Chadwick Boseman had the good fortune this past May to star in $1 billion blockbuster Captain America: Civil War, but he's not taking the opportunity to gloat about how the movie critically and commercially topped Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Instead, when Radio Times asked why he believes things when wrong with the DC Comics adaptation, he explained that he belives there were just too "many people deciding something," and that there wasn’t "a clear voice from the director."
"Sometimes when you watch movies you see that the producers are saying something, someone else is saying something, the directors are saying something. And sometimes, it doesn’t work. I don’t know if that’s why it doesn’t resonate, if it’s because maybe the director didn’t get his cut, I have no way of knowing that." Boseman added that at Marvel, "the directors are very much making the movie." We know that the studio always has the final cut, but he still makes some interesting points.
Regardless of the reaction to Batman v Superman, it doesn't sound like Marvel or director Ryan Coogler are shying away from a darker tone for Black Panther, as the actor teased: "There’s a mystery and a mystique to [Black Panther]. So all those things to me sort of present a recipe for a darker drama than you might normally see." We'll see how that pans out when T'Challa's solo outing hits in 2018!