Finn Jones pins Iron Fist cancellation on “bad scheduling”

Last Updated on December 30, 2022

The Marvel Cinematic Universe Netflix series have been hit and miss, but one of its biggest flops has been Iron Fist, which was canceled after just two seasons. But star Finn Jones may have some ideas as to why Iron Fist ended up getting the iron boot after such a limited run.

In an interview with the Geekscape podcast, Finn Jones elaborated on why he thinks Iron Fist didn’t cut it, breaking it down by season. “The first season, there was a lot of creative challenges, and it didn’t live up to the expectations, and I think that came down to…scheduling conflicts,” he said. “That season of television was rushed because we had The Defenders that we had to film straight afterwards. We had to film [that], we had all those other actors locked into that schedule, so we had to film those 13 episodes of television in that set time, and unfortunately, we just didn’t have the time to do what was expected and what was desired, which was a kick-ass, amazing kung fu show and martial arts show. And the reason that show failed was because of the time constraints, because of bad scheduling.”

As far as season two of Iron Fist goes, Finn Jones said, “Season 2, we really understood what the flaws were, and we worked hard to course-correct the show. And in my opinion, we did…We did a fantastic job bringing that show back up to code. Unfortunately, just a month after that show had…premiered, all of the shows got deleted because Disney wanted to create their own series, they wanted to do their own thing on their own platform, which is understandable. But it was a shame that it kind of, just when we were out of the gate, ready to kind of go running, we were just, like, yanked.”

Many viewers of Iron Fist may not have liked the storylines or Finn Jones himself, but the actor is hoping he could rejoin the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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