The Oscar-winning actor believes there's enough room for all kinds of movies.
The OCage, 59, was born Nicolas Kim Coppola — he's the nephew ofauteur Francis Ford Coppola — got his stage name from Marvel comic character, Luke Cage.Speaking at the Miami Film Festival, where the, Cage said, "I’ve gotta be nice about Marvel movies, because I named myself after a Stan Lee character named Luke Cage. What am I going to do, put Marvel movies down?
"Stan Lee is my surrealistic father. He named me. I understand what the frustration is. I get it. But I think there’s plenty of room for everybody.. I’m seeing all kinds of artistic and independently driven movies. I think there’s plenty of room for everybody."Maybe a few years ago. In a. Responding to speculation he could reprise the role of Johnny Blaze and his alter-ego with the flaming skull Ghost Rider in the Benedict Cumberbatch-led Marvel movie, Cage said: "Oh, I don’t think so. I don’t think they’re casting me. I mean, I would do it.In the same GQ feature, Coppola made it clear he doesn't agree with his uncle Francis or Martin Scorsese's take on Marvel movies.
“I mean, I don’t think the Marvel movie had anything to do with the end of the tweener. By tweener, I mean the $30 to $50 million budget movie. I think movies are in good shape.", or any of Megan Ellison’s movies. I think that there’s still Paul Thomas Anderson.", where he plays Dracula, with Nicholas Hoult as his long-suffering manservant, opens in cinemas on Apr 13.