Marvel has just announced that the showrunner for the highly anticipated 'Luke Cage' series will be Cheo Hodari Coker, and beyond that, the Netflix series has been set to premiere in 2016.

Coker has worked on several crime/thriller shows such as 'Ray Donovan', 'Almost Human', 'Southland', and 'NCIS: Los Angeles'.

Mike Colter has already been announced to take on the role as Luke Cage, and while he will lead his own show, it will share the same universe as 'Daredevil,' 'Jessica Jones,' and 'Iron Fist'.

Below is part of the official press release from Marvel:

"Netflix & Marvel Television announced today that Cheo Hodari Coker will serve as executive producer and showrunner of the anticipated series, Marvel's Luke Cage. Coker is writing the first two episodes of the series that will premiere in 2016, everywhere that Netflix is available."

"Most recently, Coker served as a co-executive producer on the second season of Ray Donovan, and prior to that was a supervising producer on the critically-acclaimed, fourth season of the drama SouthLAnd. Coker was a part of the SouthLAnd team that earned the show a 2012 Peabody Award. Coker also garnered a 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing for a Dramatic Series for his work on that show. Coker's feature film credits include Fox Searchlight's rap biopic Notorious. He authored the book Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of The Notorious B.I.G as well. Coker started his writing career in journalism and was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and contributed to VIBE, Rolling Stone, Essence, among other publications. He is a graduate of Stanford University."