Pictured: Mike Colter
CHARACTER · LUKE CAGE
Luke Cage
- Appears in
- Luke Cage (2016)
- Played by
- Mike Colter
10 archived facts 4 topics
Luke Cage is a character in the TV series Luke Cage (2016), played by Mike Colter.
10 Interesting Facts About Luke Cage
Interesting Facts (3)
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- #002
Every episode title in the first season of the Netflix series "Luke Cage" comes from a song by Gang Starr, the classic East Coast hip-hop duo who were a major influence on the East Coast rap scene from 1986 to 2003. Season 2 titles each take their name from a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth song.
- #003
Carl Weathers was set to play Luke Cage in a planned 1980s feature film. He later said, "Stan [Lee] and I met, and I met with someone else over at Universal at the time. It just was not to be at the time. I think it was a little ahead of its time, the concept of having a superhero who was black, you know?"
Production Story (2)
Easter Eggs & References (4)
- #006
Quentin Tarantino collected Luke Cage comics as a kid and, after directing Pulp Fiction (1994), wanted to adapt the character with Laurence Fishburne in the lead. He later recalled, "What actually dissuaded me from doing it... was my comic geek friends talked me out of it... Because I had an idea that Larry Fishburne would've been the perfect guy to play Luke Cage... But all my friends were like, 'No, no, listen, it's got to be Wesley Snipes.' And I go, 'Look, I like Wesley Snipes, but Larry Fishburne is practically Marlon Brando. I think Fish is the man.' And they're like, 'Yeah, but he'd have to get in shape in a big way. Snipes is that way already!' And I go, 'Fuck that! That's not that important! Fuck you, you ruined the whole damn thing!'" He made Jackie Brown (1997) instead, a tribute to the 1970s Blaxploitation films that shaped Luke Cage.
- #007
Just as Ghostface Killah (aka Tony Starks) cameoed in "Iron Man (2008)," Method Man's cameo in "Luke Cage" ties, if more loosely, to his comic-inspired alias "John Blaze." John Blaze was played by Nicolas Cage in "Ghost Rider (2007)" and "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)." Born Nicolas Coppola, Cage has said he took the stage name "Cage" from none other than the comic book character Luke Cage.
- #008
- #009
Contains a major spoiler — show
The Season 2 finale is full of nods to The Godfather (1972). D Dub calls Luke Cage "Luke Corleone." Most striking is the door closing on Misty Knight while Sugar leans in to talk to Luke, a shot-for-shot copy of Kay being shut out of Michael Corleone's business at the end of The Godfather.