Stay tuned for more on Iron Fist as we approach the March 17 premiere, and catch the trailers below.
In the comics, the white Danny Rand ends up in the ostensibly Asian mystical city of K’un L’un, though Jones suggests that more visible diversity in Netflix’s rendition alters the notion of his Danny co-opting any specific race: In the comic books, that place is essentially an Asian culture.
In Iron Fist’s case, at least, Jones expressed that Danny’s unworthiness to hold the title character’s moniker feeds into its dissection of a “white savior.”
There’s an ominous cloud of skepticism surrounding Marvel’s Netflix Iron Fist, that for as many trailers and featurettes precede the March 17 premiere, the fourth Defender series invariably co-opts Asian culture with its white lead.