Following multiple other territories indicating as such, Disney+ has now made it official that all six of Marvel’s original series for Netflix – Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher, and The Defenders – will be moving to the Disney+ service in the U.S. starting March 16th.
In addition, ABC’s “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” will also make the move. All the series will be made available across all other Disney+ global markets later this year. It has been confirmed these series will not be edited for content.
The move brings the Netflix series – all rated TV-MA – to a service that launched as a family-friendly destination with nothing above TV-14.
To accommodate the introduction of TV-MA programming, Disney+ will be updating its existing Parental Controls in the U.S. to use the same system it has already implemented for months internationally where Star is integrated into the Disney+ service.
This will only add to speculation that Disney is broadening the range of content on Disney+ beyond family entertainment to maintain subscriber growth in the U.S. after a big slowdown in new signings in November.
Internationally the service has already done so with the inclusion of the ‘Star’ section which contains content from Hulu, FX, and other Disney entities like the 20th Century Fox film library.
The inclusion comes ahead of the arrival of the “Moon Knight” series which has been dubbed “loud and brutal” by Marvel’s Kevin Feige. The rating for that show has not been revealed yet, but the series will debut two weeks after the Parental Controls system is put in place in the United States. A new poster for that series did get released today:
Check out the new #MrKnight poster. Watch Marvel Studios’ @MoonKnight, an Original series streaming March 30, only on @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/03rMH9ntFo
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) March 1, 2022
Source: Deadline
