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Jeph Loeb Talks NYC And How Important It Is To The Marvel Universe

The city of New York has always been important to the Marvel universe. While the movies went global and then went cosmic the TV side of Marvel has stayed much closer to its NYC roots. Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory, executive producers of Marvel TV, recently spoke to Inverse about the concept of New York City and how it relates to the Marvel TV universe.

When asked how important New York City is to Marvel TV, Loeb reaffirmed that the city is the root of the comics, and that it's very important to the television universe, too:

"Well it's certainly where it stems from. You know the publishing division, all the way back to Stan Lee, decided that this was the greatest city in the world. They wanted the stories to take place here. It really wasn't until much later that people decided that they could set stories in Los Angeles, or Chicago, or Louisiana. I think that speaks to the elastic nature of the Marvel Universe that it can be in various places. But the characters that we chose for The Defenders — Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist — those characters predominately, live and work in New York and in many ways, around Hell's Kitchen. That gave us a really good place to ground the show and then it just became the reality of shooting here, both from a production point of view and a financial point of view."

Chory went on to say that when they decided to base the Marvel Netflix shows in New York they weren't just going to use the city as window dressing.

"I think that New York has got a lot of filming going on, but I think that it's a big character in the show. When Jeph said 'let's do it here,' that was what we wanted. We wanted it as a character."

When asked about how the New York City of the shows doesn't always gel with the New York of reality, Chory revealed that they are basing the city more on the comics and less on reality:

"Hell's Kitchen doesn't look like Hell's Kitchen in the comic books. So, Hells Kitchen has become, some of it in Greenpoint, some of it in East New York, and some of it in Harlem, and some of it in the Bronx. We try to be more true to the comic books than today's 42nd street, just because it wouldn't exist in under the same lights."

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