Ryan Coogler In Negotiations To Direct Black Panther…

…OR AKA I’VE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE… …OR AKA STOP PLAYING WITH MY EMOTIONS, MARVEL. This is one of those cautiously optimistic news breaks. This is one of those good news bad news scenarios. The why and how of this are pretty simple: Because of this, a Black Panther movie is is a pretty hot topic right now.

And because of this, Ryan Coogler is a pretty hot name right now.

So yes, you should be excited as a Wakandan on New Years that there’s a chance that one of the best young directors in Hollywood who is a young Black man coming off of directing one of the best films of the year in Creed, might be directing a movie about the most heralded Black comic book hero starring one of the best actors on the planet, who too, happens to be a Black man. That last run-on sentence was so Black it rejected the periods I tried to place there. But… Remember that talented Black director who also happens to have a successful movie that’s Black AF under their belt? Yeah, Ava DuVernay originally got the call from Marvel to helm the Marvel project. She ultimately walked away from the table citing some “creative differences” with Marvel on how to sculpt the film. So…What happened?

[divider type=”space_thin”] After building up the equity from not only Creed but from his launching pad of Fruitvale Station, it would be hard to imagine that Coogler is taking any reservations in how he negotiates with Marvel in directing Black Panther. But if, Marvel is in fact having a revision and decid…