Marvel Shares New BLACK PANTHER Featurette That Focuses on Africa's Influence on Creating Wakanda
With awards season upon us, Marvel Studios is looking to push its main contender Black Panther. To keep the film fresh in people’s minds, they’ve released a new featurette for the fans of the film.
The featurette includes interviews with the cast and crew talking about the influence that Africa and its culture had on bringing Wakanda to life in the film. It’s explained that they wanted to bring the history of the African nation into the film as they told this fantastical superhero story.
One of the things I loved most about this film was the beautiful visual designs of Wakanda, so it’s pretty cool to get some insight on how the creation of it came together. This is the note that came along with the video:
BLACK PANTHER is director Ryan Coogler’s take on a modern African hero and a utopian vision of what an uncolonized Africa might look like. The film explores the conflict between two powerful men, one African and one African-American, who are mirror images of each other, each grappling with his own history, home and very identity. When Prince T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) becomes king of the hidden, technologically advanced kingdom Wakanda, he is forced to defend his throne against rogue mercenary Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan). Wakanda is also alive with strong, intelligent women—led by Danai Gurira and Lupita Nyong’o, to T'Challa’s tech-savvy sister (Letitia Wright) and mother (Angela Bassett)—who are portrayed as equals to the men they protect and advise.
Watch the video below and let us know what you think about everything the creative team did to bring elements of Africas history to Wakanda.