 2016, and Brett Chan served as the stunt coordinator for the first season. Metzner was revealed to be showrunning the second season in July 2017, with Clayton Barber taking over as the fight coordinator. Filming took place in New York City.

The first, 13-episode season was released in its entirety on Netflix on March 17, 2017. It received generally negative reviews from critics, but third-party data analytics determined that the series had strong viewership. A second, 10-episode season was released on September 7, 2018, to mixed but improved reviews. Netflix cancelled Iron Fist on October 12, 2018. All of the Marvel Netflix series were removed from Netflix on March 1, 2022, after Disney regained the license for them. They began streaming on Disney+ from March 16.

Premise

In the first season, after being presumed dead for 15 years, Danny Rand returns to New York City to reclaim his family company from Harold Meachum and his children Ward and Joy. When a threat emerges, Rand must choose between his family's legacy and his duties as the Iron Fist. [1] In the second season, after the events of The Defenders (2017), Rand steps up to protect New York in Matt Murdock's absence, until a new enemy threatens Rand's identity and those he cares about. [2]

Cast and characters

Episodes

SeasonEpisodesOriginally released
1 13March 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
2 10September 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)

Season 1 (2017)

No.
overall		No. in
season		Title  [a] Directed byWritten byOriginal release date
11"Snow Gives Way" John Dahl Scott Buck March 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
22"Shadow Hawk Takes Flight"John DahlScott BuckMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
33"Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch" Tom Shankland Quinton PeeplesMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
44"Eight Diagram Dragon Palm" Miguel Sapochnik Scott Reynolds March 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
55"Under Leaf Pluck Lotus" Uta Briesewitz Cristine ChambersMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
66"Immortal Emerges from Cave" RZA Dwain WorrellMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
77"Felling Tree with Roots" Farren Blackburn Ian StokesMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
88"The Blessing of Many Fractures" Kevin Tancharoen Tamara Becher-WilkinsonMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
99"The Mistress of All Agonies"Jet WilkinsonPat CharlesMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
1010"Black Tiger Steals Heart" Peter Hoar Quinton PeeplesMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
1111"Lead Horse Back to Stable" Deborah Chow Ian StokesMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
1212"Bar the Big Boss" Andy Goddard Scott ReynoldsMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)
1313"Dragon Plays with Fire" Stephen Surjik Scott Buck & Tamara Becher-Wilkinson & Pat CharlesMarch 17, 2017 (2017-03-17)

Season 2 (2018)

No.
overall		No. in
season		Title  [b] Directed byWritten byOriginal release date
141"The Fury of Iron Fist" David Dobkin M. Raven Metzner September 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
152"The City's Not for Burning" Rachel Talalay Jon WorleySeptember 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
163"This Deadly Secret..." Toa Fraser Tatiana Suarez-PicoSeptember 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
174"Target: Iron Fist" M. J. Bassett Jenny LynnSeptember 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
185"Heart of the Dragon" Mairzee Almas Declan de Barra September 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
196"The Dragon Dies at Dawn" Philip John Matthew WhiteSeptember 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
207"Morning of the Mindstorm" Stephen Surjik Rebecca DameronSeptember 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
218"Citadel on the Edge of Vengeance"Julian HolmesMelissa GlennSeptember 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
229"War Without End"Sanford BookstaverDaniel ShattuckSeptember 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)
2310"A Duel of Iron" Jonas Pate M. Raven MetznerSeptember 7, 2018 (2018-09-07)

Production

Development

An Iron Fist film had been in development at Marvel Studios since 2000, originally to be cofinanced by Artisan Entertainment. [28] Ray Park was hired to star, [29] but the project went through multiple directors and ultimately did not come to fruition. [30] [31] Development continued after Marvel Studios began to self-finance their films in the middle of the decade, [32] with Marvel hiring a group of writers to develop some of their "lesser-known properties", including Iron Fist. [33] In 2010, Rich Wilkes was hired to write a new draft for the film, [34] and by May 2013, Iron Fist was said to be one of the "projects on the horizon" for Marvel. [35]

In October 2013, Deadline Hollywood reported that Marvel Television was preparing four drama series and a miniseries, totaling 60 episodes, to present to video on demand services and cable providers, with Netflix, Amazon, and WGN America expressing interest. [36] A few weeks later, Marvel and Disney announced that Marvel Television and ABC Studios would provide Netflix with live action series centered around Iron Fist, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage, leading up to a miniseries based on the Defenders. [37] In April 2015, the official title was revealed to be Marvel's Iron Fist. [38] That November, Marvel Television head and executive producer Jeph Loeb addressed unconfirmed rumors that Marvel was having a difficult time balancing Iron Fist's mystical elements in its grounded world, and that the series could be replaced with a film or a Punisher series. He explained that Marvel and Netflix deliberately held off on Iron Fist news until Marvel's Jessica Jones premiered so that series, revolving around a character largely unknown to the general audience, got the spotlight. Loeb promised that news on a showrunner would be coming, [39] and Marvel announced that Scott Buck would serve in the role a month later. [3] The series was originally intended to be the third of the announced series from Netflix, debuting after Jessica Jones, but was switched with Marvel's Luke Cage after Luke Cage became a breakout star of Jessica Jones and Marvel wanted to "follow the momentum". [40] John Dahl, Cindy Holland, Allie Goss, Alison Engel, Kris Henigman, Alan Fine, Stan Lee, Joe Quesada, Dan Buckley, Jim Chory, Loeb and Buck serve as executive producers on the series. [41] A second season was announced in July 2017, [21] with Raven Metzner announced as the new showrunner for the season, replacing Buck. Loeb felt Metzner's "love of all things Iron Fist and his extensive knowledge of martial arts films made him the perfect choice" for new showrunner. [42]

Writing

Buck stated the series would have a lighter tone to it than the previous Marvel Netflix series, given that "Danny Rand himself is a much lighter character. He's someone that has optimism and hope, and despite whatever the odds are, everything is always going to work out." [24] On first discovering Rand's powers, Buck described them as "not the greatest superpowers. All he can do is punch really hard ... you can use it in some ways but in rest of his life, it's not really all that significant. His greatest gift is his martial arts skills, and that's something he suffered and worked for." [43] The writers and producers approached "scientists to discuss how someone could potentially have that type of super strength in the real world." [44] Loeb described the series as "Marvel's foray into martial arts films", and Buck stated that the comics were just "a starting-off point" for the series, which would be "very grounded [and] character driven". [7] Jones felt the series was "actually a feminist television show" calling the female characters "incredibly strong, incredibly unique, and they really hold the men up in that world... All the men in our show are falling apart. They need these women to hold them up". [12]

Each episode of the first season is named after Shaolin Kung Fu sequences, [24] [25] while each episode title in the second season is named after the issue title of various comics Danny Rand has appeared in. [26] [27]

Casting

Casting for Iron Fist began by November 2015, [45] with Finn Jones being cast as Danny Rand / Iron Fist in February 2016, [4] but not officially confirmed by Marvel until March. [5] On casting Jones, Buck said, "we saw him and I think we all just knew immediately this is our guy... He just seemed to be able to display [the character's youthful optimism and badass attitude] when needed and sometimes all at once, so he was very capable and flexible as he brought the character to life." [45] By April, Jessica Henwick, David Wenham, Jessica Stroup and Tom Pelphrey were cast as Colleen Wing, [10] Harold Meachum, [20] Joy Meachum, and Ward Meachum, respectively, [13] and by June, Sacha Dhawan had been cast as Davos, though he was not revealed to be in the role until March 2017. [18] In October 2016, it was revealed that Rosario Dawson would reprise her role of Claire Temple from previous Marvel/Netflix series. [19] Ramón Rodríguez also stars as Bakuto. [17]

Jones, Henwick, Pelphrey, Stroup, and Dhawan reprise their roles in the second season. [22] They are joined by Simone Missick as Misty Knight, reprising her role from previous Marvel Netflix series, [21] and Alice Eve as Mary Walker. [22] [23]

Design

Stephanie Maslansky is the costume designer for Iron Fist, after serving the same role for the previous Marvel Netflix series. [46] Maslansky noted one of the differences in the series compared to the other Marvel Netflix series was the neighborhoods it spent time in ("the wealthier neighborhoods; Midtown, Upper East Side, that sort of thing") compared to Hell's Kitchen for Daredevil and Jessica Jones and Harlem for Luke Cage. As such, Rand wears more suits than the other heroes, and given the amount of fighting he does in the series, a lot of spandex was added to increase the suits' flexibility. [47] The monk costumes and Rand's warrior costume was based on "real Shaolin warrior monk costumes... I took that distinctive silhouette from the Shaolin warrior monk clothing, and we combined it with the traditional colors of the Iron Fist, green and gold." [47] The series opening title sequence was created by Elastic. [48]

Filming

Filming for the series takes place in New York City, [49] in addition to sound stage work. [50] Manuel Billeter served as director of photography for the first season, after doing the same for seasons of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, [51] and Brett Chan was the series' stunt-coordinator and second unit director in the first season. [24] [52] The first season was filmed in high dynamic range (HDR), which Billeter stated added "a learning curve" to his work, forcing him to rethink how he would shoot certain scenes. [44] For the second season, Niels Alpert served as director of photography, [53] while Clayton Barber took over as the fight coordinator. [54]

Music

In late October 2016, Trevor Morris was revealed to be composing the music for the first season. [55] A soundtrack album featuring Morris's score for the first season was released by Marvel digitally on March 17, 2017, coinciding with the release of the season. [56] Robert Lydecker composed the score for the second season. [57]

Marvel Cinematic Universe tie-ins

Iron Fist is the fourth of the ordered Netflix series, after Marvel's Daredevil , Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, which lead to the miniseries The Defenders. [40] [58] [59] In November 2013, Disney CEO Bob Iger stated that if the characters prove popular on Netflix, "It's quite possible that they could become feature films," [60] which Sarandos echoed in July 2015. [61] In August 2014, Vincent D'Onofrio, Wilson Fisk in Daredevil, stated that after the "series stuff with Netflix", Marvel has "a bigger plan to branch out". [62] In March 2015, Loeb spoke on the ability for the series to crossover with the MCU films and the ABC television series, saying, "It all exists in the same universe. As it is now, in the same way that our films started out as self-contained and then by the time we got to The Avengers , it became more practical for Captain America to do a little crossover into Thor 2 and for Bruce Banner to appear at the end of Iron Man 3 . We have to earn that. The audience needs to understand who all of these characters are and what the world is before you then start co-mingling in terms of where it's going." [63]

Marketing

Disney Consumer Products created a small line of products to cater to a more adult audience given the show's edgier tone. Paul Gitter, senior VP of Marvel Licensing for Disney Consumer Products, explained the marketing focus would be more on older teens and adults than youth, with products at outlets like Hot Topic. Additionally, a Marvel Knights merchandise program was created to support the series, which creates new opportunities for individual product lines and collector-focused products. Licensing partners wanted to pair up with Marvel, despite this not being a film, given its previous successes. [64]

Release

Streaming

Iron Fist was released on the streaming service Netflix, in all territories where it is available, [1] in Ultra HD 4K and HDR. [65] The episodes for each season were released simultaneously, as opposed to a serialized format, to encourage binge-watching, a format that has been successful for other Netflix original series. [49] [50] Despite being branded as a "Netflix Original", Iron Fist was licensed to Netflix from Disney. [66]

Iron Fist was removed from Netflix on March 1, 2022, along with the other Marvel Netflix series, due to Netflix's license for the series ending and Disney regaining the rights. [67] Disney opted not to have Netflix pay a large licensing fee to retain the distribution rights for the series, [68] and instead announced that all the series would be made available on Disney+ on March 16 in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, and in Disney+'s other markets by the end of 2022. [69] [70] In the United States, revised parental controls were introduced to the service to allow the more mature content of the series to be added, similarly to the controls that already exist for other regions that have the Star content hub. [71]

Home media

Season DVD release dates Blu-ray release dates
Region 1 Region 2 Region 4 Region A Region B
1 —June 4, 2018 [72] May 30, 2018 [73] January 1, 2018 [74] May 30, 2018 [75]
2 —————

Reception

Audience viewership

As Netflix does not reveal subscriber viewership numbers for any of their original series, Karim Zreik, senior vice president of original programming at Marvel Television, provided some viewership demographics for Iron Fist in August 2017, noting that the series has attracted mainly younger viewers. [76] Also in the month, Netflix released viewing patterns for the Marvel Netflix series. The data, which came from Netflix's "1,300 'taste communities' around the world, where subscribers are grouped based on what they watch", showed that viewers would not watch the series in chronological order by release, rather starting with Jessica Jones, then Daredevil, Luke Cage and finally Iron Fist. Todd Yellin, Netflix's vice president of product innovation, noted that audiences watch the series "in order of how they're interested in them and how they learn about them." Netflix's data also showed that a viewer watching Luke Cage would most often then move on to Iron Fist, while other series with "coming-of-tales" such as 13 Reasons Why , Love and The 100 led viewers to starting Iron Fist. [77] In October 2018, Crimson Hexagon, a consumer insights company, released data that examined the "social-media buzz" for the series to try to correlate it with potential viewership. The data showed that when the first season premiered in March 2017, the season had over 120,000 Twitter and Instagram posts regarding it, and when the second season was released in September 2018, the posts had declined dramatically to under 20,000. [78]

Critical response

Critical response of Iron Fist
Season Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
1 20% (85 reviews) [79] 37 (21 reviews) [80]
2 55% (47 reviews) [81] 39 (6 reviews) [82]

The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported the first season has a 20% approval rating, based on 85 reviews, with an average rating of 4.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Despite some promising moments, Iron Fist is weighed down by an absence of momentum and originality." [79] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 37 out of 100 based on reviews from 21 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [80]

For the second season Rotten Tomatoes reported a 55% approval rating, based on 47 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Better action scenes and tighter pacing elevate Iron Fist's second season, but it remains a lesser light among MCU shows." [81] On September 7, 2018, Rotten Tomatoes announced that Iron Fist had the largest increase in approval ratings between the first and second season, increasing 33% at the time. [83] Metacritic assigned a score of 39 out of 100 based on reviews from six critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [82]

Accolades

Iron Fist was nominated in the category of Best New Media Superhero Series at the 44th Saturn Awards. [84] The series received a nomination for Best Original Score TV Spot/Trailer/Teaser for a Series at the 2019 Golden Trailer Awards. [85] [86]

Cancellation and future

On October 12, 2018, Netflix canceled the series, despite Marvel wanting to have the series continue on the platform. [87] Marvel said the characters from the series would "live on" despite the cancellation, and continue to appear in the MCU. [87] [88] Deadline Hollywood also reported that Disney was considering reviving the series on its streaming service, Disney+. [87] However, Variety reported that, per the original deal between Marvel and Netflix for the series, the characters cannot appear in any non-Netflix series or films for at least two years following the cancellation of Iron Fist. [89] Kevin A. Mayer, chairman of Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International, noted that, while it had not yet been discussed, it was a possibility that Disney+ could revive the series. [90] In February 2019, Hulu's senior vice president of originals Craig Erwich said that the streaming service was open to reviving the series, along with the other former Netflix series. [91]

Jones and Metzner had both believed a third season would be ordered and had planned the storyline for it, with Jones feeling the season had a lot of promise. Jones said it would have featured Rand and Meachum traveling the world in a buddy story, with Rand "fully charged up (and) fully in control", and finally assuming the role of Iron Fist. Wing, remaining in New York, would have been struggling to come to terms with her identity and newfound power before reuniting with Rand and becoming a couple. [92] In December 2021, Henwick revealed that she was offered the role of Xialing in the Marvel Studios film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), but turned it down because she wanted to reprise the role of Wing in a future MCU production. [93]

Ahead of Charlie Cox's appearance as Daredevil in Echo , which released in January 2024, Marvel Studios' head of streaming Brad Winderbaum acknowledged that Marvel Studios had previously been "a little bit cagey" about what was part of their Sacred Timeline, noting how there had been the corporate divide between what Marvel Studios created and what Marvel Television created. He continued that as time has passed, Marvel Studios has begun to see "how well integrated the [Marvel Television] stories are" and personally felt "confident" in saying Daredevil specifically was part of the Sacred Timeline. [94] With Echo's release, all of the Netflix series were retroactively added to the MCU Disney+ timeline, with Iron Fist placed alongside the Phase Two content of the MCU, after Ant-Man (2015). [95] [96] An update to the Disney+ timeline split out the series by season, with Iron Fists's second season placed between Doctor Strange (2016) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). [97]

Notes

  1. ↑ Each episode is named after Shaolin kung fu sequences. [24] [25]
  2. ↑ Each episode is named after the issue title of various comics Danny Rand has appeared in. [26] [27]

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