Mike Colter Wants Luke Cage for a Classic Daredevil Story

The explosive first season of Daredevil: Born Again has a lot in common with the Marvel Comics story Devil’s Reign. In both tales, Wilson Fisk becomes mayor of New York City and wages war against his enemies, especially Daredevil. At the end of the comic story, Luke Cage becomes the new mayor, which has raised hopes that Mike Colter would be reprising the character he played on Netflix.

As of yet, there’s been no news about Mike Colter reprising his role as Luke Cage for Born Again or any other Marvel show. However, Colter is already pitching ideas for a return, and he’s drawing from a Daredevil story that isn’t Devil’s Reign. “I definitely would want to see him find out what it’s like to have the power and complete control of the neighborhood,” Colter told The Direct; “and see if he can do the right thing and at the same time, keep his hands from getting dirty.” That premise makes a lot of sense for Cage, especially the version that Colter played for two seasons on Netflix. But it also sounds a lot like two classic Daredevil storylines, one beloved and the other remembered, but not fondly.

In the final pages of 2003’s Daredevil #50, by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, and a host of guest artists, Daredevil throws the battered body of Wilson Fisk onto the floor of Josie’s Bar. “This is your Kingpin!” he shouts to the assembled thugs, before declaring his new position. “I am here to say: if you people so badly need some sort of Kingpin, someone to lord over you—well, from now on, it’s me.”

The issues that followed saw Matt experiencing initial success, keeping Hell’s Kitchen safe by becoming the new Kingpin. However, even before things began to unravel and Fisk plotted his return, his friends expressed concern about the dirty way that Daredevil brought order. A group of other heroes arrive to confront Matt, including Spider-Man, Mister Fantastic, Doctor Strange, and, yes, Luke Cage. They warn Daredevil that his methods will compromise his morals, and although he rejects them at first, they turn out to be right.

And yet, seven years later, Matt Murdock makes the same mistake, with far more uneven results. In the 2010 storyline Shadowland by Andy Diggle and Billy Tan, Daredevil becomes the leader of the mystical ninja clan known as the Hand. He establishes Hell’s Kitchen as a new base of operations, kills his arch-nemesis Bullseye, and eventually realizes that he’s being corrupted by supernatural forces. But not before other heroes confront him over his methods, a group of heroes that once again includes Cage.

Despite his character’s misgivings about such behavior, Colter wants to see Cage take control of his neighborhood. And it makes a lot of sense. Cage’s Harlem is not the same as Daredevil’s Hell’s Kitchen, particularly in its relationship to law and order. Many of Matt’s troubles come from his extraordinarily bad choices and his unshakeable Catholic guilt, while Cage knows first hand how the law enforces systemic racism. The stakes of his power grab would be very different than those of Daredevil, as would the heroes’ response.

Will Colter get the chance to play a morally complex Cage? “I have been talking to Marvel, and Jessica’s back, and there’s a lot of story left to tell, and I just think that it’d be a shame for me not to pop back up,” he told The Direct. Will that story left to tell send Luke down the same path as Matt? We’ll have to wait to find out.

Daredevil: Born Again season 2 arrives on Disney+ on March 24, 2026.