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Luke Cage-- Marvel/Netflix

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With Jessica Jones behind us, it's time to look ahead to the next Marvel/Netflix collaboration on the road to The Defenders-- Luke Cage, which is expected to drop in fall 2016.

The official description from Marvel--

When a sabotaged experiment gives him super strength and unbreakable skin, Luke Cage becomes a fugitive attempting to rebuild his life in Harlem, and must soon confront his past and fight a battle for the heart of his city.
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Luke Cage star Mike Colter confirmed that the show takes place after Jessica Jones...

I can tell you what they’ve allowed me to, which is basically Luke Cage will take place a few months after Jessica Jones. So in real time, if you watch Jessica Jones, you’ll find [at the end] Luke Cage uptown in Harlem, working, trying to make ends meet.
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Colter also told comicbook.com...
He’s tending bar, he’s bouncing around. And for good reason; he’s a fugitive. He has some skeletons in his closet. He’s trying to basically stay off the radar. The people he hangs out with, though, are in need. Ultimately, he’d rather be alone, but with the way he’s equipped he does step up. That’s what it’s about, it’s about finding that inner feeling to make you want to take action.
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We already know from Jessica Jones that Colter will kill it as Cage. Other Marvel characters debuting in Luke Cage include...

Simone Missick as Misty Knight.
Alfre Woodard as Mariah Dillard, known in the comics as "Black Mariah".
Mahershala Ali as Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes.

Also appearing will be Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple. Given that they have cast Claire's mother in Luke Cage, I assume that we will get to know Claire a little better in Luke Cage than we did in either DD or JJ.

The showrunner is Cheo Hodari Coker, whose credits include Homeland, NCIS: Los Angeles and Almost Human, among others.
 
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I'm wondering if Jessica will guest star in this, to provide symmetry with Luke guesting in her show.

I'm also wondering about the setting and fiction vs. reality. Daredevil is set in a fictionalized Hell's Kitchen that's still a run-down hotbed of crime, unlike the highly gentrified area it's become now. The MCU Daredevil reconciled that by establishing that the Battle of New York in The Avengers had trashed much of the city's infrastructure and economy, so that Hell's Kitchen had regressed to what it had been before the urban renewal.

So I'm wondering about the Harlem of Luke Cage's comics. I haven't read much Cage stuff, probably just the occasional guest appearance in Spidey or DD comics and online excerpts of the infamous "Where's my money, honey?" Dr. Doom crossover, but I gather that the original version of Luke/Power Man was a comics version of '70s blaxploitation films, so I assume its version of Harlem at the time was very much in that same vein, just as DD's Hell's Kitchen is rooted in the '70s and '80s. Of course, Luke himself as a character has changed a lot since then, but apparently he's still based in Harlem. So the question is, how has Harlem evolved in real life since the '70s, and how has the Marvel/Luke Cage version of Harlem evolved similarly or differently to that? And if the two versions are different, how might the show acknowledge, explain, or split the difference?
 
Harlem got smashed up pretty good in The Incredible Hulk, but I don't think that it was Chitauri levels of destruction.
 
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I'm wondering if Jessica will guest star in this, to provide symmetry with Luke guesting in her show.

I'm also wondering about the setting and fiction vs. reality. Daredevil is set in a fictionalized Hell's Kitchen that's still a run-down hotbed of crime, unlike the highly gentrified area it's become now. The MCU Daredevil reconciled that by establishing that the Battle of New York in The Avengers had trashed much of the city's infrastructure and economy, so that Hell's Kitchen had regressed to what it had been before the urban renewal.

So I'm wondering about the Harlem of Luke Cage's comics. I haven't read much Cage stuff, probably just the occasional guest appearance in Spidey or DD comics and online excerpts of the infamous "Where's my money, honey?" Dr. Doom crossover, but I gather that the original version of Luke/Power Man was a comics version of '70s blaxploitation films, so I assume its version of Harlem at the time was very much in that same vein, just as DD's Hell's Kitchen is rooted in the '70s and '80s. Of course, Luke himself as a character has changed a lot since then, but apparently he's still based in Harlem. So the question is, how has Harlem evolved in real life since the '70s, and how has the Marvel/Luke Cage version of Harlem evolved similarly or differently to that? And if the two versions are different, how might the show acknowledge, explain, or split the difference?
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In the comics, Cage worked out of the Gem Theater in Times Square. Which is on the other end of Manhattan from Harlem.
 
Luke had a big Afro when he started out. Now he's totally bald. Surely Misty's allowed to change her style too.
 
Editorial question: How much time elapsed from the Battle of New York to the events of Jessica Jones S1?
 
Season One of Jessica Jones takes place a little over a year after January 2014 (per dialogue and Jessica's search for bus accidents on a specific day in January 2014), so that would put it between two and a half to three years after the Battle of New York. Multiple references in Daredevil Season One to the Battle of New York occurring "two years ago" place it at least several months prior to Jessica Jones' first season, which seems consistent with the forthcoming Luke Cage's own first season being set "a few months" after that, according to cast interviews.
 
That's pretty cool. I was expecting November or December. I hope we get at least a cameo by Danny Rand (or is that impossible? I'm not sure what the shooting schedule is for Luke Cage, and they only cast Iron Fist recently).
 
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