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Quentin Tarantino Thought About Making A Luke Cage Movie After Reservoir Dogs

Published Fri, 30 Sep 2016 05:44:18 -0500

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Luke Cage is out today on Netflix, which means I know a great many will be spending their weekend with the character. It seems we could have had a very interesting version of the character before this though.

Speaking to Yahoo Movies (via Screen Rant), it appears Quentin Tarantino once thought about taking on the character. This would have been right after Reservoir Dogs, back in 90s. Tarantino said:

I'm a huge fan. I had even considered, after Reservoir Dogs, doing a Luke Cage movie. But I ended up doing Pulp Fiction instead. So I think I might have made the right choice.

Well, frankly, to tell you the truth, I might be one of the pains in their asses because I love the way the character was presented so much in the '70s, I'm not really that open to a rethinking on who he was. I just think that first issue, that origin issue … was so good, and it was really Marvel's attempt to try to do a blacksploitation movie vibe as one of their superhero comics. And I thought they nailed it. Absolutely nailed it. So, just take that Issue 1 and put it in script form and do that.

It is probably better that Tarantino went on to make Pulp Fiction in the grand scheme of things, but the idea of a Luke Cage movie from him in the early 90s is a pretty cool bit of mental projection.

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