OK. Comic book nerds have been complaining (especially me) for a long time that we need a Black Panther film, especially with the success of The Avengers and talks of stand-alone films for characters like Hawkeye, Black Widow and Hulk. With Hawkeye and Black Widow it seems now like a time to start introducing new characters. They gave us Winter Soldier, soon we'll have Ultron and Ant-Man and the Guardians of the Galaxy. However, alot of people don't know the neccessity for a Black Panther movie.
Reason #1 The Rights
Marvel, Fox and Sony need to get the Black Panther rights in order. BP has been seen in Fantastic Four, The Avengers and even Spider-Man. That's three different franchises spread across three different corporations. So they need to decide this now so we know if Marvel will make the movie or if Fox gets some BP like the Quicksilver rights. It's hard to build seperate universes (which is a dumb idea to me) with use of the same characters in all the franchises. I would personally love to see BP go to Marvel, which is the most likely case.They've dropped hints but nothing seems in the works yet and I would say we deserve a BP movie before Avengers 3 (same goes for Miss Marvel). They truly have the edge here as they can pretty much throw any random comic, say we're gonna make it into a movie and people will buy it because that's how much of a role Marvel has been on lately.
Reason #2 There's No Time Like the Present
Cap is at an all-time high as far as popularity and I would love to see Chris Evans keep portraying my personal favorite superhero for a long time before Bucky takes the torch. That being said Black Panther has went toe-to-toe with Cap and even lives where the vinbranium for his shield is located, which is Africa. Black Panther is an amazing athlete and BP vs. Cap would be amazing to see brought to film possibly in Cap 3. T'Challa is capable of going toe-to-toe with many Marvel superheroes. He's like Tony Stark and Steve Rogers bundled up so even seeing him and Cap team up to face a greater enemy would be entertaining. Also, with black characters popping up more and more (Human Torch, Electro, Falcon) it seems like the perfect time to bring T'Challa in.
Reason #3 We Only Care About the Important Stuff
Marvel has reportedly been looking for actors in South Africa to play BP but I feel like that's a waste on Marvel's
part. As far as just getting a stand-alone film, BP is in the same league as Deadpool at this point. Cast an actor already. Black Panther wears a full-body suit and you can literally see none of him while he's got it on. Every fancast for BP someone says "he's not dark enough" or "he's too old". I honestly think if you cast Michael Jai White as BP and just used a stunt double for all the hard work we'd be happy. That may jsut be me because I do feel the same way about Deadpool. But I have noticed a pattern. With fully-costumed heroes like BP or Deadpool we just need an unmasked actor and their voice. I know alot of people who wouldn't care in the slightest if PeeWee Herman was Deadpool's stunt double (just exaggeration) as long as Ryan Reynolds was the voice and was there if the character took off the mask. Same with Black Panther so Marvel shoudl just stop beating around the bush for perfection when the answer is clear as day.
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