<P> The second season will see Simone Missick reprise her role as Misty Knight . </P> <P> The superheroes Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist team - up in New York City . </P> <P> The Defenders sees Cox, Ritter, Colter, and Jones reprise their roles as Matt Murdock / Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Danny Rand / Iron Fist, respectively, from the previous television series . In March 2014, Loeb stated that the miniseries, officially titled Marvel's The Defenders, would begin filming after Iron Fist . In April 2016, Marvel announced that Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez would act as showrunners for The Defenders . However, by the start of filming in New York City in October 2016, Petrie had left the series as co-showrunner . Filming concluded in March 2017 . The eight - episode event premiered on August 18, 2017 . </P> <P> The miniseries also sees many supporting characters from the individual series reprise their roles, including, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Scott Glenn, Élodie Yung, Eka Darville, Moss, Taylor, Simone Missick, Jessica Henwick, Dawson, Ho, Ramón Rodríguez, Peter McRobbie, Morgan, Amy Rutberg, Susan Varon, and Nichole Yannetty as Karen Page, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, Stick, Elektra Natchios, Malcolm Ducasse, Jeri Hogarth, Trish Walker, Misty Knight, Colleen Wing, Claire Temple, Gao, Bakuto, Lantom, Turk Barrett, Marci Stahl, Josie and Nicole, respectively . Midland Circle, which was referenced in previous Netflix series, is revealed to be an operation of the Hand, who bought the building to search for the life substance hidden beneath the property . The miniseries also references the events of The Avengers . </P>

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