Alfre Woodard Joins Marvel & Netflix's LUKE CAGE In A Villainous Role

Alfre Woodard Joins Marvel & Netflix's LUKE CAGE In A Villainous Role

Netflix's Luke Cage series has nabbed an Oscar nominee for a main role. Deadline reports that Alfre Woodard (12 Years A Slave, Mississippi Grind) has signed on to play a character named Minetta - but she might actually turn out to be an established Marvel villain!

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By MarkCassidy - Aug 21, 2015 09:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Luke Cage
Source: Deadline

Award winning actress Alfre Woodard has joined the cast of Marvel and Netflix's Luke Cage TV series alongside Mike Colter in the title role. According to Deadline she'll be playing Minetta, "a powerful woman in local politics who will have an impact on Luke Cage’s life." But they go on to say that they've heard she's actually playing a version of professional criminal and a drug dealer Black Mariah, who was a foe of both Cage and Iron Fist in the comics.

We also have what might be our first logline for the show: "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."

Luke Cage will debut after Jessica Jones, and Cheo Hodari Coker will serve as executive producer and showrunner. What do you guys think of this casting?
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slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 8/21/2015, 9:36 AM
Sweet... Luke Cage news for once!
NovaCorpsFan
NovaCorpsFan - 8/21/2015, 9:36 AM
Finally, more Luke Cage news
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 8/21/2015, 9:38 AM
I bet she's moving the Steel Serpent smack.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 8/21/2015, 9:41 AM
Bulldawg2014
Bulldawg2014 - 8/21/2015, 9:43 AM
Do like the confirmation that they are sticking to his origin story
DallasAvenger
DallasAvenger - 8/21/2015, 9:44 AM
Well she's a great actress so that's cool.
Deonox
Deonox - 8/21/2015, 9:45 AM
This is great, outside of being an Avenger and a few crossovers with other characters, I've never read any Luke Cage stories. Can't wait to see him in JJ though. This show will probably start shooting in a month or 2 and we might be getting an Iron Fist Casting soon
Bulldawg2014
Bulldawg2014 - 8/21/2015, 9:47 AM
@drdoom yeah they will have to approach this with a modern lens. The jive talking afro'd bell bottom wearing luke cage of the early years was definitely racist but modern interpretations seem to have figured it out pretty well.
6of13
6of13 - 8/21/2015, 9:51 AM
Fantastic actress.
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 8/21/2015, 9:51 AM
They should have a character named @Pasto. He's Luke Cage's boyfriend in jail and his superpowers are that he doesn't have a gag reflex and he can breathe through his ears.
AsgardianHobo
AsgardianHobo - 8/21/2015, 9:52 AM
Never thought we would get a Luke Cage series. Soooo pumped for this
freebirdink843
freebirdink843 - 8/21/2015, 9:52 AM
If I ran this shit I would use the prison to set up other characters with powers that aren't inhumans. How cool would it be to see taskmaster escape as well(explains his power). I want tasky!!! You could set him up as a baddie that keeps showing up in shows and movies. Then in a fewyears have him switch sides, be marvels "wolverine" anti hero and run the avengers academy .

Make it happen!!!!
6of13
6of13 - 8/21/2015, 9:55 AM
Ghost Rider would fit very well in the Netflix/Marvel series.
sKeemAn
sKeemAn - 8/21/2015, 9:56 AM
She's an awesome actress, she will be awesome in her role.
Brainiac13
Brainiac13 - 8/21/2015, 9:56 AM
Out of all the new Netflix shows....JJ is gonna surprise us..
AgeofApocalypse
AgeofApocalypse - 8/21/2015, 9:59 AM
Nice! Good to hear some Cage news.
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 8/21/2015, 10:00 AM
@doopie

The best part of that is that Cage flew all the way to Latveria and confronted Doom over $200.
freebirdink843
freebirdink843 - 8/21/2015, 10:02 AM
I would save ghost rider for movie as well. Too much CGI flames. Plus he need to be done right. He's pretty much as strong as the hulk, I can see him tying to doc strange.
marvelstudios
marvelstudios - 8/21/2015, 10:03 AM
Nice to hear some Netflix news.

Now give us a JJ trailer.
DallasAvenger
DallasAvenger - 8/21/2015, 10:05 AM
Yeah, seriously Ghost Rider would look terrible on the Netflix budget, and even then they couldn't even attempt to do the wide ranging characters and locales I would like to see. Let's leave Netflix to the street heroes, there is so much to explore and only the very surface as been touched as of now. The Defenders is going to be something special.
CherryBomb
CherryBomb - 8/21/2015, 10:09 AM
Awesome!
She's a phenomenal actress, she's going to be great as the female Kingpin type role.
Love her playing evil characters
Reasonnnn
Reasonnnn - 8/21/2015, 10:11 AM
@CherryBomb Preach!

Woodard is a nice get for Marvel!
Reasonnnn
Reasonnnn - 8/21/2015, 10:14 AM
@Brainiac13 Agreed. It's going to be so [frick]ed up psychologically and potentially physically; Tennant and Ritter are going to be magical.
SnapperCarr
SnapperCarr - 8/21/2015, 10:25 AM
I hope Willis Stryker will be the main antagonist.

And he'll no to Dan Stevens as Iron Fist! !!
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