Black Panther was one of the biggest characters that fans wanted to join the MCU and when Chadwick Boseman joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the King of Wakanda, fans cherished it. Now, with his own solo film scheduled for a 2018 release, it seems that T'Challa's first solo adventure will be a big deal.
Speaking with CBR, Chadwick Boseman talked about how the film is going to be much grittier than other Marvel films.
It’s funny, because on one hand, the Marvel movies that I’ve liked the most are the ones that are funny. I love Ant-Man. But for me, most of the time the darker superhero movies are the ones that I gravitate towards, that I love the most. So I’m glad that I’m not in an Ant-Man. I’m glad that the tone of [Black Panther] may be a little grittier. I just wanted to establish that from the beginning, that that’s what we were doing. That that’s what I intend to do. I feel like we’ll end up in a place that I’ve always wanted to be when I look at superhero movies. Those are the ones I like the most. It’s exciting to do that.
I feel the energy. The image itself opens people’s minds up. You can talk about it all you want, you can have it in a comic book, you can even do an animated series, but when you see real people doing it, it changes something inside of you. It’s going to be a big deal because there’s not just Black people or people of African descent that want to see it, I think everybody wants to see it. That’s the beautiful thing. I truly believe there are more people who want to see it than don’t want to see it, especially after being here.
Black Panther opens on February 16, 2018.