Black Panther Shows His Claws in New Image From CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR
That hero shot of Black Panther from Captain America: Civil War's first trailer was pretty badass, and then EW had to go and unnecessarily add the word "meow" next to his face on the cover of their magazine this morning. Meow? That seems a little insulting to the King of Wakanda, don't you think? Anyway, the magazine has released a new image of the character and has a few quotes from star Chadwick Boseman about what we can expect from the comic character's first onscreen appearance next year:
“He’s definitely not the life of the party in this instance,” says Boseman, who won the role last October. “I think this is something true of the comic book character and the movie. You never quite know where he stands. There’s always a bit of concealing and mystery. So I think mysterious is more his boat. Not to say there’s not charm and he can’t be a ladies’ man and all that. It’s more like if there is humor, it’s more like James Bond.”
“There definitely is a sort of tradition that he’s torn between, in terms of how things were done in the past and how things need to happen now in this new world,” says Boseman. “I think there’s perhaps a bit of a maverick there, and then there’s also a need to live up to traditions and his father’s legacy. And not even his father’s legacy, but the entire nation of Wakanda. I think those are the things you will see.”
Executive producer Nate Moore chimed in about the temperament of the character and how he won't be the older, wiser figure comic fans might recognize:
The movie version is also not the same Black Panther fans now see in comics, almost 40 years after his creation. “In publishing, he is sort of this very wise and a sanguine figure who seems to know more than he lets on,” Moore says. “I think this is Black Panther in his younger years, where he maybe is a little bit more fiery than I think how they write him in the comics because he’s very much in the nascent stages of being a hero. So that means he is probably more fallible than the Black Panther that you read in comics, but for reasons that are completely logical.”
There's more about the character in the full EW interview, but in the meantime, what do you all think about this new image? Are you excited to see Black Panther make his debut in Civil War?