While promoting "Dreamgirls" on Saturday, Jamie Foxx told the IESB he would not be starring as Luke Cage in the long-gestating Marvel Comics film adaptation: "I don't think [it will happen]," the actor said.
Luke Cage, born Carl Lucas and once called Power Man, is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero. Created by writer Archie Goodwin and artist John Romita, Sr., he first appeared in Luke Cage, Hero for Hire #1 (June 1972).
A streetwise youth, Cage was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. He underwent an experimental procedure that granted him titanium-hard skin and superhuman strength. Cleared of his crime, he became a “hero for hire,” although, as a plot device, Cage was always forced by conscience not to take any money for his deeds. Later, he formed a business partnership with the martial arts hero known as Iron Fist. Through the groundbreaking series Power Man & Iron Fist, the two became one of the better-known superhero duos of the 1980s..