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Quentin Tarantino almost made a Luke Cage movie

Quentin Tarantino considered making a ‘Luke Cage’ film.

During an interview with Yahoo! Movies, the 53-year-old filmmaker revealed that he’s a big fan of Marvel’s ‘Luke Cage’… and even considered making a movie about the character.

“I’m a huge fan,” he explained. “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.”

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Marvel’s ‘Luke Cage’ debuted in 1972 shortly after Blaxploitation films emerged as a popular new genre. And it looks as though that’s what Tarantino loved about the original comic books.

So what are his hopes for the ‘Luke Cage’ TV show?

“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,” Tarantino admitted. “I’m not really that open to a rethinking on who he was.”

Now, that might be a bit of a problem. After all, the Netflix version of Luke Cage is very different to the ‘70s hero found in the original comic books. In fact, when I spoke to ‘Luke Cage’ star Mike Colter, he explained why he wanted to move on from that early comic book image.

“I was worried,” admitted Colter. “Because I was thinking ‘Can they get away from this jive-talking character that they created in the ‘70s?’ But then I was talking to [showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker] and what we realised is that ultimately, at its core, Blaxploitation is just the lead black character doing all the things that the lead white character does - getting the girl, looking cool doing it, kicking butt and saving the day.”

“We didn’t want to take it too seriously, but we did want to make a nod.”

And that’s not exactly what Tarantino had in mind.

“I just think that first issue, that origin issue … was so good, and it was really Marvel’s attempt to try to do a Blaxploitation movie vibe as one of their superhero comics,” said Tarantino. “And I thought they nailed it. Absolutely nailed it. So, just take that Issue 1 and put it in script form and do that.”

Not quite what Marvel and Netflix are going for with the new TV show.

Still, there are plenty of nods to the comic books. Perhaps that’ll be enough to satisfy Tarantino’s inner Marvel fanboy.

‘Luke Cage’ heads to Netflix on 30 September 2016.

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Picture Credit: Marvel, Netflix