Black Panther

2018 · 134 min · dir. Ryan Coogler

Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character T'Challa / Black Panther. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 18th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Ryan Coogler from a screenplay he wrote with Joe Robert Cole, and stars Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther alongside Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Sterling K. Brown, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis. In the film, T'Challa is crowned king of the African nation Wakanda following his father's death, but he is soon challenged for the throne by Killmonger (Jordan), who plans to abandon Wakanda's isolationist policies and use the country's resources to begin a global revolution. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.