Director Singleton Talks Luke Cage
Who in Hollywood has what it takes to be a Hero for Hire and a Power Man?
Director John Singleton told the Chicago Sun-Times he’s unsure who’ll he’ll cast in the lead role of his Luke Cage movie.
How about Tyrese, who is in many of his features? "I've read that a lot of people are doing the role, but the truth is I don't even know who is doing it yet," he said. "Who will play Luke? I need a guy in his 20s who is huge -- and I'm talking about his body. He needs to be a big guy. It's an emotional role, too."
So who is Luke Cage?, the paper asked
"First of all, do you know the actor Nic Cage?" Singleton asks. "He was Nic Coppola until he changed his name to Nic Cage because Luke Cage was one of his favorite characters.
"He's a guy wrongly accused of a crime," Singleton says. "Luke is put in prison, where they do experiments on him. But he breaks out of prison with his bare hands and swims across the river to New York." Nah, he's not like Aquaman, the paper quipped. "Luke becomes a hero for hire. You have to pay him to do the work."