Join us as we welcome screenwriter, journalist, and producer, @cheo_hodari_coker , to MECCAcon. We’ll be discussing his upcoming projects, his heavily accredited time as a music journalist, and will also take a close and “behind the pages” look at his Netflix series, Marvel's Luke Cage. We’ll also chat with Cheo about his work with NCIS: Los Angeles, Ray Donovan, and his screenwriting for both Creed II, Notorious Movie, and Straight Outta Compton. LIVE! Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 6pm EST, 3pm PST Watch via YOUTUBE:: bit.ly/meccaconyt #netflix #lukecage #hulu #creedii #creed2 #notorious #journalist #NCIS #Southland #RayDonovan #marvel #blackfilmmakers #meccacon #screenwriter #blackactors #indiefilm #indiefilmmaking Seattle based Cheo Hodari Coker is the creator, former show runner, and executive producer of Marvel's Luke Cage. The critically acclaimed drama ran two seasons, from 2016-2018, and is popularly known as “the show that broke Netflix.” Coker currently has an overall television development and production deal for his banner Fighting 99th Entertainment with Amazon Studios. A 1994 graduate of Stanford University, Coker started his career in journalism as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times’ pop music section. He has contributed to numerous national publications, including Rolling Stone, Première, VIBE, The Source Magazine, XXL Magazine, and Essence, and has been featured on VH1s Behind The Music and Netflix’s Hip Hop Evolution. Coker is the author of “Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G.”. Coker co-wrote (with Reggie Rock Bythewood - writer/director) 2009's FOX Searchlight Notorious BIG biopic NOTORIOUS, and segued into television writing for Hulu's SouthLand, where he eventually rose to Supervising Producer and won an 2013 NAACP Image Awards for the season 4 episode “God’s Work”. He followed SouthLand with a stint as a supervising producer on CBS' NCIS: Los Angeles, and Co-Executive Producer for Fox's Almost Human, and Season Two of Showtime's Ray Donovan. Coker’s other feature film credits include the Imagine Entertainment and Television/ Blumhouse film, LOWRIDERS (co-written with Elgin James in 2017), Creed I https://www.instagram.com/p/CGiC_qusW10/?igshid=x7ty6d4wrhkr