{"id":78898,"date":"2015-08-24T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T09:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=78898"},"modified":"2015-08-24T10:10:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T09:10:01","slug":"has-the-luke-cage-netflix-series-cast-its-big-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/has-the-luke-cage-netflix-series-cast-its-big-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the Luke Cage Netflix series cast its big bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_78903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78903\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Luke-Cage-Alfre-Woodard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-78903 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Luke-Cage-Alfre-Woodard.jpg\" alt=\"Luke Cage Alfre Woodard\" width=\"616\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Luke-Cage-Alfre-Woodard.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Luke-Cage-Alfre-Woodard-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Luke-Cage-Alfre-Woodard-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alfre Woodard has joined the cast of Luke Cage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Netflix&#8217;s\u00a0Marvel machine is showing\u00a0no sign of slowing down. With a second season of <em><strong>Daredevil<\/strong><\/em> confirmed and <em><strong>Jessica Jones<\/strong><\/em> not too far away, we&#8217;re now starting to get casting news from follow-up series <em><strong>Luke Cage<\/strong><\/em>, with the news that Alfre WooDard is on board for a role, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/08\/marvel-luke-cage-alfre-woodard-cast-mariah-netflix-1201502959\/\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The character she is officially playing is known in the script as Minetta, a powerful local politician, but according to the story, this is actually a version of the Marvel comic-book villain known as Black Mariah, a crime lord and drugs boss who has previously tangled with both Cage and fellow hero (and future Netflix series recipient) Iron Fist.<\/p>\n<p>Recognisable from a number of genre outings (such as <em><strong>Star Trek: First Contact<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>True Blood<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>K-Pax<\/strong><\/em>), Woodard definitely seems like a solid choice for the role. Considering that Cage&#8217;s comic-book back story isn&#8217;t exactly rich with memorable villains, it&#8217;s handy for the show that it has such a strong character actress involved.<\/p>\n<p>She joins Cage actor Mike Colter in the main cast, which has Cheo Hodari Coker (<em><strong>Southland<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Almost Human<\/strong><\/em>) attached as showrunner.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Luke Cage<\/em> will air on Netflix in 2016.\u00a0<strong><strong>For more about the comics that inspired the series,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/100-all-time-greatest-comics-revised-edition.html\">pick up the 100 All-Time Greatest Comics: Revised Edition bookazine now.<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Star Trek and True Blood star has been added to the cast of Luke Cage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":78904,"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":[3505],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Luke-Cage.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78898"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}