Marvel Entertainment has released the first trailer for Black Panther, revealing the Afrofuturist awesomeness of Wakanda and introducing a badass cast of characters to join T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman).
Seriously, look at Danai Gurira as Okoye and Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia and tell us that villain Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) stands any sort of chance.
The official synopsis:
Black Panther follows T’Challa who, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king. But when a powerful old enemy reappears, T’Challa’s mettle as king—and Black Panther—is tested when he is drawn into a formidable conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people and their way of life.
Black Panther comes to theaters February 16, 2018.
Looks mindblowingly awesome :O
AAAH This gives me chills! I wish I could have worked this one. The Panther crew says it was amazing, and I believe them! It looks so stunning.
Oh my goodness yes I will watch this movie. I would even go twice, to let the studio know how much we want people of color in their films.
I love the look of all things Wakanda and the fighting scenes. The trailer looks a bit too Fast & Furious, so I hope the actual movie isn’t that much like that.
Will the movie feature Wakanda deciding to withhold the cure for cancer, like the comics do?
*inaudible squee*
This gets me in all my tingly bits. Thanks!
Meredith @@@@@ 3 – right!? Maybe I’ll go three times. I’m exciteddd!!
Whoa. I wasn’t too interested at first, but this looks incredible. Looking forward to it.
Very interesting song choice for the trailer. Will the movie be as political and controversial as the song suggests? Anyway, it is pretty awesome seeing full-bore Afrofuturism in a big-budget, mainstream Hollywood blockbuster.
@5/random22: To be fair, if you consider how horribly the rest of the world has treated Africa over the past few centuries, it’s hard to blame the Wakandans for feeling, one, that they needed to stay hidden from the rest of the world for their own survival, and two, that they didn’t owe the rest of the world a damned thing. Sure, with their tech, maybe they could’ve fought off the colonizers and helped the rest of Africa do the same, but it’s more likely that they would’ve eventually been overwhelmed by sheer numbers. After all, there’s a lot more coal and oil in the world than there is vibranium.