First Look at David Tennant and Mike Colter in Marvel’s A.K.A. JESSICA JONES

As fans continue to devour “Marvel’s Daredevil” on Netflix, production continues on the second “Defenders” series with “Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones.” A bunch of sites have managed to collect many images from the filming of the series which give us our first reveal at former Doctor Who David Tennant as the villain Kilgrave, AKA The Purple Man. In addition, images of Mike Colter as Luke Cage have also debuted online and you can check them all out below.

Taking place after a tragic ending to her short-lived Super Hero stint, the series follows Jessica Jones (“Breaking Bad” and “Don’t Trust the B- in Apt. 23″ star Krysten Ritter) as she rebuilds her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City.

Also starring on the show are the previously-announced David Tennant as Kilgrave, Rachael Taylor as Patsy Walker, Mike Colter as Luke Cage, Carrie-Ann Moss as Harper, Eka Danville as Malcolm, Erin Moriarty as Hope, and Will Traval as a NYPD cop.

Melissa Rosenberg (“Dexter”) serves as executive producer and showrunner of the series. “Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones” is set to premiere on Netflix later this year.

Jessica Jones Set

Source: SpoilerTV

Cheo Hodari Coker Is MARVEL’S LUKE CAGE Showrunner

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.

It was previously announced that Mike Colter (“The Good Wife,” “American Horror Story: Coven”) will play the charismatic lead character, Luke Cage, in the series.

“Marvel’s Luke Cage” is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios for Netflix.

Marvel’s Luke Cage is the third in a series of Netflix shows that Marvel TV is developing, and will be followed by Marvel’s Iron Fist (presumably premiering in the latter half of 2016), and then the team-up miniseries Marvel’s The Defenders, which will bring together the characters from all of the Netflix shows into one Avengers-style story arc.

Source: Marvel.com

Mike Colter Talks LUKE CAGE And His Link With The MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

Promoting the upcoming home video release of Halo: Nightfall, actor Mike Colter shared a few details on his upcoming turn as the Marvel street-level hero Luke Cage in Netflix’s Jessica Jones. According to Colter, Cage has super strength and bulletproof skin just like he does in the pages of Marvel Comics but in Jessica Jones, Cage operates in secrecy.  “Marvel actually gives you a special training class in how not to say too much in interviews [laughs]. We’re in the middle of shooting AKA Jessica Jones and Luke Cage is a very interesting character who just happens to have super strength and unbreakable skin. He’s a neighborhood hero, very much linked to New York and Jessica Jones. It’s all part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but Luke Cage is a darker, grittier, more tangible character than Iron Man or Thor. He likes to keep things close to his chest, operate on the hush-hush. He has these abilities but he’s not sure how and when to use them. He’s a very nuanced character.”

Colter will be seen as Luke Cage in Netflix’s 13-episode Marvel-Netflix miniseries, Jessica Jones, which stars Krysten Ritter as the titular character Filming is currently underway and the series is expected to stream in late-2015/early-2016.

Source: The List

Mike Colter Talks Playing Marvel’s LUKE CAGE

While promoting the DVD/Blu-ray release of Halo: Nightfall, actor Mike Colter spoke to IGN about playing Luke Cage in this year’s Netflix series “Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones” and then his own solo show.

“It’s geared towards an adult audience, which is something that will be different from the Marvel Cinematic Universe that you’ve seen before on the big screen,” says Colter. “I’m excited about playing the character because I’ve read the comic books. They’re very detailed, gritty; the world they’ve written in the comic books is very clear. Marvel does a fantastic job about bringing human stories – because you’re telling big stories with a heart at the center of it – and that’s what connects all of the characters to our audience members.”

That grittiness will carry into all four New York-centric series Netflix and Marvel Entertainment have planned, starting with this April’s “Daredevil,” through “Jessica Jones,” “Iron Fist” and “Luke Cage,” all leading into the eventual team-up show “The Defenders.” Colter is excited about the possibilities in playing the hero with unbreakable skin and superhuman strength, who in the comic books eventually forms a duo with Iron Fist and marries Jessica Jones.

“What I’m most excited about is touching on what makes him tick,” Colter says. “It feels good to get a character that has such a story, background, and history. And when I look at the scripts, I’m really pleased with it because it’s a slow-burn; there’s nothing happening really fast that gets ahead of itself. We have a more gritty, focused story on our heroes and characters that live in New York City.”

From the character’s debut in 1972’s “Luke Cage, Hero for Hire” he was designed to emulate the Blaxploitation films of the era, but Colter doesn’t see race as playing a huge part in his interpretation.

“I’m a black male who’s playing a character who has historically been black,” he declares. “The approach with the character for me is more about the human qualities and the things that make Luke Cage tick. And the writers have to then decide to bring in the race of the character, if there’s an angle there. But I don’t look at it as something I have to prep differently for, because I am what I am and I approach the characters as they have to then be played by me, Mike Colter – the actor who happens to be black. It’s more of an aside, rather than something I take on by the horns. It doesn’t really factor for me at all.”

Source: IGN

NETFLIX UPDATES: Daredevil. A.K.A. Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, And The Defenders

We have some new information on Marvel’s upcoming live-action television series: Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Defenders.

Netflix has updated their queue with information for the Marvel series: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Defenders.

It’s basically just general information and a placeholder, but it is stated that Jessica Jones will be released some time this year.

Charlie Cox is playing Daredevil, Krysten Ritter is playing Jessica Jones and Mike Colter is playing Luke Cage. Iron Fist has yet to be announced.

If anything, it is at least pretty cool to see the series listed.

Daredevil: “Marvel’s Daredevil” is a live action series that follows the journey of attorney Matt Murdock, who in a tragic accident was blinded as a boy but imbued with extraordinary senses. Murdock sets up practice in his old neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, New York where he now fights against injustice as a respected lawyer by day and masked vigilante at night. Coming April 10

A.K.A. Jessica Jones: Working as a private investigator in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, a troubled ex-superhero’s past comes back to haunt her in the live-action series, “Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones.” Coming 2015

Luke Cage: In this Marvel live-action series, a street-fighting ex-con battles crime in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen as the superhero Luke Cage. Coming soon

Iron Fist: “Marvel’s Iron Fist” follows superhero and martial arts master Danny Rand in the upcoming live-action series. Coming soon

The Defenders: “Marvel’s The Defenders” brings together Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage in an epic superhero team-up in New York City. Coming soon

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MARVEL/NETFLIX: Each Marvel Netflix Series Is Eligible For Multiple Seasons

Speaking at The Winter 2015 TCA’s, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos shared a few new details. Here’s a rundown of what he told reporters:

-Each Marvel Netflix series will be roughly one year apart; with the amount of time between each series ranging from 8 to 15 months. “We’re not trying to hit a fall programming schedule or hit a grid number.  We want to give them enough room and enough time to make a great show. I don’t want to set up a rigid time table.”

– The most intriguing news emerging would be the fact that each of the Marvel Netflix series are eeligiblefor additional seasons.  “They’re all eligible to go into multiple seasons for sure, and [we] contemplate that they will.”

-As far as what factors go into deciding what and how many of the series go into a second season, Sarandos stated that it depends on a number of factors. “Definitely in how well we are addressing both the Marvel fanbase but also the broader fanbase who may or may not ever get into one of these series because of their own preconceived notions. One thing we have [is] a really great history of [combining] the personalized merchandising and the subscription model that allows people to be a little more adventurous about what they watch. We may find that an audience way broader than the typical Marvel audience will try and fall in love with these shows and with the Marvel brand, and it will be universe-expanding for Marvel too.”

Unlike the current crop of superhero shows on basic ttelevision Netflix doesn’t release their viewership numbers meaning that it will be a little more difficult to gauge whether Daredevil and co. are successful from a viewership standpoint.  Still, with not a lot of details currently available on the Daredevil series and its debut a mere 3 months away, comic book fans are certainly interested in seeing what a Marvel/Netflix collaboration can produce.

Daredevil will premiere on Netflix on April 10.

MARVEL/NETFLIX: Mike Colter to Star as Luke Cage in Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones

Marvel and Netflix are proud to announce that Mike Colter will star as Luke Cage in “Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones,” an all-new 13-episode series premiering on Netflix in 2015 following “Marvel’s Daredevil.”

During the course of an investigation in New York City, private investigator Jessica Jones encounters the enigmatic Luke Cage – a man whose past has secrets that will dramatically alter Jessica in ways she could never have imagined.

Colter will star opposite Krysten Ritter, who plays the title role in “Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones.”

“Mike embodies the strength, edge and depth of Luke Cage,” said Executive Producer/Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg. “We’re excited to have him bring this iconic Marvel character to life.”

“Fans have longed to see Luke Cage brought and in Mike we’ve found the perfect actor,” said Jeph Loeb, Executive Producer/Marvel’s Head of Television. “Viewers will get to meet Luke Cage in ‘Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones,’ and experience why he is such an important super hero in the Marvel mythos.”

Colter is currently starring in the PlayStation Network’s original series “Halo: Nightfall” as Jameson Locke. He has appeared in a number of critically-acclaimed television series, including “The Good Wife” and “American Horror Story: Coven.”

After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City.

“Marvel’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones” is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios for Netflix.