Black Panther Teaser trailer...

Yep That's her. You may have missed Forrest Whitaker also.
Ironically, the funny thing is... I figured him out pretty quickly. :D

Since SW: Rogue One last year, I figured they would also give him a 'big transformation'... so I was aware & really looking out for it. :yes:

But Angela threw me all the way off, with her look. :dunno:

I wasn't ready. :smh:

She's so damn 'naturally' stunning... them makeup artists got to put in some serious 'overtime' to disguise all that sexy goodness. :D
 
10 Things You Obviously Missed in the Black Panther Trailer
BY LEROY DEE · PUBLISHED JUNE 10, 2017 · UPDATED JUNE 10, 2017



Cool poster
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Marvel’s awful Photoshop skills aside (at least it’s better than the Spider-Man Homecoming poster), this poster is a reference to a picture taken of Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party. Both originated in 1966.

Who is this guy?
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This is Everett K. Ross. Yes, he had a few brief scenes in Captain America: Civil War and to those unfamiliar with the comics he may seem like an odd choice for one of the very few non white actors in Black Panther. However K. Everett Ross debuted in Christopher Priest’s late 90’s run on Black Panther as T’Challa’s American liaison, and was actually a VERY crucial character to that series. For those familiar with that comic series his inclusion in the movie is a no-brainer.

Who is THIS guy?
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This is Ulysses Klaw. Oh I’m sorry, this is the MCU. This is Ulysses KLAUE. Yet another glorified cameo so far in the MCU, he also has major ties to Black Panther in the comics. In the comics, THIS is the guy that killed T’Chaka, not Zemo. However he is still hell bent on collection the world’s largest supply of Vibranium for himself, and even gets his arm replaced in the comics with a prosthetic Vibranium arm cannon. He’s also missing an arm so this definitely at least takes place after Age of Ultron. Will the movie adapt that part of his character? Guess we’ll find out.

What is this?
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This is the Panther Plane. Yes. That’s a thing. You saw it briefly in Civil War but seems to be his primary mode of transportation in the movie. Yes, T’Challa designed this one-seater himself, and it’s the fastest plane in Marvel comics. Fun fact, both the original Avengers Quinjet and Falcon’s wings are Wakandan tech in the comics.

He’s also flying to the Golden City, the capital of Wakanda.

Who are they?
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These lovely ladies are the Dora Milaje aka “The Adored Ones.” You may remember the one on the far right from Captain America: Civil War (move or you will be moved). They’re the private bodyguards of the whoever holds the Black Panther title and also potential brides. Wakandan law forbids the Black Panther…ahem…”sampling”…unless he takes one as his bride.

Who is THIS guy?
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No this is not Jaden Smith in 10 years, this is Erik Killmonger, the supposed Big Bad of the movie. Oversimplification is he’s Black Panther’s Bane (even though he predates him by 20 years). He’s normally drawn as much larger man than T’Challa, but the MCU is no stranger to altering adaptations. He actually beat T’Challa in combat and kicked him out of Wakanda, so we’ll see how their fight turns out that is actually shown in the trailer.

Also…wait…is that Chris from Get Out? This trailer just became 10 times more awesome.

Wait…Storm’s in the movie?
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No. She’s not. This is Queen Mother Ramonda, T’Challa’s stepmother and T’Chaka’s widow. She’s also head of the Dora Milaje, since she was once one herself. Also, please, it’s been 20 years already, stop fan-casting Angela Bassett as Storm. That time has passed.

Who is THIS lady?
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Honestly, I’m not sure, but here are my guesses. 1. It’s Aneka from the current Black Panther comics. 2. It’s Shuri. Who is Shuri, you may ask? Shuri is actually T’Challa’s sister, as well as his successor of the Black Panther title (until she was mortally wounded in Thanos invasion of Wakanda and T’Challa was forced to resume the mantle). Either way I’m sure they’re just not handing out Vibranium Panther gauntlets to just anybody.

Who are THESE guys?
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I assume this is the White Gorilla Army of Jabari. Their leader is more than likely M’Baka the Man-Ape. He was the original Man Ape, but the comics eventually retconned them into a warring nation of Wakanda where M’Baka is their leader. Instead of worshiping the panther, they worship the white ape. They’ve also repeatedly tried to overthrow Wakanda, and not above seeking outside help to do so.

Okay…that’s cool…but what just happened?
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So apparently in Black Panther’s new comic series T’Challa has made some improvements to his suit. One of which is to absorb impact and “force push” the kinetic energy back at his opponents. Looking at the energy field around the car that may actually be what happened while he uses his cat like agility to…ahem…land on his feet.



Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to buy a Dashiki before February 156th, 2018…



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I'ma one up you... I'm going to say this will be the highest grossing MARVEL movie of all-time. :yes:

I don't know man... infinity wars has my right eye twitching...

But this is going to do crazy fucking numbers...

And now I'm looking at you DC... you have Jon Stewart and Martin Manhunter sitting on the fucking bench. Get your shit together.

Yeah while I want Black Panther to be successful the way Marvel is building to Infinity War and Thanos kicking ass might be hard to beat.
 
how much will coogler bring in as a director, no one never mentions director's pay. Is his pay determined off gross?
It all depends on the 'split' he negotiated. :dunno:

That tricky ole 'Hollywood Math' works much differently for different people... and different movies. :yes:

Big-time Hollywood Directors can either get a fixed salary, or a percentage of the box-office. Or sometimes both. Depending on the individual.

Marvel might give him a small share of the gross, but only AFTER they make a certain amount FIRST. Like say after they take the first $750 million (or $1 billion), if he's lucky... he might get roughly 3% or so, after that. But I wouldn't count on it.

An American motion picture studio typically gets back somewhere about 40% to 50% of the domestic box office gross a motion picture makes at the theater. A distribution fee, usually 10% to 12%, is paid to the company that distributes the film.

Foreign distribution and foreign movie theaters keep more of the box office gross for themselves (often to cover the costs of transporting a motion picture overseas and promoting it there as well). American studios tend to get back something roughly about 30% of box-office money earned outside of the United States and Canada.

The vast majority of actors and directors are paid a salary for their services while the film is in production. They usually do not get to participate in a percentage of the revenue from the film; instead, they are paid residuals when the film is sold on home video, or shown on television.

SAG-AFTRA typically requires about 3.6% of the gross revenue from any video or TV income to be paid to the actors as residuals (this is divided based on how long an actor worked on the film and their salary).

Producers and writers also receive residuals as well (many producers have deals in place to be paid a percentage of the gross).

A big-time Director like Martin Scorsese or Steven Spielberg makes crazy bank, usually because they get paid in SEVERAL different ways.... for just one, single movie.

A Martin Scorcese-type would get a fixed salary for Directing, plus a salary for being the Producer, plus a salary for Writing the screenplay, plus a cut of the gross for owning the 'production company', plus residuals for when the movie goes to television, plus any cut of the (domestic) box-office they might have negotiated (upfront).

Basically, Scorcese gets paid for his own Writing, Directing & Producing work... and all his production companies involved get paid. Separately.

The budget for Black Panther hasn't been revealed yet, but my guess is... it will be somewhere around $150 million.

Since this is Coogler's first 'big budget' film, he will probably make a fixed rate for Directing.

If so, it will be close to whatever Chadwick Boseman is making. Maybe a little bit less. But only a little. (i.e. So if Boseman makes $10 million, then Coogler would get around $6-8 million, or so)
 
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they called it a 'teaser'....but that's all i needed to see....

the openin' shot where they show Klaw's legs shackled and they wrapped the chain around the cross beam between the legs of the chair....

that's attention to detail....that one little thing tells me a lot about how much research and preparation must've gone into this...

and they got some of my all time favorite actors in it...and some up-and-comers....
 
they called it a 'teaser'....but that's all i needed to see....

the openin' shot where they show Klaw's legs shackled and they wrapped the chain around the cross beam between the legs of the chair....

that's attention to detail....that one little thing tells me a lot about how much research and preparation must've gone into this...

and they got some of my all time favorite actors in it...and some up-and-comers....

Speaking of 'attention to detail'... and that same opening shot with Everett Ross & Ulysses Klaw... I saw the funniest comment on Twitter last night, when a random guy said:

"This movie is gonna be EPIC... I'm dying to watch Bilbo Baggins interrogate Smeagol. Can't wait. I'm all in!!!"

It's been over a decade, so I had totally forgotten that both these guys were in the Lord of the Rings movies. :rolleyes:

:lol::roflmao::roflmao2::roflmao3::lol:
 
‘Black Panther': Ryan Coogler and Kevin Feige Explain First Trailer Footage
BY CHRIS CABIN JUNE 10, 2017

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Let it be known now that 2017 was the year that Marvel figured out something that anyone with half a brain has known for decades: style matters. Okay, if you consider that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Thor: Ragnarok, and Black Panther were in production in 2015 and 2016, they learned this lesson a year or two ago, but you get my meaning. Compared even with the breathless efficiency and kinetic action sequences of Captain America: Civil War, as directed by the Russo brothers, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and just the trailer for Ragnarok have more thoughtful visual sensation packed into their runtimes than arguably the Russos have in three Marvel films thus far. The same goes for the gorgeous-looking Black Panther trailer from last night.

Indeed, putting Ryan Coogler, the brilliant young filmmaker behind Creed and Fruitvale Station, behind the lens of a Marvel movie all but guarantees a better movie than the glut of Marvel products that have seen release thus far. And when the trailer was released last night, the hasty Twitter analysis kicked off with a bang with special attention being paid to Michael B. Jordan‘s villain (and his hair) and the quick shot of Angela Bassett‘s Ramonda, the white-dreaded mother of T’Challa. Another major point of focus was the opening scene between Andy Serkis‘ Ulysses and Martin Freeman‘s Agent Ross, talking about Wakanda, Black Panther’s homeland, and EW got a pair far more knowledgeable than your basic Twitter theorists to talk about that scene and the trailer: Coogler himself and Kevin Feige. The duo gave a number of quotes about the footage in the trailer, including the opening scene, and revealed key details, all of which you can take a look at below.


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The interrogation scene that opens the first Black Panther trailer takes place at a secret security station in Korea, where Chadwick Boseman‘s hero, T’Challa, and Danai Gurira‘s Okoye, his security chief, watch on. Here’s what Coogler had to say about the scene:

“One person knows quite a bit about Wakanda and another person who thinks they do, but they don’t…but I thought it would be awesome to start with a character who has seen Wakanda in its true light.”

Not long after that, there are images of a space shuttle descending into Wakanda – the shuttle is called a Royal Talon Fighter and is manned by T’Challa. These images are from a flashback to our hero returning home after his father’s passing to take up his role as the King of Wakanda, and one can glimpse the Warrior’s Falls, the people of Wakanda, and Zuri, Forest Whitaker‘s character, in those shots. Here’s what Coogler had to say about Zuri:

“Spirituality is something that exists in Wakanda in the comics, and it’s something we wanted to have elements of in the film. Forest’s character, more than anything, is a major tie-back to T’Challa’s father. Zuri is someone he looks to for guidance.”


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Feige and Coogler also commented on the shots of Wakandan children in the trailer and how their work ties back to Zuri’s spiritual guidance and Vibranium:

Feige: “People who read the comics would be familiar with the Heart-Shaped Herb and the ceremonies that surround that…That’s partially spiritual. We certainly don’t call it magic, but there’s Vibranium that has been interwoven within that soil and that land for thousands of years, so there are other things going on with it.”



Coogler: “The Heart-Shaped Herb is how Black Panther achieves his powers. He can fight hand-to-hand with Cap, who’s a supersoldier, so he has super strength and heightened instincts that give him his enhanced abilities…The Heart-Shaped Herb is what Black Panthers over the generations would consume, once they earn the title, which gives them their physical edge.”


Serkis’ Ulysses Klaue was the first villain from the Black Panther universe to be given a proper introduction – in Avengers: Age of Ultron – but he’s seemingly a secondary villain in Black Panther. The number one would be, of course, Jordan’s Erik Killmonger, the man in the weird mask and also a Wakandan exile looking to take back his homeland by force. We get a few shots of him in action, as well as brief glances at Isaach De Bankolé‘s lip-plated elder and Daniel Kaluuya‘s W’Kabi, one of T’Challa’s loyal guards.


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There’s also M’Baku, played by Winston Duke, the leader of the mountain tribe, who originally went by the name “Man Ape” in the comics, where he was one of T’Challa’s most notorious foes. In one shot, he can be seen in ritual combat with Killmonger, and there are numerous instances where we can see Florence Kasumba‘s Ayo, the bodyguard who was ready to disassemble at least one Avenger for getting too close to T’Challa in Civil War.

Ayo is part of the Dora Milaje, T’Challa’s security detail, members of which are also all over the trailer, whether in battle with Killmonger or beside him at the UN when he makes an appearance to represent his people. Other defenders of the king include his sister, Shuria (Letitia Wright), who Coogler describes as both a warrior and a brilliant scientist with the know-how of a Tony Stark. And then there’s Lupita Nyong’o‘s Nakia, another member of the Dora Milaje who carries out high-risk spy missions for T’Challa.


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The final images of the trailer, as EW’s Anthony Breznican points out, look to be set back in Korea, where the interrogation from the beginning occurred. It’s clear that the movie will feature shifts in time at least from the events of Civil War to more modern events – including a mysterious museum heist – but it’s not clear how the narrative will be built. That’s for the better at this point, as the images that the trailer produced alone are making my impatience to see Black Panther nearly unbearable.

Black Panther will be in theaters on February 18th, 2018.



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After the events of Captain America: Civil War, King T’Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country’s new leader. However, T’Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne from factions within his own country. When two foes conspire to destroy Wakanda, the hero known as Black Panther must team up with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Dora Milaje, Wakanadan special forces, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.​
 
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