Casting Underway

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More Marvel TV Casting--'Jessica Jones' & 'Luke Cage'
4 Vying for 'Jones' Role, Lance Gross & Mike Colter Up for 'Cage'

This has turned out to be a big day for casting news concerning comic book-based movies and TV series. The latest news to drop is a report that four actresses are currently in the running to play the title role in the Marvel Comics-based Netflix series Jessica Jones. With the Netflix Daredevil series already in production , the casting of the Jessica Jones series can’t be far behind, and since Luke Cage will appear in 6-7 episodes of Jessica Jones, Melissa Rosenberg and the other producers at Netflix have to make a decision there as well. Luke Cage will eventually get his own Netflix series, and after the completion of the four "individual" series (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, & Luke Cage), the four heroes will combine in a final Netflix series that will complete "phase one" of the Marvel/Netflix experiment

Deadline is reporting that Alexandra Daddario, Krysten Ritter, Teresa Palmer, and Jessica De Grouw are all under consideration for the 13-episode Jessica Jones series about a superhero with post-traumatic stress disorder, who hangs up the spandex and opens a detective agency where her clients include other superheroes.


As for Luke Cage, the top two contenders for the role according to Deadline are Lance Gross (Crisis) and Mike Colter (The Good Wife, The Following).

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MARVEL TELEVISION NARROWS CHOICES OF ACTORS FOR LUKE CAGE, JESSICA JONES

Deadline reported Wednesday that Marvel is testing actors for the leading roles of its "Jessica Jones" and "Luke Cage" television collaborations with Netflix.

Krysten Ritter, Alexandra Daddario, Teresa Palmer and Jessica De Gouw are all reported to have tested for the leading role of Jessica Jones, while Lance Gross and Mike Colter are two actors under consideration for Luke Cage, who is reported to appear in six or seven episodes of "Jessica Jones" before headlining his own "Luke Cage" series.

Fans of comic book-based TV shows will likely be most familiar with De Gouw, who has appeared as Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress on "Arrow." Ritter is best known for her roles on "Don't Trust the B--- in Apt. 23" and "Breaking Bad," Daddario recently played Lisa Tragnetti on HBO's "True Detective" and Palmer was the female lead in 2013 zombie comedy "Warm Bodies."

As for the two actors said to be under consideration for Luke Cage, Lance Gross is one of the main actors in NBC's "Crisis," while Mike Colter has appeared on "The Good Wife" and "American Horror Story."

"Jessica Jones" is the second drama of four in the Marvel/Netflix deal with reports placing Melissa Rosenberg as showrunner. The series centers on the eponymous character, a retired costume superhero-turned jaded private investigator. In the source material, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage started a romantic relationship, had a child and were married.

"We are very aware of the idea that a number of the people who watch the show are going to binge-watch it," Marvel Television head Jeph Loeb told CBR in October of "Daredevil," the first Marvel/Netflix series, set to debut in 2015. "For them, it will feel like one massive 13-part epic adventure. But it is not that unlike when in the world of comics, a new team comes on to tell an arc -- that arc is a self-contained, beautifully told story that has a particular point of view. Hopefully our driving momentum makes you want to pick up the next issue; or in this case, the next episode."