Remember that film, Creed, that Michael B. Jordan as the son of Apollo Creed and it should have been nominated for an Oscar? That film was directed by a young new director named Ryan Coogler and his next film will be Marvel’s Black Panther.
Thus far, from Coogler, with his two films Fruitvale Station and Creed, we’ve seen two films that are very personal in nature. But this is a big budget, gigantic studio venture that fits within a very specific, pre-established cinematic universe, so can Coogler’s typically personal style fit into this greater framework?
As the young director told First Company,
“It’s a specific challenge. What Marvel’s doing, and what you see a lot of studios doing now that Marvel has done it so successfully, is making content that exists in a particular universe, where the characters tie in and crossover, and I think that’s a great creative challenge to me—to make this movie as personal as possible. It’s going to be my most personal movie to date, which is crazy to say, but it’s completely the case. I’m obsessed with this character and this story right now, and I think it’s going to be very unique and still fit into the overall narrative that they’re establishing. I grew up as a comic book fan, and the same things used to happen in the comic books. You’d have Wolverine’s books, and they’d be so much darker and more brutal than the X-Men books, but they’d still fit in when you open the pages of the X-Men book. It’s new to movies, but it’s not new to storytelling.”
Coogler is currently working with the script for the film that will star Chadwick Boseman as the Warrior King of the secretive African nation of Wakanda.
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