There's news on John Singleton's Luke Cage, the film adaptation of the black comic book superhero that has more basis in reality than most superheros. Apparently it looks like Singleton is starting to wonder if it will ever get made:

"I don't know if I'm doing Luke Cage. I want to do Luke Cage...because it's a black superhero and so studios still, some studios, don't understand that yeah, it is a black superhero but so what? He's a superhero. That hasn't been done yet. Like I said, unless it's right, I ain't gonna do it...

...It's got to have a great script. We have a great script. We have a couple of great scripts. It's just a matter, like I said, some people have not got it yet. I'm not saying every studio on the board, some people haven't got it that multi-ethnic sells."

That's the news from a short interview with Comic Book Movie.

Well I wonder if it has less to do with black issues and more to do with the fact that the script shows Cage returning to his neighbourhood and using his skills to gain money and power. Sure he finds a way out of that and Singleton says that he does understand why he has is powers and what they should be used for, but to begin with his character is portrayed in a less than heroic light.

Could that actually be the real problem for some studios? I could see them coming under a fair bit of flack for releasing a film with a character behaving like that. What do you think?