Is T’Challa headed for the screen? If you listen to Latino Review, the answer is yes.
It makes sense. We were pretty gung-ho about a Doctor Strange movie, but since The Avengers is on track to make $600 million in the United States alone, Marvel obviously wants to introduce more Avengers to make sure the second film makes even more money.
It’d also go a long way towards resolving the not unreasonable gripe that the Avengers are about as diverse as an Abercrombie catalogue, and watching T’Challa beat people up is always entertaining, even after Marvel decided to nerf him in the comics.
But who should direct? We’ve got five nominees.
#5) Antoine Fuqua
Fuqua knows both action and drama: he directed “Training Day”, “Tears of the Sun”, and “Brooklyn’s Finest”. Of course, he’s also pretty busy, but he could probably make some room for a guaranteed massive hit.
#4) Bronwen Hughes
If you want to make a movie about Africa, go with an African director. Yeah, she made “Harriet the Spy”, but Hughes also delivered the great and underseen action movie “Stander” in 2003…and has been unfairly stuck in TV ever since. But she could deliver a great “Black Panther”.
#3) Neill Blomkamp
Come on, you’ve seen “District 9″. You know what he’s capable of. And he’s wrapping up “Elysium” for 2013, so he’ll probably be looking for work.
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Damn. Ray Bradbury died.
i think the oldboy remake is FASCINATING. It’s completely and totally unnecessary, but I am really, really interested to see what lee does with it.
The problem is, “Oldboy” is so specifically Korean, and the ending is such a mix of the gross and the weird, that I don’t see any way it’s not going to be a mess of a remake.
Honestly, I was fully expecting to see the Hughes Brothers on this list. They showed they can work with a big name on Book of Eli. Not everyone can manage that. They DEFINITELY showed they can handle action sequences in Eli.
And say what you want about the cinematic flaws of Menace II Society, they certainly have a feel for street level story telling. Of course, this only really matters if you’re going with the modern Black Panther. But even if you focus on the story aspects where he’s the ruling monarch of a sovereign nation while at the same time sporting midnight Underoos, there’s no reason to think they couldn’t handle it.
Just don’t fully include him as an Avenger. At least not right away. He deserves a fleshed out story of his own before he’s forced into a much smaller role as an ensemble character.
Just anyone but John Singleton, please.
How did Marvel nerf him? I’m not too familiar with the character, but wasn’t he always kind of a black widow/captain america hybrid?
The recent run of him defending Hell’s Kitchen basically stripped him of his gear and had him getting his ass kicked way too often for somebody of his capability.
Spike Lee: Even though he’s already done a one man show that I directed, I’m thinking Roger Guenveur Smith as Huey Newton and Don Cheadle as Bobby Seale…
WB Exec: What are you talking about? Who the hell are these people? This is about some African super hero dude, bro. Oh shit this Bolivian shit is incredible, totally different than Colombian. Oh man! One time I was fuckin’ this Colombian lady boy, he was 14 or something, and he looked JUST LIKE Sofia Vergara, except he had two dicks, and the whole weekend only cost me $35. So you want a toot of this shit or what? Fight the Power. Jesus Christ am I high.