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The Defenders: "Something Wicked This Way Comes And It's Sigourney Weaver"

We're less than a week away from The Defenders dropping on Netflix and people are getting pumped. Most of the cast and showrunner Macro Ramirz talked to Playboy about the coming evil and trying to keep all of these stories straight.

The framework for this show has been laid out from the beginning in each of the series.

"Each of these shows has hinted that something bigger is coming," says showrunner Marco Ramirez, who also headed up Daredevil in its second season. "The answer is, something wicked this way comes, and it's Sigourney Weaver."

Ramirez talks about wanting to make the series approachable to new people while also making sure not to waste the time of fans.

"It was a tricky tightrope to walk because we had to do the math for somebody who's never seen any of the shows," he says. "On the other hand, we had to make a show that didn't necessarily do too much filling in, so that the super fans aren't like, 'Yeah, yeah, I know. You don't need to tell me Matt Murdock is blind. I've known this for 30 years.'"

He compared trying keep everything from the previous series and this one straight to something out of Homeland.

"There were charts," says Ramirez. "I mean, I was just popping pills, Claire Danes style, looking at the walls, going, 'This doesn't make sense!' It was seriously color coded like, 'This is where Luke ended. This is where Claire was.' It was crazy town. I think ultimately, the goal is that in many years, if you ever want to sit down and watch the whole thing, chronologically, you can."

There was the idea of bringing four viotile personalities together. This is chemistry and there is a very good chance this could blow up in their faces.

"I don't necessarily think that three minutes in, they're all going to be in a room together and there's going to be a mission statement on the wall. It needs to be organic," says Ramirez. "It just really felt like in order to honor the individual character arcs of each of the shows, we needed them to realize this was the next big chapter of their lives, individually."

Sometimes, even if everything is on the line, it's still hard to get along with people.

Summary: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist team up to fight crime in New York City.

Marvel's The Defenders, created by Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez, stars Charlie Cox, Krysten Ritter, Mike Colter, Finn Jones, and Sigourney Weaver. It will stream to Netflix on August 18, 2017.

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