Isaiah Mustafa could be Luke Cage after all
Remember back in July when Isaiah Mustafa was campaigning for the lead role in Marvel’s planned film adaptation of Luke Cage (here)? Well, Super Hero Hype was able to speak with Mustafa, and revealed that he’s met with Marvel about the role. “I’ve already had a meeting with Marvel. I talked to them and I told them that I was a gracious reader of their comics and that I wanted to be Luke Cage. So we’ll see where they take it,” he said. Of course, this doesn’t mean he will get the role, and a director has yet to even be hired (Although, John Singleton is a potential director).
Mustafa has never held back on his interest in playing the Hero For Hire, but why is he soo interested in the role? “I think all their [early black] characters were these Blaxploitation characters – these jokey, clownish characters – but now they’ve really developed the African-American characters. Luke Cage has a lot going on. He’s this man, he’s got all these powers and abilities and he can use them to save whatever major city, but instead of doing that he uses them to help Harlem. He wants to fix his neighborhood, and that’s what’s so admirable to me. Instead of leaving and going someplace bigger, he stays right where he needs to be and tries to do the best that they can,” he said. While Mustafa is very interested in the role, Marvel only reportedly has an “something in mind” for the character. However, we reported that Marvel Studios President Kevin Fieger somewhat hinted that many films are coming in the post-Avengers line-up (here).
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