Krysten Ritter to Lead Marvel's JESSICA JONES on Netflix

It's official! After a slew of screen tests, Krysten Ritter has officially landed the lead role in Marvel's upcoming JESSICA JONES Netflix series, Deadline has confirmed.

The project follows Jones, "a superhero suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder, which leads to her hanging up her costume and opening her own detective agency, where she ends up helping people and assisting other superheroes."

Alexandra Daddario, Teresa Palmer and Jessica De Gouw were also in the running for the role.

Ritter is best known for leading ABC's short-lived, though much-loved, comedy DON'T TRUST THE B---- IN APARTMENT 23.

Led by a series focused on "Daredevil," followed by "Jessica Jones," "Iron Fist" and "Luke Cage," the epic will unfold over multiple years of original programming, taking Netflixmembers deep into the gritty world of heroes and villains of Hell's Kitchen, New York. Netflix has committed to a minimum of four, thirteen episodes series and a culminatingMarvel's "The Defenders" mini-series event that reimagines a dream team of self-sacrificing, heroic characters.

Produced by Marvel Television in association with ABCTelevision Studios, this groundbreaking deal is Marvel's most ambitious foray yet into live-action TV storytelling.

This new original TV deal follows last year's landmark movie distribution deal through which, beginning with 2016 theatrically released feature films, Netflix will be the exclusive U.S. subscription television service for first-run, live-action and animated movies from the Walt Disney Studios, including titles from Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Disneynature and Lucasfilm. Netflix members can currently enjoy a wide range of Disney, ABC TV and Disney Channel films and shows across the 41 countries where Netflixoperates.

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