Before I start I want to thank everyone for their patience and feedback. Getting the Black Panther Movie Right is something that I take very seriously seeing how he is my favorite Superhero and as many know the greatest Black Hero ever created. I'm not sure my story writing is as good as my casting. Definitely not as good as my art. Regardless, this is my take on his movie.
The movie starts with a young T'Challa (Malcolm David Kelley) running scared through the jungle. He is not running from something but he's looking searching for his father as we hear violent screams and sounds of fighting in the background. "I will have the vibranium T'Chaka, the progression of science is far more important than your damn ego or your precious country's honor. Goodbye your majesty" The young T'challa get's to an open area and stops in shock. "Nooooooo" Older T'Challa (Derek Luke) jumps out of bed. Sweating to death in the darkness of his hotel suite. A naked (but we cant see it in the dark) Ororo Munroe (Lauren London) gets up from beside him.
- Another one? She says.
- They keep getting worse...(Frustrated) Why can't I remember?
- So tense... (as she begins to massage his shoulders) Does this help?
- Ahhh yeah right there. He answers
- Right here? (smiling, as she reaches where shes not supposed to)
He jumps back over her playing but once directly on top calms down.
- What? she says
- One day you'll be my queen.
- I don't even like you... with sarcasm as they begin playing in their sheets again.
The next morning he is getting ready to leave while Ororo is still asleep. He kisses her on her forehead and leaves. As he arrives outside the entrance. His sister (Kerry Washington) greets him with a huge hug.
- T'Challa she screams.
- Sister... he answers as servants take his luggage from him.
- So this is what America looks like!
They both get into the limo that drives off and passes in front of a certain Baxter building.
Later as he arrives into Wakandan airspace.
- Wow, our home land has changed. he says to Shuri
- You have no idea..She replies. Entering the palace he is greeted by his mother (Alfre Woodard)
- My son... she says in joy as she runs to him
- Mother I have so much to tell you
- We will have time for stories later. Right now the counsel is awaiting you in the other room.
- Looks like it's right to business... he says to himself. As T'Challa enters the room he sees the five elders sitting in a half circle, then his older step brother Hunter(Chiwetel Ejiofor). The counsel tells him that because he has been educated by the outside world they need to know that he can be trusted and is indeed ready to claim the throne. They tell him that since his departure there has been an uprising in the people. A vigilante who calls herself Panthera has brainwashed the people into thinking that there is such a thing as a Wakandan secret police and that this police force is victimizing the people of our Kingdom. They tell T'Challa that if he can bring down the rebels they will give him his crown.T'Challa must now team up with his brother, Military leader and bring her in.
Being the genius that he is T'Challa sets the perfect trap. But once he confronts Panthera in an amazing fight, he finds out it that Panthera is none other that his sister Shuri. She tries to convince him that the people truly are oppressed. That this secret police force has been killing anyone that tries to enter a certain part the jungle and that she believes they are doing something illegal there. T'Challa is forced to bring someone in so Shuri's friend volunteers to play Panthera.
That night while T'Challa is sleeping, he begins to have the nightmare again. This time he sees his father when he gets to the open area. T'Chaka (Djimon Hounsou) is bleeding to death. The young T'Challa runs to him and kneels beside his body. His father takes his hand and says "My son... Be Strong, Be Wise and Be of a Pure Heart...This is the way of the Panther." Then dies. T'Challa jumps out of bed again and frightens Shuri who snuck in his room to take him out.
- What was that about? (T'Challa doesn't answer) Well The Black Panther is a creature of the night and so is his people. she says
As they sneek out the window they are seen but don't know it by none other than Hunter.
Shuri shows her brother the city and T'Challa begins to see Wakanda from a totally different perspective. She then takes him to the underground base of her resistance. T'Challa is impressed ad touched as he sees the amount of people. Many are beaten up, wounded and scared from all different encounters with the Secret Police.
- But why do you dress up and call yourself Panthera? He askes her
- The Black Panther is more than just the embodiment of a warrior cult that has served as our religious, political and military head since its inception. The Black Panther is the embodiment of the ideals of a people. And these people want to be free to walk their land.
Meanwhile Hunter is entering his secret facility in the jungle. Where slaves are mining vibranium.
- Is it done? he asks the guard
- Yes sir. he replies as Hunter enters the lab. Then we see the Panther armor.
- Pleases you doesn't it? A complete body armor made out of pure Vibranium. says a voice in the back. Hunter turns around to face...
- Professor Ulysses Klaw, seems you kept your part of the bargain. Hunter replies.
- I always do. Just as I kept my word to your father.
- Yes, you never explained the origin of your relationship.
- Bahh nothing special, we were just good friends. he says with a smirk
Returns to The resistance base as T'Challa is leaving.
- Look Shuri I'll take care of this...
- Good cauz we could use you on our side
- No I'll take care of this but you need to promise me you'll stop this resistance.
- What? After all you saw you want me to just give up?
- Trust me sister... Do you trust me?
- Yes
- Now promise you'll send these people home and return the weapons...
- I promise.
- Good. He leaves
The next morning. T'Challa goes into the throne room and puts on the panther suit and heads out on his motorcycle. He prowls the jungle beating people up until he gets to the facility. When he enters the camp Hunter is waiting for him.
- I've been waiting for this a long time little brother.
- Hunter? ... You're the one behind the Secret police? Hunter attacks and our second epic face off begins. After T'Challa beats the hell out of Hunter and he finds himself on top he asks...
- Why? Why Hunter?
- Because you're a murdering bastard and you don't deserve to be king.
- What? Hunter beats T'Challa off and begins delivering some devastating blows. Every time he hits T'Challa we flash back to his nightmare.
Young T'Challa is hunting with his father but then his father hears something and leaves saying: "stay here T'Challa". T'Challa runs after him but looses him. "Get off our land Klaw" The screams begin again. The boy is running and stops in an open area. "Father!!!" T'Chaka says his last words then dies. The boy looks up and sees a face. The man vanishes and teen Hunter arrives and sees T'Challa covered with his father's blood.
- You killed him... You killed your own father and for what a crown? T'Challa snaps out of it but is now bleeding like crazy on the ground.
- I didn't do it. It was a white man.
- What? Hunter replied
- I heard father call him Klaw says T'Challa chocking on his blood. Hunter gets up shocked.
- I...I can't believed I let him fool me. Hunter gets himself together and leaves after Klaw.
Later that day at the palace. Hunter walks dragging himself into the elders counsel room where T'Challa just finished explaining what happened.
- Forgive me brother I've failed you, father and Wakanda. then dies in a pool of blood. The elders are shocked. T'Challa is clearly their only chance. They present to him the heart shaped herb (that grows off a plant that is not fed by water but panthers blood). Then they give him his brothers armor and the Ebony Blade and sends him off. His mother stops him and says: "Be Strong, Be Wise and Be of a Pure Heart...This is the way of the Panther. Do not seek revenge, if you do, you will surely die. Do it for your people. This man has taken many lives." She seals it with a kiss and lets him go.
This is the third and final battle that has to be monumental. T'Challa wins by using one of Klaw's vibranium-powered, sound-based weapons to blow the one on his right hand off. He is then capture and handed over to the gouverment of Netherlands to be prosecuted for his crime.
Movie finishes off as we see Tony Stark in the crowd at the Black Panther's press conference in the Netherlands capital.
So off course there is a character that wasn't on "Getting the Black Panther Movie Right". So here is Chiwetel Ejiofor the actor I picked for Hunter, T'Challa's older step brother.
comments? anyone