Marvel Announces Showrunner and Premiere for LUKE CAGE
Marvel has announced that Cheo Hodari Coker will serve as executive producer and showrunner of their highly anticipated Luke Cage Netflix series. They also revealed that the series will premiere in 2016.
I'm sure many of you aren't familiar with with Coker's work, but he has worked on some solid shows, such as Ray Donovan, Almost Human, Southland, and NCIS: Los Angeles. Luke Cage seems like it would be a great project for him to work on.
Luke Cage will be played by Mike Colter (The Good Wife, American Horror Story: Coven), and I love that this character is finally going to be brought to life. He previously talked about his excitement for playing the role, and how the series would be geared towards a more adult audience — which is what I think Marvel wanted to do with all of their Netflix shows, which also include Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Iron Fist.
Here's the official press release from Marvel:
Netflix & Marvel Television announced today that Cheo Hodari Coker will serve as executive producer and showrunner of the anticipated series, Marvel’s Luke Cage. Coker is writing the first two episodes of the series that will premiere in 2016, everywhere that Netflix is available.
Most recently, Coker served as a co-executive producer on the second season of Ray Donovan, and prior to that was a supervising producer on the critically-acclaimed, fourth season of the drama SouthLAnd. Coker was a part of the SouthLAnd team that earned the show a 2012 Peabody Award. Coker also garnered a 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing for a Dramatic Series for his work on that show. Coker’s feature film credits include Fox Searchlight’s rap biopic Notorious. He authored the book Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of The Notorious B.I.G as well. Coker started his writing career in journalism and was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and contributed to VIBE, Rolling Stone, Essence, among other publications. He is a graduate of Stanford University.