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New Details Revealed About Luke Cage Season Two Villains, “Heroes for Hire” and More

The first issue of Empire‘s Pilot magazine features several juicy sneak peeks of what’s to come on the second season of Marvel’s Luke Cage. The magazine interviews the Netflix series’ showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker, as well as stars Mike Colter and Simone Missick. They discuss season one’s shortcomings, a spinoff and what’s to come in the new season.

Here are the most interesting spoilery scoops:

Bushmaster

This version of the villain is described as “bullet resistant” by Coker and he explains that “It’s not gonna bounce off, but he has his ways of healing. And he has very similar strength to Luke in terms of being able to take a punch and give a punch.”

“Jamaica has always been a country of resistance,” he says, touching on Bushmaster’s Carribean background. “They were the first to cast off their shackles and say, ‘We have our own government, this is how we’re doing things.’ We put a lot of that stuff into the character of Bushmaster.”

Misty Knight

“It’s her shooting hand, it’s her basketball hand, it’s her everything,” Missick says, referring to the character’s newfound disability and the impact it will have on her. “How does this person who is identified by her strength and her power as a cop do that job? She can’t. So we see Misty at the top of the season walking away from the thing that defined her.”

Missick adds: “I’ve got a lot more stunts this season.”

Danny Rand and “Heroes for Hire”

“Danny helps Luke channel his chi,” Coker says, which results “in a fight to end all fights that was just one of the most fun things we’ve done.”

“Me and Finn get along rather well, we’re pretty cool. I think our characters play well off each other,” Colter teased before making it clear that the chances of a Heroes for Hire show is “a question above my pay grade.”

Coker, on the other hand, is a little more positive. “It’s something that’s in the air. Internally at Marvel Television, everybody knows there’s a part of that combination that is inevitable, particularly when you watch them together in the way that we did it. If feels right. It feels good. It feels like, ‘I want to see more of this combination. Heroes for Hire is really not off the table.'”

Season One’s Shortcomings

“The standard conventional wisdom is that the show was great up until episode 7, and then went downhill because Diamondback wasn’t as good a villain as Cottonmouth,” Coker admits. “But as Jeph Loeb, the President of Marvel Television jokes, Mahershala couldn’t have followed Mahershala!”

“It was a great try,” Colter confesses when asked about that first run of episodes. “Some people enjoy the full season. Some really felt the second part was not as strong as the first. And I get both…but you’ve got to take a chance to make your series different, and I thought it was commendable. If people thought it was a miss, that’s fine. We have a different approach for the next season.”

The magazine confirms that Gabrielle Dennis will be playing Nightshade, a character from the comic books who was a biochemist with a strong interest in lycanthropy.

Season 2 of Marvel’s Luke Cage streams June 22 on Netflix.

H/T: ComicBookMovie

Luke Cage Season 2 Gets a Release Date Along with Trailer

Sweet Christmas! After hearing nothing for months about Season 2 of Luke Cage. Netflix finally gave us our first look today for Season 2. Not only did they give us a trailer, they also gave us a release date for the new season.

You can watch the trailer down below:

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Luke Cage Season 2 will be available to stream on June 22.

Source: Netflix’s Youtube

Here’s Our First Look at Misty Knight With Famous Bionic Arm on Netflix’s Luke Cage

We all knew when Misty Knight got her arm cut-off that we would be getting a bionic arm sometime in the future… but did you guess it was going to be so soon?

We certainly didn’t, but now we’re just embracing it.

Our first look at season 2 of Luke Cage features Misty Knight with her bionic arm besides Cage himself, looking like they’re ready to kick some butt.

Netflix Features a Whole Bunch of New Scenes in Latest Featurette for The Defenders

So this is like, serious business, huh?

Seems like everything won’t be just jokes and awkward interactions in the upcoming Marvel’s The Defenders.

The show drops all it’s eight episodes on Netflix this Friday, and the streaming service keeps building up excitement for the series as they’ve now released a featurette that showcases a bunch of unseen scenes.

The clips show a more serious tone to the series, which makes you realize the severity of the situation, and shows some of our favorite characters from previous shows in real danger.

In addition to that, Marvel is continuing their Twitter countdown by releasing a new short clip, now from Jessica Jones’ Twitter page.

Check out both videos below.

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The FINAL Trailer for Marvel’s The Defenders is Here

The Defender drops all its episodes on Netflix in less than a week, and their publicity department is losing no time to make you hyped.

Marvel has dropped a final trailer for the upcoming series, featuring some more cool action as well as, surprisingly, a lot of Iron Fist.

The trailer seems to focus, at least at the beginning, on the way Iron Fist is trying to convince the Defenders that working together is the way to go. It also features some new action and maybe the start of a friendship between Danny Rand and Luke Cage?

Check out the trailer:

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Looks Like Iron Fist and Luke Cage Won’t Start Their Relationship in The Defenders on Very Good Terms

It seems like Luke Cage and Iron Fist won’t be quite the BFFs we love from the comics at the beginning of Marvel’s The Defenders.

Actors Mike Colter (Luke Cage) and Finn Jones (Iron Fist) teased during last week’s San Diego Comic-Con that the two superheroes won’t have the nicest first meeting.

Jones said he thought their interaction was surprising, “everyone knows us as being BFFs and actually the first time we see each other there’s conflict, and it grounds and roots the characters into reality a little bit better, which I think is really interesting.”

Colter added that he thinks the way they first interact is due to the fact that the two characters come from very different paths. He said: “I think it’s just one of those things where Luke has the advantage of years of experience. He’s a little older than Danny, he’s sort of been around, done that. He’s been in prison! He’s got some miles, he’s got some experiences… I’m from the streets, and that’s where we operate.”

It seems like an interesting change from the comics.

Although if you think about it, Iron Fist did punch Luke Cage in the face in the first trailer for the upcoming serioes.

Marvel’s The Defenders is set to air all its eight episodes August 18 on Netflix.

SDCC: New Trailer for Marvel’s ‘The Defenders’ Looks INCREDIBLE

The Comic-Con gods have given us an action-filled trailer for the upcoming Marvel’s The Defenders, and it looks amazing.

The trailer is filled with new action scenes and hilarious lines from our four superheroes who have to unwillingly come together to save the city.

The trailer features the reunion of Daredevil and Elektra, as well as Sigourney Weaver’s Alexandra giving Elektra a very confusing analogy about war.

Check out the trailer:

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It was also confirmed during Comic-Con that Daredevil and Iron Fist are both getting new seasons.

Marvel’s The Defenders comes out in less than a month, on August 18.

We Got a New Image from Marvel’s ‘The Defenders’

Another image for Netflix’s The Defenders has been released.

The poster features our “gang of four:” Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage (looking like he’s about to hurt someone pretty badly), and Iron Fist.

The image looks like it will be used as a promotional banner for an interview of sorts due to the text on it: “Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist have united to form street-level supergroup The Defenders, the four stars brief us on what to expect.”

Here it is:

Marvel’s The Defenders is set to air on Netflix August 18.

Source: Comic Book Movie.

Mustafa Shakir and Gabrielle Dennis Have Been Cast in Luke Cage Season 2

Marvel announced this Wednesday that Mustafa Shakir from “The Deuce” and “The Night Of” and Gabrielle Dennis from “Insecure” and “Rosewood” have joined the cast in Season 2 of Netfix’s Luke Cage.

According to Marvel, Shakir will be playing ‘John McIver,’ a natural leader, brimming with charisma, whose mission is focused on Harlem and vengeance.

Dennis, on the other side, will play ‘Tilda Johnson’ who is a brilliant, holistic doctor with a complicated history in Harlem where, as much as she tries to stay far from trouble, it seems to always find her.

Source: Marvel.