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Netflix CEO Slams Marvel Studios For Being Too "Thrifty" With TV Budgets: "Every Time We Wanted To Add Something To The Show To Make It Better, It Was A Fistfight"

Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) brings a temporary end to the Kingpin's (Vincent D'Onofrio) reign in Daredevil Season 1 Episode 13 "Daredevil" (2015), Marvel Entertainment Despite each respective entry in Marvel Studios’ Defenders line being regularly heralded as some of the best media the Marvel Cinematic Universe has ever produced, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos is of the opinion that Disney’s hesitance to open their wallets prevented series like Daredev…

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Six years after the end of the universe of The Defenders, Netflix co-CEO, Ted Sarandos, finally explained the reasons behind the creative and budgetary constraints in his Marvel series, such as Daredevil, Jessica Jones, The Pusher, among others. In an interview with Variety, Sarandos stated: “We were dealing with the former Marvel Television team, which operated independently within Disney. And they were very thrift. Every time we wanted to impr…

Ted Sarandos, CEO of Netflix, returned to the collaboration with Marvel Television, evoking creative and financial differences during the production of the Marvel series on its platform. In the ruthless arena of streaming, here is round 12 412 of the confrontation between the two titans Disney/Marvel and Netflix. On one side, Disney, including the Disney+ service [...]

Netflix's co-CEO looks back critically on the collaboration with Marvel. In the joint series productions (like Daredevil) there were different priorities.

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