Netflix’s Luke Cage: Mike Colter talks about location and honoring the comic

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After Daredevil and Jessica Jones, it’s time for a new Marvel and Netflix production to take over. Luke Cage was introduced in Jessica Jones this November and we will see him again in his solo upcoming series. We already heard that each of the four installments (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist) will link but they will stand on their own.

Recently, Luke Cage star, Mike Colter  sat down with the Los Angeles Times and talked about the upcoming Netflix and Marvel series. He revealed some interesting details.

"Luke Cage is going to have soul, it's going to have intensity, it's going to have dark parts to it. I think what's going to make it unique is also the musicality of it. There's going to be a musical taste that you found a little bit in Jessica. It defines itself through sound that you can feel when you're watching the scenes, whether it's something that's actually a song that they're playing or actually just the pulse of the music that they choose thematically. Luke Cage is going to define itself in that way, and it's going to define itself in the locations that we're doing. It's no secret that you're going to find Luke Cage uptown after the [Jessica Jones] series is over, so the things that happen to him and Jessica will affect him. And then when you find him months later in Harlem, you'll see him in a different setting. That's going to be a setting that's surrounded with different characters and different light all unto itself."

Will Luke Cage wear his iconic yellow shirt?

With or without the yellow shirt, Luke Cage will honor the comics

With or without the yellow shirt, Luke Cage will honor the comics

Colter made it clear that Luke Cage will move on with his life from Hell’s Kitchen to Harlem, and when asked if we’ll see him in the iconic yellow shirt he gave an unclear answer.

"Jessica is her series. Anything that's primarily Luke Cage we want to save for Luke Cage's series. I'm not saying that you're going to see the yellow shirt, but if you're going to see it, it'll be in Luke Cage's series."

So we are not sure about the yellow shirt, but the actor has firmly stated that the series will honor the original source as much as possible. We know that many fans wanted to see Kilgrave turn purple, and he didn’t, yet we loved it. We’re going to get what we want, eventually, Colter said.

"I'll say it this way. The writers have been very clever and very on point with the way they allowed this to be grounded in realism [while] paying homage to the comic book and what comic book fans know to be their world. We're trying to bring it to the screen. I think we're going to satisfy everyone. We're not going to give them exactly what they want, but I think everyone will be ecstatic about what we're willing to do for them. We know what side our bread is buttered on. To try and not give the fans what they want would be a mistake;that being said, it's going to be a unique way of delivering it. But they're going to get what they want eventually."

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