You would think that Quentin Tarantino, a director known for creating his own iconic cinematic characters, wouldn’t have any interest in directing a comic book film. It turns out that at one point, he did:
“One of the things I wanted to do before Pulp Fiction to some degree or another…one of the outside projects that I considered doing was doing a Luke Cage movie,’ Why weren’t we treated to this cinematic endeavor?”
Tarantino goes on to explain:
“In the case of Luke Cage, it was my comic geek friends that almost talked me out of it, because I thought Larry Fishburne back in the day would’ve been a great Luke Cage, and they were talking about Wesley Snipes, and I could see them both, but it was like ‘I think Fish would be better.’ And they go ‘Yeah…he could work out and everything, but he doesn’t have the bod that Wesley Snipes has, and Luke Cage needs to have the bod.”
This seems to be what put the director off the most about directing the film:
“And I literally was so turned off that that would be their both starting and ending point, that it literally put it in my head that, if I do a comic book movie, it should be an original character. It should be something I create rather than try to fit in.”
It’s a shame that he wasn’t able to bring the character to the big screen because who knows what the world of comic book movies would look like now. Snipes seemed like the more obvious choice, but it would have been interesting to see what Laurence Fishburne could have done in the role. Both actors have gone into star in comic book movies of course, with Snipes as the title character in Blade and Fishburne as Perry White in Man of Steel.
Had the film been produced, the world may not have seen Pulp Fiction which would have been a travesty, besides we currently have a Luke Cage, in the form of Mike Colter who can next be seen in his solo series next year.
Source: Nerdist
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