{"id":25509,"date":"2012-12-18T17:27:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=25509"},"modified":"2012-12-18T17:27:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T22:27:56","slug":"sweet-christmas-tarantino-thought-about-making-a-luke-cage-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/18\/sweet-christmas-tarantino-thought-about-making-a-luke-cage-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Christmas! Tarantino Thought About Making A LUKE CAGE Movie!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Luke_Cage\"<\/a>Quentin Tarantino likes to talk about projects he is considering, even though many of them never come to fruition, so it comes as somewhat of a surprise to hear about a potential film he was interested in making that had never been discussed before. Even more surprising is that film would have been a comic book adaptation.<\/p>\n

In an interview with MTV while out flogging his new film Django Unchained<\/strong>, Tarantino reveals that he had been thinking about doing a film based on a popular Marvel Comics character and had even approached Lawrence Fishburne about starring in it.<\/p>\n

After Reservoir Dogs<\/strong>, I had considered doing a Luke Cage, Hero For Hire<\/em> movie. Ed Pressman owned the rights at that time, and we talked about it. I talked to Larry Fish about being Luke Cage, and he really liked that idea. Then I ended up writing Pulp Fiction<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I guess what was Fishburne and comic book movie fans\u2019 loss turned out to be John Travolta and indie film fans\u2019 gain.<\/p>\n

The idea of Tarantino directing a Luke Cage movie certainly sends the imagination reeling. The comic, created by writer Archie Goodwin and artist John Romita in 1972, was an attempt to create a superhero character in the mold of heroes in the then-popular Blaxploitation film craze and, as is very obvious, Tarantino is very much a fan of that genre. If there was ever a comics character suited for Tarantino\u2019s film sensibilities it is Luke Cage.<\/p>\n

More recently director John Singleton was developing a Luke Cage movie with Marvel Studios with a by screenwriter Ben Ramsey in 2004, but as there has been no news on the project in several years it has presumably died in development hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a brief moment, the iconic director was contemplating his own comic book film adaptation.<\/div>\n

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