Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones is a comic book come to life featuring a female character. Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios for Netflix have stepped up to the heroine based story with this upcoming series.
Here’s the story from Marvel about the female leads.
After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City. Trish is a syndicated radio talk show host, former model and child TV star known to her adoring fans as “Patsy” Walker.
The 13 part story will air in the spring on Netflix, but I don’t know an exact date.
Krysten Ritter stars as Jessica Jones. She’s hung up her cape and opened a detective agency.
Her best friend Trish will be played by Rachael Taylor. According to the publicity about Trish, she helps Jessica embark on the most dangerous case of her career.
Also in the cast are Mike Colter as Luke Cage, and David Tennant as Kilgrave.
Netflix has a deal with Marvel for 4 series. Fingers crossed, they are all lead by female characters. Melissa Rosenberg is the woman behind Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones.
Most women in actual comic books are just there because their boobs are falling out of their bras. Let’s hope that Jessica Jones on television can button her blouse and be an interesting lead character in a fun heroic romp. Krysten Ritter’ getting billing ahead of David Tennant, for heaven’s sake. She better be THE BOSS. She better be something this man can let his 7 year old daughter watch.
Rachael Taylor photo from Crisis by NBC – © 2013 NBC Universal Media. Krysten Ritten photo via IMDB.
I don’t know this character but I’m looking forward to watching it on Netflix