Black Actors Are Taking Hollywood By Storm With New Movie “Black Panther”

Black Panther Premiere

On Monday, January 29, a wonderful, historic coalition of Hollywood’s finest black [African] talent convened to premiere what’s expected to be one of the greatest films of our generation, Marvel’s Black Panther. Early reviews are incredibly promising. 

Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

It is the eighteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Ryan Coogler from a screenplay by him and Joe Robert Cole, and stars Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther, alongside Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis.

In Black Panther, T'Challa returns home as king of Wakanda but finds his sovereignty challenged by a long-time adversary in a conflict that has global consequences.

Wesley Snipes first mentioned his intention to work on a Black Panther film in 1992, with that project going through multiple iterations over the next decade but never coming to fruition.

A Black Panther film was announced as one of the ten films based on Marvel characters that would be developed by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures in September 2005, with Mark Bailey hired to write a script in January 2011.

Black Panther was officially announced in October 2014, with Boseman first appearing in Captain America: Civil War.

By the end of 2015, Cole and Coogler had both joined, and additional cast members came on board beginning in May 2016, becoming Marvel's first film with a predominantly black cast.

Principal photography for the film took place from January to April 2017, at EUE/Screen Gems Studios and Pinewood Atlanta Studios in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and Busan, South Korea.

According to Daily Nation, Kenya’s Kisumu city has been chosen for the premiere of the much anticipated movie "Black Panther" that features Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong’o.

The movie will open on February 16, 2018 worldwide.

However, residents of Kisumu will get to watch it on February 13 as an honor to the actress.

Speaking to Sunday Nation, Imax marketing manager Flora Njagi said they chose Kisumu because Lupita was “a girl from that soil”.

Lupita plays Nakia, a Wakanda spy and former flame of new king T’Challa, who is often sent on missions around the world.