We wanted to have an opportunity to be able to tell stories about our street-level heroes and how that they could possibly interact in the world of Marvel without it feeling like it's completely detached and by the same token feeling like it's part of that world. 'That's what the Avengers do and they do it really, really well and those movies are incredible.

Loeb went on to define the differences between Daredevil and the Avengers, saying: 'When I watched 'The Avengers,' which is really one of my favorite movies, during the scene when the sky opens up, the Chitauri are coming and there's a giant battle over by Grand Central Station, even in the theater I was thinking, 'In the true Marvel Universe if you go about ten blocks over and an avenue down, there's a place called Hell's Kitchen and in that world are characters like Daredevil and Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, and those characters are not going to be involved in an inter-warfare-universe-colliding incident.'' In order to drive that point home, Marvel's Head of Television Jeph Loeb recently spoke to Jonah Weiland of Comic Book Resources on KFI AM 640 out of Los Angeles and offered some insights about how Daredevil and the other Netflix shows will differ from the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.įor instance, here's what Loeb had to say about Joss Whedon's 2012 The Avengers team-up:

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos has clued us in to the 'gritty crime stories' the series will focus on, distancing Daredevil from the fantastical space adventures of Guardians and the more Earth-bound exploits of The Avengers and Captain America 2, and has explained how much darker the show will be than the 2003 film.

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