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Marvel’s Iron Fist: Season 1 Coming Soon Games of Thrones star Finn Jones will play kung-fu master Danny Rand who returns to New York City after being missing for years. He will use his kung-fu skills and the "ability to summon the awesome power of the fiery Iron Fist” to fight against the criminal element corrupting the City, according to Marvel.com. Scott Buck (Dexter) will serve as the Iron Fist showrunner after he impressed Marvel TV head honcho, Jeph Loeb. “Scott came in with a take on Iron Fist that quite simply knocked us off our feet,” Loeb told Marvel.com. “We always look for the most creative minds in the field to help us bring our heroes to life, and with Scott we’ve found someone that can deliver yet another great series in the ongoing story of The Defenders.” Jones will star alongside David Wenham (ruthless corporate leader Harold Meachum), Jessica Henwick (martial arts expert Colleen Wing), and Jessica Stroup and Tom Pelphrey as the Harold Meachum’s children. Carrie Anne Moss will also reprise her Jessica Jones role as lawyer Jeri Hogarth. Moss made a cameo as the character in the second season of Daredevil.
In the Marvel comics, Danny Rand is a white man with blond hair and blue eyes, but some fans were still calling for Marvel to cast its first Asian-American lead for the role before Jones got the part. Keith Chow, the founder of the Nerds of Color website, wrote a piece titled “Marvel, Please Cast an Asian American Iron Fist” in March 2014, which spurred the blog 18 Million Rising to launch a petition asking Marvel and Netflix the same thing. Even though Rand originated as a white character, Chow believed his story could be adapted for a second-generation Asian American. “The funny thing is, the story wouldn’t have to be that different,” he told Vulture after Marvel cast Jones. “All the basic story points could be the same: that he’s the son of this rich industrialist who’s obsessed with the mystical K’un Lun mountains (an actual mountain range in Asia with its own mythology). If the fundamental thing about Daniel Rand’s character is that he is an outsider when he enters K’un Lun, nothing about that is dependent on his whiteness. If you think that’s the case, then that is a very shallow reading of what it means to be an outsider." (Getty & Marvel.com)
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