You first got to see Luke Cage in JESSICA JONES and while DAREDEVIL Season 2 is next up on the docket, to premiere on Netflix in the second quarter of 2016, LUKE CAGE is coming to the streaming service in the fourth quarter of 2016.
For the first time, since he was promoting JESSICA JONES, actor Mike Colter spoke to LATimes about his turn at leading his own Netflix and Marvel series.
“Luke Cage is going to have soul, it's going to have intensity, it's going to have dark parts to it. I think what's going to make it unique is also the musicality of it. There's going to be a musical taste that you found a little bit in Jessica. It defines itself through sound that you can feel when you're watching the scenes, whether it's something that's actually a song that they're playing or actually just the pulse of the music that they choose thematically. Luke Cage is going to define itself in that way, and it's going to define itself in the locations that we're doing. It's no secret that you're going to find Luke Cage uptown after the [Jessica Jones] series is over, so the things that happen to him and Jessica will affect him. And then when you find him months later in Harlem, you'll see him in a different setting. That's going to be a setting that's surrounded with different characters and different light all unto itself.”
Will fans see Luke Cage in his familiar yellow shirt from the comics? Or any other comic familiar looks?
"Anything that's primarily 'Luke Cage' we want to save for Luke Cage's series. I'm not saying that you're going to see the yellow shirt, but if you're going to see it, it'll be in Luke Cage's series.
"I'll say it this way. The writers have been very clever and very on point with the way they allowed this to be grounded in realism [while] paying homage to the comic book and what comic book fans know to be their world. We're trying to bring it to the screen. I think we're going to satisfy everyone. We're not going to give them exactly what they want, but I think everyone will be ecstatic about what we're willing to do for them. We know what side our bread is buttered on. To try and not give the fans what they want would be a mistake;, that being said, it's going to be a unique way of delivering it. But they're going to get what they want eventually."
This is only a snippet of all the things Colter talked about for LUKE CAGE and you can read more about the music of the series and much, much more in LATimes interview by clicking right here.
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