Wakanda is Coming was designed to get people hyped for Black Panther (2018) and now we are getting ready for the sequel. Comics and film, and how they relate to one another.
Dominique Thorne auditioned for Shuri years ago before being asked to play Riri Williams. Also, wow, Chadwick wearing a 'Stand Up to Cancer' shirt, possibly after he'd been diagnosed.
Kevin Feige and Jon Favreau discuss the 15th anniversary of "Iron Man." Feige drops the revelation that college student Ryan Coogler was in one of the audiences they surprised by introducing the film.
I love these little tidbits. Like how Lupita and Winston Duke went to see "The Avengers" together when they were at Yale.
I didn't comment on Mr. Perlmutter's firing last week. Famously, Kevin Feige had to restructure all of Marvel Studios to get out from Perlmutter's control, because Perlmutter did not want Feige to make Black Panther or Captain Marvel. (Black people! Girls! Gross!) (He was also responsible for making the villain of Iron Man 2 Guy Pearce instead of Rebecca Hall because he said girls didn't sell toys. To which I say, "one ticket for the Barbie movie, please.")
I, personally, think he should've been fired the moment Black Panther and Captain Marvel both made over a billion dollars at the box office. That's an entertainment executive that is just dead weight, and hindering them making billions of dollars.
So when he was fired last week I was like, "OH man, they were still paying him?! Since 2018?! Through COVID? That's some golden parachute."
In this article he whines about it. (It's behind a paywall.) But if you enjoy old, white man tears. Here it is.
There has been speculation that Everett Ross is a Skrull since he will be part of Secret Invasion.
How do you guys feel about that and how it would relate to his role in the Black Panther films? I think it could work if he were one of Talos' "good" Skrulls. Maybe he relates to the Wakandans because they have had to hide for so long, and he wants to help them become part of the world because that's what he wants for his people (who he is more loyal to than the United States).
The thing that would make me sad is we'd have to stop calling him "Colonizer" because the Skrulls were a conquered people. And that is fun for me.
To be clear this isn't a spoiler, just speculation.
Disney+ has a new show called "M-Power" about strong women in the Marvel Universe. I hate the title. But the first episode is the Women of Black Panther.
Unfortunately it only covers the first movie. But Angela Bassett/Ramonda, the dora in general, Danai Gurira/Okoye, Lupita Nyong'o/Nakia, Letitia Wright/Shuri, Florence Kasumba/Ayo, Hannah Beachler, and Ruth E. Carter are featured.
The childhoods of Danai, Lupita and Florence are addressed in archive footage and animation.
Things I would like gifs of:
The animation of Ramonda and little Shuri
BTS from the first movie
Photos of tiny Danai ( don't call her "Dede")
Details of Hannah's sets, and close ups of the bits from her "Bible"