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 2018.
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 Erik Stevens/Killmonger
- Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue/Klaw
- Forest Whitaker as Achebe
- Letitia Wright as Shuri
- Lupita Nyong'o as Nakia
- Daniel Kaluuya as W'Kabi
- Danai Gurira as Okoye
- Angela Bassett as Ramonda
- Florence Kasumba as Ayo
- John Kani as T'Chaka
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach as David Lieberman/Micro (Cameo)
- James Earl Jones as Ghekre (Cameo)
- Sterling K. Brown as Hunter Stevens (Flashback)
- Nabiyah Be as Linda Stevens (Flashback)