From The Comics Continuum…
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0403/23/index.htm
I wonder if Nicolas Cage will try to get the part? (He got his name from the character.) I don’t think Singleton would go for the “blackface” look, though.
“Sweet Christmas!”
If they can just get the Ray Park Iron Fist movie going, then maybe in the near future we can have a Heroes for Hire film!
I was just going to post the same thought! 
A Luke Cage film, then an Iron Fist film, then a crossover sequel. A good way to prolong a series, if you ask me.
Then, maybe they can do another sequel with She-Hulk sunbathing topless on top of an apartment building. Geez, I’m pathetic! 
Nicolas Cage could play D.W. (Luke’s pseudo-stoner “sidekick/comic relief/token hownkie”)
Of all the Marvel movies they could still make, they’re going with a relatively unknown and overall craptacular hero like Power Man? Bleh.
I want an Iron Man film, damn it. Or a good F4 or Captain America movie to forget the horrible ones that’re already out there.
Two words: Cuba Gooding
I keed, I keed
“Who was that?”
“I don’t know but my asshole is killing me!”
I doubt it will come close, but if Singleton’s film is as raunchy as Luke Cage has been of late in the comics, I’ll be pleasantly surprised. I’d love to see Marvel flirt with an NC-17 rating.
Aesiron, while I’d love to see more of the big-name heroes come to the big-screen (I’d love to see Iron Man, as well, in all his alcoholic glory), I feel the lesser-known characters are a great source for quality films. There’s much less backstory and fanbase expectations to screw up, and a lot of these B-heroes could use a movie makeover.
These films, if done well, could actually make some of these characters “cool” for once. Blade, for example, was virtually unknown to the general populace before his film debut. Now, he’s probably more recognizable to non-comics readers than some of the true comic icons. (I just don’t understand why Marvel hasn’t put out a new Blade series yet. Maybe they’re waiting until after Blade: Trinity.)
Anyhoo…
Iron Man - November 2005
Fantastic Four = July 5, 2005
No word on Captain America yet.
Marvel has tried a new Blade series after each movie so far. Both failed. I know I didn’t buy them, but enjoyed the movies. I suppose the audience for the movies aren’t the same audience for the comics, and in fact, may not even realize it’s based on a comic (if they don’t watch credits very closely.)
Really? I didn’t know that. Of course, there are no comic book shops where I live, so we probably wouldn’t have gotten a Blade series, what with Marvel’s comic shop/magazine shop segregation of books. (Those bastards!) I’m surprised I don’t recall reading about those Blade series in Wizard, though. (It’s the only comic/magazine I collect.)
Anyhoo…
Holy crap, that’s awesome. I didn’t expect to actually get them so to know we are is great. They’re making a Thor movie at some point too, aren’t they?
Considering our user names, I expect them to sell at least two tickets.
Sweet Christmas!
I always thought Luke Cage could benefit from a dark storyline where some criminal mastermind gets it in his head to kill off Cage no matter what… effectively testing the limits of Cage’s invulnerability and exploring the character’s “unkillable” potential.
I have an unfinished 4-issue script proposal tucked away somewhere where I took a stab at writing something like that… basically, a girl slips Cage a roofie in his drink at a club. He wakes up chained the bottom of a Olympic-sized pool that belongs to a drug dealer who has a mad-on for Cage because of some previous encounter. Cage is tortured by the dealer’s crew over a few days in a variety of noxious ways… and he doesn’t die. Fed up, the drug dealer has the pool filled in. The last we see of Cage, he’s laughing defiantly as two cement-mixers bury him under tons of concrete.
That’s issue #1. If you want to hear the rest of it, get Marvel Comics to buy my proposal.
Not that this plot-dropping hijack has ANYTHING to do with the movie… I just hope we see some treatment of Cage that goes beyond him being merely a bulletproof badass.
I’m a bit stuck figuring out who could PLAY Cage, tho… he’s so quintessentially blaxploitation era and mid-70’s music fixed in my mind that I can’t figure out what actor or rapper or pro athlete provides an adequate translation.
If only Ving Rhames was twenty years younger.
Depending on your definition of pro athlete and how much acting ability you want for the role, WWE’s Booker T would be perfect.
Cage is very killable unless they’ve amped up his powers lately. He has to breathe, eat and sleep. In one of the newer Heroes For Hire, I think he gets a lungful of poison gas and goes down for the count…I think they use an 'industrial" laser to pierce his skin and I believe armour piercing bullets would do exactly that.
So while he was a great 70’s-80’s character, unless they amp up his invulnerability, any street thug with a high powered rifle and the right ammo can end his existence in 2004.
Aesiron: http://wrestle.ru/photo/bookert/images/01.jpg
Booker T? Definitely has the right body build, if not necessarily the right “look” for the character. And from what I remember of Booker T – he’s not quite the level of range in acting I’d like in a movie treatment of the character. I mean, geez, he, Shaq and Tiny Lister, Jr. are pretty much interchangeable.
holmes: So… Cage is merely knocked unconscious by poison gas and it takes an industrial-strength laser just to pierce his outer skin. Might it not be dubious whether armor-piercing bullets could seriously hurt him at all? Maybe instead of penetrating through to his vital organs, his skin would absorb their impact and get stuck in his chest like slugs in bullet-proof vests. Interestingly, this might necessitate his needing to pull out bullets from time to time… It would make a better visual than “bullets bouncing harmlessly off his chest”.
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I remember that it was because of the effects of the gas, that the operation was necessary. I’m not sure if Iron Fist was effected too, but I remember that surgery was necessary to repair the damage caused by the gas. They were dying…but yes, a heavy duty laser was needed to open him up.
As far as the armour piercing ammo, goes, I think he was fighting War “something or other”, who was the first test subject of the experiment that gave Cage his steel hard skin. This guy ended up with skin has tough as concrete and even had a grey complexion. Anyway, he was unloading armor piercers and Cage was “concerned”…I believe he even wore a bullet-proof vest which they did penetrate and the shells still “hurt”.
Is Cage tough…? Sure, but he ain’t no Kal-el.
Well, I did preface my statement by saying it would be dependent on how much acting skill you wanted for the part. He still has the look though.
Aesiron: We’re basically in agreement. Booker T is a good choice as long as no real acting range or lengthy dramatic dialogue is required of him. But give him a good chunk of dialogue and ask for a Denzel Washington-type delivery, a la “Training Day,” and we’re talking COM-O’- DEE.
**holmes:**Oh. Really? Crap.
