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Marvel has officially announced that Krysten Ritter will star in their Netflix Jessica Jones series - and that the show is now titled Marvel's A.K.A. Jessica Jones, a slight variation on the title the show was originally going by years ago, when it was initially developed for ABC.

Krysten Ritter will play Jessica Jones.

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"Krysten brings both the hard edge and the vulnerability the role demands," said Executive Producer/Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg, in the announcement. "We can't wait for fans to see her in action, coming to Netflix in 2015.""Krysten Ritter has the type of range, spanning the comic to the tragic, that makes for the stuff of the best Marvel heroes," said Jeph Loeb, Executive Producer/Marvel's Head of Television. "As Jessica Jones, Krysten will bring one of the most beloved new characters of the past decade to life in a way we know will delight her longtime fans and introduce her to many more."Marvel's official description for the series reads, "Ritter will play Jessica Jones, first introduced in writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Gaydos' classic Alias comic series. After a tragic ending to her short-lived Super Hero stint, Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City."The press release also reveals that A.K.A. Jessica Jones, like Daredevil, will debut in 2015 on Netflix. Daredevil will launch sometime in May, so presumably Jessica Jones will debut later in the year.Original story follows.

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It appears that Krysten Ritter (Breaking Bad, Veronica Mars, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23) has nabbed the lead role in Marvel's Jessica Jones series - which is set to air on Netflix after Marvel's Daredevil.Marvel hasn't made an official announcement, but a source has told Deadline that Ritter, who was one of the five actresses up for the role , got the part after finally beating out Warm Bodies' Teresa Palmer.Deadline is also stating that The Following‘s Mike Colter (currently starring in Halo: Nightfall) is almost a lock for Luke Cage, who will have his own Marvel/Netflix show after he's introduced as a supporting character on the Jessica Jones series.Marvel's Jessica Jones, based on Brian Michael Bendis's mature comic series Alias, focuses on a superhero suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, which leads to her hanging up her costume and opening her own detective agency.Jessica Jones is being written and executive produced by Melissa Rosenberg (Dexter, Twilight).

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