“I need Mike to be in a television show”. In discussing several aspects about the show – which joins Marvel’s Daredevil and the Colter-featuring Marvel’s Jessica Jones as a building-block towards the eventual Defenders crossover series – talk turned to the series’ heavily musical bent, which is built into Luke Cage’s DNA; in addition to the on-screen performances, the season was scored by LA multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge and A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad – a fact about which Coker is clearly proud.
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Because of some of the issues that the series addresses, Coker argues that it’s not just for comic book fans.
“[The comic] Luke Cage came out in 1972, which was the year I was born and also within the age of Shaft and Super Fly”, says Coker. “The character was always Marvel Universe’s reaction to Blaxploitation”. “Luke Cage is our latest effort”.
Luke Cage might not be alone in Harlem. A compelling hero and compelling villains. Watch the Los Angeles Times’ full interview with Coker and Colter below, as well as the trailer for the show’s first season, as premiered at the recent San Diego Comic-Con.
While viewers met Luke in Jessica Jones, the second of four of Marvel’s Netflix slate, Luke Cage is going to dive deeper into who this superstrong, bulletproof man really is. “We have seen some characters that have appeared and crossed over, most notably is Rosario Dawson, who continues the character of Claire Temple”, Loeb said.
“Melissa Rosenberg, [who created Jessica Jones], provided such a great introduction for the character and it wasn’t a question of shaking it up it up, says Coker”. This is like, when Luke was off camera, what was Luke doing? What’s so exciting for us about this is we now get 13 hours of seeing what his world is and where it goes. “Anything is possible”, Loeb said. At the end of the day, that’s really up to Netflix in terms of how many more stories are we going to get to tell? Meaning, it didn’t feel like an odd fit at all for Luke Cage. If someone guest stars, the aim was, Loeb stressed, “You actually see them interact with each other”. No one else was confirmed as of yet, but Loeb stressed that while Easter eggs are fun, he didn’t want them to ever be there for their own sake or have a character appear without any significance, saying you wouldn’t see, “Luke Cage gets into a cab as Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson get out of a cab”.
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“Luke Cage” premieres on Netflix on September 30.
