Terry Crews Honored to Play Luke Cage

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Terry Crews Honored to Play Luke Cage

The Expendables 3 star Terry Crews has said that he would be “honored” to play Marvel’s Luke Cage in the upcoming Netflix series.

CelebNMusic247.com has learned that The Expendables 3 star was previously linked to a movie version of the comic book series, but now Luke Cage will form part of a new roster of online-only series that Marvel is developing with Netflix.

The new Marvel online series will kick off its launch in 2015, with the first hero being Daredevil. As for Luke Cage, his series will follow.

The Expendables 3 star Crews said that he would be “privileged” to star in the new Netflix adaptation.

Luke Cage will form part of a new roster of online-only series that Marvel is developing with Netflix. The first – Daredevil – is expected to launch in 2015.

Crews also reveals how the success of his current show – Fox sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine – freaked him out “in a good way” in the DS video interview.

The Expendables 3 opens in cinemas on August 15 in the US.

Here’s some history on Luke Cage:

Luke_Cage,_Hero_for_Hire_Vol_1_1Luke Cage was created in 1972 in his first comicbook Hero For Hire #1created by Archie Goodwin and John Romita, Sr. and edited by Stan Lee. Luke’s hero came shortly after Blaxploitation films emerged as a popular new genre. His storyline was based in a grungier, more crime-dominated New York City than that inhabited by other Marvel superheroes of the time. By issue #17 Luke’s series was retitled to Power Man, though, as the Blaxploitation genre’s popularity faded, Cage became unable to support his own series and was paired with another superhero whose popularity was based on a declining film genre, the martial arts hero Iron Fist.  The series lasted up til #50 in 1978 when the cover switch once again to save the two characters renaming the series Power Man and Iron Fist.

The change in name kept the two superheros alive for another eight years until the series’s cancellation with issue #125 as writer, James Owsley, attempted to shed Cage’s Blaxploitation roots by giving him a larger vocabulary and reducing usage of his catchphrase, “Sweet Christmas!”

During his time, Luke Cage was featured in Brian Michael Bendis-written series Alias, Secret War, The Pulse, Daredevil, and New Avengers.

Since that time, Cage resurfaced on the comicbook map as Marvel’s popularity grew thanks to the live action films and his resurgence in Thunderbolts, starting with issue #144 in 2010. Cage ended up leading the team  when the title transitioned into Dark Avengers beginning with issue #175.  Cage reappeared as a regular character in the second volume of New Avengers series.

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