Iron Fist star Finn Jones details the show’s scrapped third season

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

With WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and all the other upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe TV shows, Disney+ is definitely the new home of the small-screen side of the MCU, but for a few years, you'd have to head to Netflix for quality Marvel content. Beginning with Daredevil in 2015, Netflix's partnership with Marvel also brought Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, and The Punisher to the streaming service, but by early 2019, all of those shows had been cancelled.

The cancellations came as a bit of a surprise at the time as the stories weren't complete, but work had been done on subsequent seasons before the rug was pulled out from under them. Iron Fist star Finn Jones recently spoke with Collider about what the third season of his series would have brought to the table.

Raven [Metzner], who was the showrunner for the second season, and I were sure that there was gonna be a Season 3, so we had already devised the whole thing. I was so excited to get into that. It really was gonna be about Danny finally assuming the role of the Iron Fist, fully accomplished, fully charged up, and fully in control of his shit, as well. It was gonna be this amazing story [with] Danny and Ward off in foreign lands as a buddy storyline almost. And then, you had Colleen in New York, isolated with this new power, struggling to come to terms with her identity and with this power. At some point, we would have met again and probably formed this crazy power couple [or] superhero relationship.

Jones added that he felt Iron Fist was about to hit a peak, and likened the cancellation to the death of a friend. "You've spent years building this other world within yourself and sharing this other person with the whole world," Jones said. "Usually, with films or plays, you get to see that arc through. There’s a journey. But with 'Iron Fist', it was like we just got to the peak. We were just getting there. We’d just turned the show around. We had just done so much great work, really getting the train back on the tracks." I'll admit to never having watched any of Netflix's Marvel shows, but from what I can tell, Iron Fist seemed to be the weak link, although it seemingly showed much improvement with its second season.

Which Netflix/Marvel show would you most want to see resurrected?