5 Reasons The Black Panther Movie Is Almost a Guaranteed Win

Have you seen Captain America: Civil War? Did you like it? You did? Good. Since you’re up to speed (if you’re not, stop reading this and go see Civil War posthaste), I don’t even have to go into a whole diatribe about how Black Panther was one of the show stealers that made this movie what we needed to kick off our summer. I realize we’ve been here before with movies that blerds bet it all on that didn’t meet specifications (I’m looking directly at you, Red Tails), but this is one of those cases where we’ve been given every hint that the impending Black Panther film, scheduled for release July 6, 2018, has a fighting chance of being the hero we deserve. These are probably the five indicators. [title type=”h4″]1) Ryan Coogler[/title]Have you seen Creed? What am I saying — you have enough wisdom and intellect to have found this website, you’ve likely seen Creed. Did you enjoy Creed? Well, guess what? That was Ryan Coogler. If you have the guy who made reached peak blackness with a franchise based on an Italian ex-loan shark enforcer who became a boxing champ (presumably through P90x and white privilege), then you hold onto him by any and all means necessary.

After basically talking themselves out of the opportunity to work with Ava DuVernay, lightning really wasn’t supposed to strike twice for Marvel. Any other studio would have had to pay penance by getting stuck with Tyler Perry signed for six movies where Madea’s house is the new Avengers Mansion, but here we are. A young,…