After reviving the Rocky franchise in 2015 with the acclaimed spinoff Creed, filmmaker Ryan Coogler has opted against a return to the series – and another reunion with his Fruitvale Station and Black Panther star Michael B. Jordan – passing on directing duties on Creed II. The project will instead be helmed by Steven Caple […]
Director Ryan Coogler thanks fans for making Black Panther a huge success
Marvel unleashed its latest superhero blockbuster Black Panther this past week, with the film proving to be a huge success at the box office, scoring the second biggest domestic four-day weekend in history, and overtaking the North American entire box office run of Warner Bros.’ Justice League in just four days. As the film marches […]
SPOILERS: Ryan Coogler talks Black Panther’s surprise post-credits scene cameo
Warning: Spoilers for the post-credit scene of Black Panther follow… Given the ending of Captain America: Civil War, which saw Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa agreeing to give Bucky Barnes sanctuary in Wakanda and placing him into stasis, many fans assumed that The Winter Soldier would play a role in the events of Marvel’s latest superhero blockbuster […]
The Limitless Promise of Ryan Coogler
Tom Jolliffe looks at Ryan Coogler’s career as a writer/director and the possibilities (and importance) of what comes next… When you breakout in a big way as an independent film-maker, in a small film that manages to hook in a fairly large audience, the expectation for what comes next, begins. Everyone is always billed as […]
Donald Glover offered notes on the first draft of Black Panther
If you take notice of the credits for Marvel’s Black Panther this week when you’re waiting for the last post-credits scene, you may notice Donald Glover and his brother Stephen’s names popping up during the ‘Special Thanks’ section, and director Ryan Coogler has revealed to Collider that the two offered notes on the first draft […]
Black Panther director Ryan Coogler originally wanted Kraven the Hunter to appear
Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa finds himself going up against several villains in Marvel’s latest superhero blockbuster Black Panther, but it seems that director Ryan Coogler originally wanted to feature one other fan-favourite bad guy in Kraven the Hunter! “Being a Marvel fan, you want to grab all the characters,” Coogler told Yahoo! Movies. “You realise there’s contractual things. You […]
Movie Review – Black Panther (2018)
Black Panther, 2018. Directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis. SYNOPSIS: T’Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed […]
Ryan Coogler isn’t concerned about the Black Panther Rotten Tomatoes review trolls
A few days ago it was revealed that a group of anti-Disney DC “fans” had launched a Facebook event urging its followers to flood Rotten Tomatoes with negative reviews for Marvel’s Black Panther in an effort to give the superhero blockbuster a “rotten” audience score. Facebook has since removed the page, while Rotten Tomatoes also […]
Marvel’s Black Panther gets a series of character posters
Marvel Studios has just released a batch of character posters for next year’s Black Panther featuring Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, Michael B. Jordan as Erik Killmonger, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia, Angela Bassett as Ramonda, Letitia Wright as Shuri, Forest Whitaker as Zuri, Daniel Kaluuya as W’Kabi, Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaue, Martin Freeman […]
How Creed 2 can work, and the pitfalls it must avoid
Tom Jolliffe on Creed 2… When Ryan Coogler delivered Creed to the world, it took most people completely by surprise. A spinoff to a franchise that was nearing 40 years old, which had been adequately closed in 2006’s, Rocky Balboa. There wasn’t really much demand for the film, but he had a vision. It was […]
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