he Hollywood Reporter has the announcement: Mike Colter is Netflix’s Luke Cage, otherwise known as Power Man (though mostly just as Luke Cage).
Colter is has most recently appeared in roles on The Good Wife and Halo: Nightfall, but you might also be familiar with him from Zero Dark Thirty, The Following, or American Horror Story. The actor joins the Marvel Universe’s foray into online television as Luke Cage, a man given super strength and invulnerable skin while doing prison time for a crime he didn’t commit. Upon his escape, he dons a costume and fights crime on the streets of New York City as Power Man, nominally only for pay, but stories often found Cage and his frequent partner Iron Fist either losing out on or heroically forfeiting their income in one way or another. In comics he would eventually meet, fall in love with, marry, and co-parent a child (not necessarily in that order) with fellow street-level-superhero Jessica Jones, also due for her own Netflix series.
