Mike colter talks ''musicality'' in luke cage (among other things)

In a interview with the Los Angeles Times, Mike Colter, Marvel's Luke Cage, talked about what fans can expect from his upcoming Netflix series and how its musical "soul" will set it apart from its predecessors.

"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," Colter said. "'Luke Cage' is going to define itself in that way, and it's going to define itself in the locations that we're doing."

In terms of locations, Colter mentioned the series will began with Luke uptown sometime in the aftermath of Jessica Jones's season finale before going forward several months to Cage in Harlem.


The choice of setting will heavily influence the tone and sound of the series with Colter describing the music they're going for: "I guess this is an overused word, but urban. It will be urban, it will be soulful, and it will be a stark contrast to the music you heard for the first two prior series. We are in Harlem, so you want to feel like you are around that kind of culture. Harlem has a long, rich culture of music and we want to pay homage to that."

Colter was mum on whether or not fans will get to see Luke in his iconic yellow shirt and boots, but hinted that they could turn up in an unexpected 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," he said. "That being said, it's going to be a unique way of delivering it. But they're going to get what they want eventually."

As the MCU's first black superhero, one who was wrongfully convicted in the comics at that, Colter says the show will "subtly" tie into topical themes like police brutality and stereotyping, but that, "it's also about redemption. He's a renaissance man, he's trying to better himself and there's something to be said about someone who's always trying to make themselves better, trying to change. That's what life is about, to me, anyway. That's what life seems to be about for Luke Cage."

Marvel's Luke Cage will be debuting some time in 2016.