\u201cOur show is different because in our construction it\u2019s a western,\u201d he continues. \u201cLuke Cage<\/strong><\/em> is a hip-hop western because it\u2019s about a man with a mysterious past who would rather stay hidden; a man who moves to a new section of town, which has deteriorated over time. Instead of a saloon, we have a club named Harlem\u2019s Paradise. And inside this \u2018saloon\u2019 there is another strong man who is controlling vice and \u2013 to some extent \u2013 has an amount of control in law enforcement [this would be Mahershala Ali\u2019s crime lord Cornell \u2018Cottonmouth\u2019 Stokes], so he gets away with everything.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUltimately, when Luke Cage comes to town and he doesn\u2019t like how things are going, he intervenes \u2013 even though he doesn\u2019t want to,\u201d Coker adds. \u201cAnd that\u2019s when things begin to happen. As things begin to happen, it puts Luke into a showdown with the central figure from the saloon \u2013 or in our case, Harlem\u2019s hottest nightclub.\u201d<\/p>\n Marvel is well-known for it\u2019s top-secret approach, and that\u2019s something Mike Colter came to learn first-hand when he was offered the role of the iconic superhero. \u201cI basically had to take a leap of faith and trust [Marvel\u2019s head of television] Jeph Loeb and [Jessica Jones<\/strong><\/em> showrunner] Melissa Rosenberg, because they pitched the character of Luke Cage to me, but they didn\u2019t have much to show me.<\/p>\n “They told me about the overall arc of this character. They told me where he was going to go and who he was as a character, but there wasn\u2019t a lot to pull from the pages of the script, because they only had scripts from two episodes of Jessica Jones<\/strong><\/em> that they were able to share at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI signed on for a project that was going to take me onto my own series; a series that didn\u2019t even have a showrunner at the time, so there were a lot of unknowns,\u201d Colter continues. \u201cBut I had a gut feeling that this character would be someone that I could play and have fun with. I also felt like this character would have a journey that I was interested to discover.\u201d<\/p>\n Colter wasn\u2019t the only person kept in the dark about the series; many of the auditioning actors weren\u2019t informed that they were trying out for a Marvel television series. \u201cI had no idea it was Marvel,\u201d explains Simone Missick, who plays Misty Knight; a character with a rich back story in the comics. \u201cI didn\u2019t know that this character was a superhero and that her name was Misty; it was all shrouded in secrecy. They said the character\u2019s name was Missy and the project was titled Tiara, which I\u2019ve since discovered is a reference to Luke Cage when he goes through his transformation [in the comics]. At that point, he\u2019s wearing a little crown; a tiara.\u201d<\/p>\n While much is still being kept under wraps, Colter is happy to share the themes of the first season. \u201cLuke Cage<\/strong><\/em> is about family and it\u2019s about love,\u201d the actor explains. \u201cIt\u2019s about regret, romance and inner struggle. It\u2019s about growing up, manhood and crime, and it\u2019s also about karma. It\u2019s about so many things. The themes don\u2019t go in any one direction and stay there. We are not on one track; we are all over the place, but in a really good way.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLike Cheo said, it\u2019s a hip-hop western,\u201d Colter concludes. \u201cBut there\u2019s also a lot of misdirection from the trailer. Don\u2019t think that because the trailer comes out, everybody is going to know what the show is all about. There\u2019s very, very good marketing in play here! Ultimately, we want you to show up and then we will surprise you. We\u2019ll hook you in.\u201d<\/p>\n Luke Cage<\/em> will air worldwide on Netflix from 30 September 2016. You can download The 25 Greatest Marvel Comics<\/a> digital edition from GreatDigitalMags.com now. For more news about the biggest movies, pick up the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/a> Creator Cheo Hodari Coker and the cast of Luke Cage on what to expect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":91091,"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":[1718,7,3,207],"tags":[3505],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/luke-cage-24.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91090"}],"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=91090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"marvel-luke-cage-netflix-images\"](\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/marvel-luke-cage-netflix-images.jpg\")
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