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Ryan Coogler Calls 'Black Panther' the James Bond of the MCU

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Ryan Coogler Calls 'Black Panther' the James Bond of the MCU

"When I first started talking to Marvel, one thing they were interested in was for Panther to be their version of James Bond, which I thought was incredibly interesting and exciting," Coogler said. "It was a really outside-of-the-box way to look at T'Challa. There are some Bond films that I really, really like, and it gave me the opportunity to go watch some other ones."
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T'Challa will have his own Q in Letitia Wright's Shuri who comes up with creative state-of-art gadgets and stuff for the king to use against Killmonger.

"Yeah, why not? She's T'Challa's Q. She's by his side with the technology he needs. The way she helps him is really cool," Wright said.
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"I hope Shuri can help people. Maybe you're in school right now, and super smart and super intelligent, and people may be saying, 'You're a geek,' or whatever, making them feel bad. Maybe they can watch this film and be like, 'Man! Being smart or a scientist or super great at math is not a bad thing at all.'"
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Where Captain America: The Winter Soldier would transition from its action scenes into a political thriller, Black Panther will have gadgets, car chases and love stories that will make it feel much more like a Bond movie.

I really wonder what kind of technology we will see in the movie. We have seen sound-wave blasters, and T'Challa's suit is bulletproof, can make him stick to walls so he can wall-run, it got build in night-vision. It can conform to his body out of nowhere. In the country there's zero-rail trains, houses that are surrounded by probable bulletproof glass and we will probably see technology build into people's clothes. Have we seen any other tech from the trailers? What are those devices Black Panther throws at the vehicles when he jumps off the plane? Were those tracking devices or bombs?
 
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The Client could be interpreted as a spy thriller
 
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I sure hope it's one of the half a dozen good Bond movies rather than the endless parade of derivative schlock full of product placements that defines most of the Bond franchise.
 
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Tunahead said:
I sure hope it's one of the half a dozen good Bond movies rather than the endless parade of derivative schlock full of product placements that defines most of the Bond franchise.
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I think Ryan Coogler takes inspiration from the 60a and 70s Bond movies for his films.
 
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This just made me wonder why Marvel never got their "Sherlock Holmes" character. They have a gajillion "smartest men of the universe" but no actual great detective/deduction character, maybe it's too boring for comics to not have fights and crazy space stuff all the time?
 
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TheGreatDirector said:
Who's Jaws then?
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I think I love Ryan Coogler


For some reason, I haven't thought at all about T'Challa having a love interest or romance in this film. Oyokye?
 
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Elegant Weapon said:
I think I love Ryan Coogler


For some reason, I haven't thought at all about T'Challa having a love interest or romance in this film. Oyokye?
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Well they have a certain character
Lupita plays Nakia who falls in love with T'Challa but they can't be together due to how the adored ones are setup. She turns on him because he puts the country ahead of them

Happens in the comics no idea about the movie
 
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Hmmm, but if they make BP the bond of the universe, where does that leaves any potential Black Widow movie?
 
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PSqueak said:
Hmmm, but if they make BP the bond of the universe, where does that leaves any potential Black Widow movie?
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I don't think we should take it that literal. I do not expect it to feel heavily like a James Bond flick, but rather it having small elements inspired by those 60s and 70s Bond films. So you'll see a nice casino scene set in Korea with beautiful costume design and set design, and you'll see state of the art gadgets like you see in the trailers, and that one big car chase seen in the beginning of the movie. But there's plenty of room for Black Widow to be a spy thriller with cool gadgets of her own she'll use in combat like you saw in the Iron Man 2 hallway.
 
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I can't wait to see this movie, but It's going to be a superhero action movie, as they all are.

They always try to say these movies are political thrillers or psychological or something more. They're just fun popcorn flicks.
 
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PSqueak said:
Was he bitten by a radioactive armless tiger? or lost his arms, bitten by a regular tiger, and then exposed to radiation?



Yeah, but this sounds like they're making him semi gadget heavy without going full ironman, which used to kinda be BW's thing in the MCU.
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He lost his arms in a machine, then read a book on gymnastics and plotted to take revenge on all machines
 

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The reason why the MCU works as well as it does is this.

They are not superhero films, they are genre films with Superheros.
 
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I know he's a good actor but Michael b. Jordan's lines in the trailers come off sooo bad. Like overacting or something. That's really my only complaint from everything I've seen. Can't wait!
 
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Someone JUST sold me on Black Widow as the James Bond of the MCU...

That said, I think they're comparing the characters and BP having relationships similar to James Bond and not like BP the movie is going to be a spy thriller... that said this all looks amazing.
 
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James Bond without the misogyny and imperialistic White Male Power Fantasy?

FUCK YEAH!!!
 
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