*BAM* *POW* Comic Book Movie News Aint Just For Kids Anymore

[Lumenskir]

I did hear they were doing an Antman movie as well, has there been any further word on that yet? I'm somewhat less enthusiastic about him really.

In the article it says that while Edgar Wright was starting to work on the script, he's also busy working on the next Edgar Wright-Simon Pegg-Nick Frost movie this year, which would push the script for Ant Man back. I think they already have a Black Panther script ready, so it's just a matter of casting, director choice, re-edits, etc.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Hawk

That aside I'm actually quite looking forward to a Black Panther movie. I never really knew much about him until I watched EMH but he is actually pretty cool.

Wakanda developed technology to make awesome superhero movies centuries ago.

[Amake]

I'm mostly excited about Days of Future Past. It'll be easier to watch the movie than find anyone willing to sell the comic, for one thing. (I sold mine.)

Let me run down some spoilers if you don't care to not know what happens in the comic: Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Iceman, Beast, Angel, Banshee, Polaris, Xavier, the whole Fantastic Four, probably all of Avengers, Spider-man, Dr Doom, Daredevil, Black Panther, the Hulk and even Ghost Rider are dead before the story starts. Franklin Richards is blown up, Magneto sacrifices himself, Wolverine is disintegrated, Storm is staked and Colossus is stomped. And they don't get better! This time travel plot creates a pocket continuity that allows the authors to really go nuts, and they do so with style; this is pretty much the Dark Knight Returns of X-men.

Will it work as a movie? Probably better than as a comic. Claremont and Byrne fill about half the pages with text to cram the story into 40 pages, so there's a lot of stuff to expand on and I imagine they'll have to to make the movie run more than fifteen minutes. More is better, right?

[Lumenskir]

Wakanda developed technology to make awesome superhero movies centuries ago.

I tried to read up on Black Panther on Wikipedia, but it's got a bad case of For Fans By Fans. He's basically African Batman, with a fictional country as his Bat Cave and the country's military as his Alfred, plus Hamlet-as-origin, right?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Pretty much yeah, though without the angst or grittyness of Batman. He also tends to have Stark level (or better) technology.

[Premmy]

Originally Posted by Lumenskir

I tried to read up on Black Panther on Wikipedia, but it's got a bad case of For Fans By Fans. He's basically African Batman, with a fictional country as his Bat Cave and the country's military as his Alfred, plus Hamlet-as-origin, right?

African Captain America batman

[Intern Nin]

Originally Posted by Premmy

African Captain America batman

African Captain America Batman Aquaman. Who dresses like a cat.

[Lumenskir]

African Captain America Batman Aquaman.

Helllllo, T'Challa!

[Premmy]

That image says Michael Jordan... tha fuck?

[The Sevenshot Kid]

His name is Michael B. Jordan. He was on Friday Night Lights and Chronicle. Not my first choice for Black Panther but a good one.

I would prefer to have John Boyega as T'Challa and Chiwetel Ejiofor as T'Chaka.