Marvel’s Netflix Shows Canon Debate Officially Ended By MCU Head Of Streaming

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• Netflix Marvel shows are officially part of the MCU canon, confirmed by a Marvel Studios executive.
• Challenges of balancing film franchises during the creation of Infinity War and Endgame led to the canon status of the shows being addressed later.
• Disney+ provided an opportunity to confirm shows as canon, connected to Daredevil: Born Again's retooling.

Marvel's Netflix shows, also known as The Defenders Saga, have received a major canon status update from a high-ranking Marvel Studios executive.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel Studios Head of Streaming Brad Winderbaum confirmed that the Netflix Marvel shows are MCU canon. Check out the full quote below:

We finally said it out loud. When the Netflix shows were coming out and being made, we were building towards Infinity War and Endgame. We were trying to balance all of these film franchises and get them to culminate onscreen in these two epic movies. To say it was a challenge is not even correct. It was one of the most challenging creative endeavors the studio ever undertook. I’m not sure there will ever be anything like it again in cinema. It took so much to get all that stuff to galvanize in that one place and in that one time so that people could have that experience in the movie theater.

So, at the time, to say, “Alright, we’re also going to take this television show and wrap our heads around that,” it would’ve been too much, even though we were communicating back and forth. Everyone on the television side and the film side knew what each other was doing, and you can see that there’s a continuity there. The references do line up, but it was just too much for us to wrap our minds around at the time.

Flash forward now to Disney+, where we are actually laying out the timeline with tiles on a screen, all of a sudden we’re like, “We should just do it. Let’s do it.” It was also spurred by the redevelopment of Daredevil: Born Again, once we started to really lean into some of the mythology and backstory that was established in those Netflix shows. I was asked about this during the press for Echo, and I realized, “Oh, it’s not just assumed. People have an active interest and they want confirmation.” So we were able to do it fairly quickly, and it’s interesting that the service of Disney+ actually became the statement just by rearranging those tiles. That’s our medium to define the canon now, which is wild to think about.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter


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