John Boyega to meet about joining the cast of Marvel's Black Panther

John Boyega Could Potentially Join The Cast Of Marvel’s Black Panther Movie

No pressure, Ryan Coogler, but Black Panther is going to be one of the greatest representations of blackness in film of all time.

According to HeroicHollywood, Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor John Boyega might just be the next black actor to join the cast of the HIGHLY-anticipated Marvel flick.

Lupita Nyong’o and Creed star/Coogler muse Michael B. Jordan recently joined as the female lead and villain respectively. Hot, unconfirmed scuttlebutt is telling me Star Wars: The Force Awakens star John Boyega may be meeting for the film as well. Regardless if Boyega joins, that’s already an amazing cast, as part of the stated goal of casting 90 percent of it with African or African-American actors. Production is scheduled to begin January 2017.

If they add any more poppin’ black actors to this thing then we’re just gonna camp out at the movie theater until the 2018 release date.

Director Ryan Coogler spoke to FastCompany about the challenges he faces in both writing and directing Black Panther:

It’s a specific challenge. What Marvel’s doing, and what you see a lot of studios doing now that Marvel has done it so successfully, is making content that exists in a particular universe, where the characters tie in and crossover, and I think that’s a great creative challenge to me—to make this movie as personal as possible. It’s going to be my most personal movie to date, which is crazy to say, but it’s completely the case. I’m obsessed with this character and this story right now, and I think it’s going to be very unique and still fit into the overall narrative that they’re establishing. I grew up as a comic book fan, and the same things used to happen in the comic books. You’d have Wolverine’s books, and they’d be so much darker and more brutal than the X-Men books, but they’d still fit in when you open the pages of the X-Men book. It’s new to movies, but it’s not new to storytelling.

The theater is gonna be CRAZY when this movie comes out. Blackness all up in the dancerie. WE CAN’T WAIT!

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