Alfre Woodard Cast Opposite Mike Colter In Marvel’s ‘Luke Cage’ For NetflixPosted by Wilson Morales
Source: Deadline
Deadline is reporting that Alfe Woodard has been cast in Netflix & Marvel Television’s anticipated series, “Marvel’s Luke Cage.”
The site states that Woodard will play a lead character listed on the breakdown as Minetta, a powerful woman in local politics who will have an impact on Luke Cage’s life. It’s assumed that the character is “a version of Marvel villain Black Mariah, a nemesis to Luke Cage as well as Iron Fist.
In the comics, she was a drug racketeering 400 lbs. woman who crossed paths with Luke Cage. Cage went toe-to-toe with Mariah, and shutdown her operation. She no doubt got her name from the alias of an ambulance, symbolizing the way she ran her operations
In Luke Cage, Mike Colter, who will be first introduced in the second Marvel series for Netflix, A.K.A. Jessica Jones, plays Cage, a wrongly accused man who, granted superstrength by a sabotaged experiment, escapes prison to become a superhero for hire. Colter will be showcased in 6 or 7 episodes of the Jessica Jones show before leading his own Netflix series, Luke Cage.
Cheo Hodari Coker will serve as executive producer and showrunner of “Marvel’s Luke Cage.” Woodard recently co-starred on NBC’s State Of Affairs and recurred on TNT’s The Last Ship. On the big screen, she will next appear opposite Ryan Gosling in “Mississippi Grind.”
“Luke Cage” is the third series in Marvel’s four-series package at Netflix after “Jessica Jones” and “Marvel’s Daredevil.” The last series will be “Iron Fist,” with all four leading into a “Defenders” mini-series.
