Marvel’s Jeph Loeb who is the Head of Television for Marvel recently spoke to Entertainment Weekly about all of Marvel’s television shows. At one point the interviewer asked if we could see characters from Netflix make their way on to ABC for “Agents of SHIELD.”
See what he had to say below:
In terms of actors’ contracts, is it possible that some of your characters could bleed over from ABC to Netflix?
We’ve made no bones about it. It is the same world. We don’t want it to be an Easter egg farm. But we’ve acknowledged in Daredevil that there was an incident, as we like to refer to it, which is what happened in the first Avengers movie. We’ve made mentions of Iron Man. We’ve made mentions of Captain America. So once that’s happens, you’ve opened the door.
I can tell you Clark Gregg would pay for his own airfare, his own hotel, just to walk through the set. And the set, fortunately, for the Netflix shows is the city of New York. Our feeling is right now, the shows that we’re doing on Netflix are so young and so new, we need people to get to know Matt, and Foggy, and Karen, and we need people to get to know Jessica [Jones] and Trish [Walker, aka Hellcat] and Luke [Cage]. Once they’re invested in that, it really is the same thing that we did with S.H.I.E.L.D. Trust us. Get to know the characters, invest in them, and then…There may be some.
Theoretically they could cross over though?
Absolutely! There is nothing that could make it not happen. It’s just a question of when it would happen and when it’s appropriate.
It’s an excellent interview that goes in depth when talking about Marvel’s television shows and what goes into making them. You can read the full thing by clicking HERE and we highly recommend that you do.
