Ryan Coogler Says Black Panther Will Be His Most Personal Movie To Date

When making his independent film Fruitvale Station, Ryan Coogler had to worry about having enough [...]

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When making his independent film Fruitvale Station, Ryan Coogler had to worry about having enough money to finish, getting into a film festival, having it liked, being bought, and being distributed. After going through all of that and having his first studio film, Creed, become a big hit with the box office, critics and fans of the Rocky series, he looks at Marvel's Black Panther as a blessing.

Coogler's biggest challenge will be making a Black Panther film that incorporates his style and also fits seamlessly into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

"It's a specific challenge," Coogler told Fast Company. "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."

It was that same personal touch that helped make Creed so special. "With making Creed, I wasn't thinking I was gonna make a 'black Rocky' movie," he explained, "it was more that I wanted to make a movie about what me and my dad were going through, and my dad's favorite character was Rocky, and it was kind of an allegory for us."

Black Panther will slash into theaters on February 16, 2018, and will start shooting in early 2017. It is being directed and co-written by Creed and Fruitvale Station filmmaker, Ryan Coogler.

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