Marvel's Black Panther (Earth-113599)

Marvel's Black Panther is a 2018 live-action superhero film produced by 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios. It is the overall twenty-third film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe released worldwide on February 16th.

Production
In the 90s, Wesley Snipes was in talks with 20th Century Fox to star in and produce a Black Panther adaptation, believing Africans needed more representation in action films. The project flickered in and out of development throughout the decade but was eventually scrapped entirely due to name confusion with the political Black Panther Party, which Fox was scared could cause outrage and hurt their box office.

Nothing progressed with Black Panther for a long time until Marvel Studios acquired permission from 20th Century Fox to use the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe if they so chose in 2008. By the time Phase 2 came around Kevin Feige was heavily considering moving forward with a Black Panther movie thinking he would fit in well alongside the Avengers. At Comic Con Summer 2015 Black Panther was announced as part of their slate to be released in February 2018. Purposely placed in black history month in order to capitalize on the character's inherent themes of African representation. Chadwick Boseman and revealed to actually have his first appearance in Captain America: Civil War in May 2016.

After Black Panther's successful debut in said film, award winning director Ryan Coogler was tapped to helm the project. Filming began and concluded in 2017 in Georgia and Black Panther was released on schedule February 16th 2018.

Cast

 * Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther


 * Michael B. Jordan as N'Jadaka/Killmonger


 * Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue/Klaw


 * Sterling K. Brown as Moses Magnum


 * Letitia Wright as Shuri


 * Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia


 * Daniel Kaluuya as W'Kabi


 * Danai Gurira as Okoye


 * Forest Whitaker as Zuri


 * Martin Freeman as Everett Ross


 * Angela Bassett as Ramonda


 * Florence Kasumba as Ayo


 * John Kani as T'Chaka (Flashback)


 * Ted Danson as President Robert Blackthorne (Cameo)

Plot
The film starts showing the night sky where a young boy asks his father to tell the story of "everything". The father narrates how millions of years ago a meteor struck the continent of Africa gifting the entire land with Vibranium. The narration continues while the audience is shown an animated reenactment of the meteor striking and how one day a warrior shaman received instructions from the Panther goddess Bast to ingest a special herb that grew directly from the Vibranium mound. He did as told and became the first Black Panther who conquered the entire mound transforming it into the Kingdom of Wakanda. The Vibranium allowed the Wakandans to develop technology more advanced than anywhere else in the world, but while Wakanda thrived their neighbors were engulfed in endless wars and exploitation from foreign powers. The only way to stay safe was to hide in plain sight, keeping the truth of culture and power from the outside world.

It is then revealed the father to have been King T'Chaka of Wakanda sitting on the throne telling his son, Prince T'Challa on his lap. Decades later it time skips to show T'Challa now an adult sitting on the throne as King while the Dora Milaje bring N'Jadaka in front of him to face trial.