Ava Duvernay is to direct Marvel’s planned 2018 movie Black Panther based on their famous comic-book hero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Ava Duvernay is to direct Black Panther for Marvel
Breaking: We’re hearing from the MCU [via Vanity Fair] that Marvel has officially offered the directing job on their planned Black Panther movie to Selma director Ava DuVernay. The MCU Exchange are reporting exclusively that Duvernay has now officially signed on the dotted line for the lucrative gig.
The film already has a released sate set for July 6, 2018 with the title character expected to show up in next year’s Captain America: Civil War.
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“…part of the desire to hire DuVernay this early in the process (more than three years before Black Panther’s release date of July 6, 2018) is to have her on the set of Captain America: Civil War, which will feature the first appearance of both Black Panther and his home country of Wakanda. The only hint of possible Wakanda scenes filmed so far was a casting call sheet that made it’s way online a few weeks back, which sought African/African-American’s to serve as laboratory scientists extras. However the latest set photo from Civil War shows a building labeled Institute For Infectious Diseases (which, as we detail, is most likely set in Uganda or the previously established location of Nigeria), and so these extras are probably a part of the scenes filming there.”
Marvel’s Black Panther
The character of Black Panther was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and first appeared in Fantastic Four #52 in July 1966. Chadwick Boseman will play the character in the upcoming movies. Boseman has previously wowed audiences with solid performances in the sports drama 42, and in the James Brown biopic Get On Up.
