Next year, the Netflix TV series Marvel's Daredevil will debut, the first of four new shows including Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, which will culminate with The Defenders mini-series. The show will come 12 years after the Daredevil movie adaptation hit theaters, which many fans weren't pleased with.

Marvel's Jeph Loeb revealed in a recent interview that the movie will not inform what they are doing with the upcoming TV series.

"When we started talking to our actors and to our directors, this is with all due respect to the film, if you want to know what we're not doing, go watch the movie. If you want to know what we're doing, it's very much steeped in the world of the comics, but it also has a life of its own and that's really what television and our films really do is that we take the best....We hope and we're very confident that this is the beginning of something that's very exciting on Netflix."

However, he also added that the four shows, and how these superheroes come together in The Defenders, is inspired by Marvel's The Avengers.

"When I watched The Avengers, which is really one of my favorite movies, during the scene when the sky opens up, the Chitauri are coming and there's a giant battle over by Grand Central Station, even in the theater I was thinking, 'In the true Marvel Universe if you go about ten blocks over and an avenue down, there's a place called Hell's Kitchen and in that world are characters like Daredevil and Jessica Jones and Luke Cage Hero for Hire, and those characters are not going to be involved in an inter-warfare-universe-colliding incident. That's what the Avengers do and they do it really, really well and those movies are incredible. We wanted to have an opportunity to be able to tell stories about our street-level heroes and how that they could possibly interact in the world of Marvel without it feeling like it's completely detached and by the same token feeling like it's part of that world. And it's very much how it is in the comics, which is that Daredevil -- yes, one could argue that at some point he's been an Avenger but hey, you know, the reality is that so has everybody else [laughs]. The idea is that this is the world of people who are there to protect the neighborhood and if you believe in the neighborhood the way you believe in the planet then the emotional context is just strong."

Production is already under way on Marvel's Daredevil, although Marvel and Netflix have not announced a series premiere date for the show at this time.