“Black Panther” like his Vibranium shaken, not stirred.
Marvel’s upcoming superhero movie gets the spotlight on the cover Entertainment Weekly this week, just in time for Comic-Con. EW also released a bunch of new photos that reveal more details about T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), adversary Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), cover agent Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o), and the denizens of Wakanda.
All of the Marvel movies have different tones, and “Black Panther” is a mash-up of two iconic film classics.
“What I think we landed on was sort of a cross between James Bond and ‘The Godfather,’” executive producer Nate Moore said. “A big, operatic family drama centered on a world of international espionage. So hopefully we’re getting the best of both worlds.”
Boseman also referenced 007 in talking about T’Challa, the young ruler of Wakanda. “There’s always a possibility that there could be some other woman,” he noted, adding, “In the James Bond movies, there is always the girl but then in the next movie there is another girl.
“Lupita [Nyong’o, who plays former lover Nakia] and I are always joking about that. She will say, ‘There better not be another woman in the next one!’ I’m like, ‘Hey, you better lock it down!’”
Here are a few of the new images — head over to EW for the rest:
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So don’t worry. Or do worry, but just about heat exhaustion for so many actors to be doing major stunt scenes in the Georgia summer heat.
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On Monday night, I was invited, along with a handful of other journalists, to an “open house” at Marvel Studios’ offices on the Disney lot in Burbank. Honestly I didn’t know what to expect. Open house could have meant anything. They could have been showing off their new couches and conference rooms for all we knew. (And seriously, nobody knew a thing.) We got into groups and went on the tour of the offices, which is strikingly cool from the moment you get off the elevator. There were giant murals on the wall; in the waiting room were several Iron Man suits, lit up and looking impressive. Towards the reception desk were costumes from “
The reel was a combination of interviews, footage from the set, and conceptual artwork. Several people talk about how advanced the nation of Wakanda, first glimpsed at the end of “Captain America: Civil War,” is, with vehicles that look like space ships flying around, and advanced armor (including what looked like some kind of robotic rhinoceros — yes, please). 
In the next art room there was even more art and, oh yeah, “Ant-Man and The Wasp” director Peyton Reed. This was a huge surprise. I didn’t think we’d actually be meeting any of the filmmakers on our tour; I probably would have tucked my shirttail in if I had known this. Reed, who also directed the sorely underrated first “Ant-Man,” showed off some preliminary artwork from the new film, including both old and new versions of the Ant-Man suit (with the “Captain America: Civil War” being the in-between iteration). Reed teased Pym’s new lab (“Where is he working?”), further far-out adventures in the quantum realm (the Marvel Cinematic Universe equivalent of the comics’ micro-verse), and new technology that allows Ant-Man and the Wasp to shrink not only themselves but also those around them. One of the most striking pieces of artwork was Luis’s van from the first film in the jaws of a dog. It looks terrific; really beautiful and weird like the best parts of the first movie with a larger emphasis on playful psychedelic. Reed was as charming and accommodating as always and nimbly avoided answering certain questions.
Our next stop was the visual effects review review room. Standing in the corner, tall and grey and dressed like he was waiting outside of a Los Feliz coffee shop, was Taika Waititi, the super-genius director of “Thor: Ragnarok.” “Today we’re going to introduce you to a character that nobody knows is in the movie,” he said. That character is Korg, a giant rock man who featured prominently in the “Planet Hulk” comic book arc that “Thor: Ragnarok” borrows from. Fighting alongside Korg is his sidekick, Miek, who is a larva inside of a robotic exo-skeleton suit. It’s honestly one of the weirdest things you’ve ever seen and a huge departure from the character, who is way more insect-like in the comics. (As if anyone thought Waititi was going to follow anything verbatim.)
Finally we went into the main theater on the ground level and watched visual effects dailies from “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and the aforementioned “Black Panther” stuff. Visual effects dailies are when they review shots from various effects houses (there were at least a half dozen effects houses credited with the Spider-Man work, including Sony Pictures ImageWorks). Most of these shots were just a few seconds long and many took place in sequences already teased in the trailer — Spider-Man foiling bank robbers dressed as the Avengers, him climbing to the top of the Washington Monument. We did see a really impressive long shot of him putting on his suit in an alleyway, presumably coming home from school. It’s unbroken, tracking through the alley, as he puts on the suit that is, at first, pretty baggy and then snugly fitted to his body. A producer noted that the size of a rat that scampers away will be bigger and there’s still discussion as to how disgusting to make a bag of trash that opens once he web-shoots his bag to the side of the bin. “If we add in some sound effects we can make it really gross,” the producer says cheerfully.
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