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Tuesday 25 July 2017
Comic-Con goes wild for ‘Black Panther’ at Marvel panel

By LINDSEY BAHR cepting a sketchy vibra-
AP Film Writer nium trade between Andy
SAN DIEGO (AP) — “Black Serkis’ Klaw and Martin
Panther” stole the show Freeman’s Everett. Set in
Saturday night at Marvel an elegant, Japanese-
Studios’ Comic-Con pre- inspired casino, the deal
sentation, outshining the goes haywire and T’Challa
Ant-Man, Thor and even and his security detail (Lu-
the ultimate Avengers pita Nyong’o and Danai
team-up, “Infinity War.” Gurira) jump to action in
Fans went wild for the ex- their evening gowns to re-
clusive sneak peek at the trieve the precious goods.
upcoming superhero pic, The clip was followed by
featuring star Chadwick the trailer for the film from
Boseman T’Challa inter- “Creed” director Ryan

Chadwick Boseman, from left, Lupita Nyong’o, and Michael B. Jordan attend the “Marvel” panel
on day 3 of Comic-Con International on Saturday, July 22, 2017, in San Diego.
Associated Press

Coogler and the 6,500 souls read X-Men, I read Spider- ter on Sakaar where he is
in the audience erupted Man,” Coogler said. pitted against the Hulk in
into deafening cheers at Then he started looking for a Gladiator tournament. In
the sight of T’Challa morph- a character that looked this film, the Hulk refuses to
ing into the Black Panther like him and he stumbled turn back into Bruce Ban-
suit. on Black Panther. ner, but he is learning to
The film finds T’Challa re- Marvel Studios also teased speak, albeit slowly.
turning to his home of its third “Thor” film, “Thor: “He has the vocabulary of
Wakanda after the death Ragnarok ,” which has a two year old,” Mark Ruf-
of his father, the king. quite a different and more falo said.
“He’s still mourning his fa- irreverent tone from previ- Marvel also unveiled the
ther’s death. It’s a transition ous installments, and hits “Avengers: Infinity War”
period that gets interrupt- theaters in November. footage that the studio
ed, and he’s struggling with “I’ve played this charac- had previously shown to
the type of king he wants to ter five times,” Chris Hem- audiences at the Disney
be,” said Boseman. sworth told the audience. fan convention, D23, and
Coogler, Boseman, “Me, personally, made a few announce-
Nyong’o, Gurira, Serkis and I got a little bored and ments regarding upcom-
more of the cast were on thought we’ve got to try ing films: Michelle Pfeiffer
hand in San Diego to talk something a little different will play Evangeline Lilly’s
about the film, out Feb, 16, ... Push the envelope, take character’s mom Janet
2019. it to another level.” van Dyne in the “Ant-Man”
Nyong’o described her So, they cut his hair, take sequel “Ant Man and the
character as a spy who his hammer away and pit Wasp” and “Captain Mar-
goes undercover to report him against Jeff Goldblum vel,” Marvel’s first female-
back to Wakanda about and Cate Blanchett. When driven superhero movie,
what is going on in the rest Blanchett’s Hela, the god- will be set in the 1990s.
of the world. dess of death, invades As- As Marvel Studios head
“Wakanda is an isolated gard, Kevin Feige described it:
nation,” Nyongo said. “The Thor finds himself on the It’s so long ago that Samu-
world does not need to run and under the control el L. Jackson’s Nick Fury will
know what’s going on in of Goldblum’s Grandmas- have two eyes.q
Wakanda.”
Coogler said he’d always
had a fondness for comic
books, and found “Black
Panther” at a pivotal mo-
ment.
“I grew up as black kid in
the Bay Area and grew
up with comic books and
it didn’t matter what color
the superheroes were. I