Why does MCU and Netflix MCU differ so much in showing graphic content?

salon_sue

Disney has strict rules on showing graphic content in its movies. We see a lot less blood even if a character falls from a great height. But Marvel shows, especially on Netflix, have a lot of graphic content. For example, in Daredevil , Kingpin took a person's head using a car door. Another example is smoking is not allowed in MCU movies, while we can see that a lot in MCU Netflix shows. Why is this the case?

Originally asked by Mithilesh on Stack Exchange (movies) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Starting with Daredevil , because it's the first of the Netflix Marvel shows to come out... Development In April 2013, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that the film rights to Daredevil and his associated characters reverted to Marvel from 20th Century Fox in October 2012, allowing those characters to be used within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As explained by head of Marvel Television Jeph Loeb in 2015, Marvel Studios had "first dibs" on the character once the rights had reverted. Drew Goddard pitched a new Daredevil film to Marvel, but Marvel was not looking to create an R-rated film, and Goddard did not want a "watered down version" of the character , as he also explained...

Full answer by Darth Locke: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/93063 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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