Marvel Teases Return of “Luke Cage,” “Daredevil,” “Jessica Jones” & More on Disney+
The Marvel Cinematic and Television Universe is expanding on Disney+. Long before Disney+ existed, Marvel Studios had a bunch of strong, darker live-action series on Netflix. Those series— Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Daredevil, Iron Fist, The Punisher, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and The Defenders offered a different point of entry for Marvel fans, often focusing on ...
Costume Designer Stephanie Maslansky on Bringing Harlem Style to Luke Cage
In the first season of Netflix’s adaption of the Marvel superhero comic Luke Cage, Luke, née Carl Lucas (Mike Colter) emerges from a quiet Harlem existence to fight his neighborhood’s most nefarious criminals. With inhuman strength and unbreakable skin, Luke is in a unique position to go head-to-head, or body-to-bullets, with local gangster Cornell “Cottonmouth” ...
Harlem’s Queen Arrives in Luke Cage Season 2 Trailer
Marvel has dropped the second full-length trailer for Season 2 of Luke Cage, and Alfre Woodard’s Mariah Dillard is front and center. “Black women have always had superpowers, turning pain into progress,” Dillard says in voiceover. In this season, it looks like she will be doing exactly that (Season 1 spoilers to follow). With her ...
New Luke Cage Season 2 Clip Shows Off Super Strength, Speed, and Long Jumping Ability?
You know Luke Cage (Mike Colter) is tough. You know he’s got super strength. You know he’s got unbreakable skin. But did you know he’s also faster than Usain Bolt (his 40-yard dash time is 3.72)? And can beat the world record for the long jump by eleven feet? With these kind of all-around skills, Luke better ...
Celebrating New York On Screens Big & Small
Everyone knows that no city on earth is the setting for as many films as New York City. As the New York Times film critic A.O. Scott wrote back in late August, according to City Hall, there are around 120 film and television projects in production on any given day in the city, and there are about ...
The Incredible Luke Cage Soundtrack’s Vinyl Release is Today
If you've watched Marvel's Luke Cage on Netflix, one of the many things you probably loved was the soundtrack. As we wrote back in September, the musical supervisors on the show are none other than Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (both are members of A Tribe Called Quest), and they looked at each of the 13 ...
Luke Cage & the Appeal of Old-School Gravitas
We already have our calendars marked to binge watch the latest Marvel installment Luke Cage when it premieres next weekend. Luckily, Netflix knew we were having trouble waiting and released a new featurette with cast and crew interviews. In a market saturated with CGI battles, intergalactic foes, or criminally insane madmen, Luke Cage appears to ...
