{"id":68733,"date":"2014-11-21T09:03:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T09:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=68733"},"modified":"2014-11-21T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T09:04:13","slug":"marvels-luke-cage-casting-details-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/marvels-luke-cage-casting-details-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel’s Luke Cage casting details revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Daredevil<\/a>
Daredevil and Luke Cage hanging out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Hot on the heels of the Jessica Jones<\/strong><\/em> casting<\/a>, and according to Deadline<\/em><\/a> Marvel have lined up three possible actors to take on the role of the super-strong, steel-skinned defender of the streets Luke Cage<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cage is set to appear in six or seven episodes of Jessica Jones<\/strong><\/em> before getting his own show and then appearing in Marvel’s Defenders<\/strong> <\/em>team-up, alongside Daredevil<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>and Iron Fist<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The three in the running for Marvel’s street-level beefcake are:<\/p>\n

1. Divergent’s Cleo Anthony is Luke Cage?<\/h3>\n

\"Luek<\/a><\/p>\n

2. The Following and The Good Wife’s Mike Colter is Luke Cage?<\/h3>\n

\"Luke<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Crisis and House Of Payne’s Lance Gross is Luke Cage?  
\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"Luke<\/a><\/p>\n

Who’d be your pick for the Luke Cage role? Leave a comment and let us know!<\/p>\n

Marvel’s Netflix takeover will begin with Daredevil<\/em> in 2015. You can buy Daredevil: Born Again<\/em> by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli for £10.34 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a> For more on the comics that have inspired the show, pick up our 100 All-Time Greatest Comics bookazine now!<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check out the 3 actors in the running for the Marvel’s Luke Cage Netflix TV show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":68734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[1824,3497,3505],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Luek-Cage-Netflix.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}