The Black Panther

Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Black Panther. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios, it is the eighteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film is directed by Ryan Coogler, who wrote the script with Joe Robert Cole, and starred Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther, along with Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis. In Black Panther, T'Challa is crowned king of Wakanda after the death of his father, but his sovereignty is questioned by an adversary who plans to abandon the country's isolationist policies and start a world revolution.

Set after the events of Captain America: Civil War, T'Challa, son of the late King T'Chaka, ascends the throne of Wakanda and becomes the Black Panther, but discovers that reigning his nation will be a challenge for him as he You must not only rule and protect your country, but also defeat an old enemy from the past, who threatens the entire world.

Thousands of years ago, five African tribes struggled to be a meteorite that contained vibranium. A warrior ingested a "heart-shaped herb" affected by metal and gained superhuman abilities, becoming the first "Black Panther". He united all the tribes, except the Jabari, to form the nation of Wakanda. Over the centuries, Wakandans used vibranium to develop advanced technologies and better world peoples by posing as a third world country. In 1992, the King of Wakanda T'Chaka visits his brother N'Jobu, who is undercover in Oakland, California. T'Chaka accuses N'Jobu of helping arms dealer Ulysses Klaue steal vibranium from Wakanda. N'Jobu's partner reveals to be Zuri, another undercover wakandiando, and confirms T'Chaka's suspicions.

Today, after the death of T'Chaka, his son T'Challa returns to Wakanda to assume the throne. Together with Okoye, leader of the Dora Milaje regiment, he takes his ex-partner Nakia off an undercover mission in Nigeria so that he can attend his coronation ceremony with his mother Ramonda and his younger sister Shuri. At the ceremony, the leader of the Jabari M'Baku tribe challenges T'Challa for the crown in the combat ritual. T'Challa defeats M'Baku and persuades him to surrender instead of dying.

When Klaue and his accomplice Erik Stevens steal a Wakandan artifact from a London museum, Okoye's lover and friend of T'Challa, W'Kabi, asks the latter to bring Klaue back alive. T'Challa, Okoye, and Nakia travel to Busan, South Korea, where Klaue plans to sell the artifact to CIA agent Everett K. Ross. A shootout ensues and Klaue tries to escape, but is caught by T'Challa, who reluctantly leaves him in Ross's custody. Klaue tells Ross that Wakanda's international image is a front for a technologically advanced civilization. Erik attacks and extracts Klaue, and Ross is seriously injured protecting Nakia. Instead of chasing Klaue, T'Challa takes Ross to Wakanda, where his technology can save him.

While Shuri heals Ross, T'Challa confronts Zuri about N'Jobu. Zuri explains that N'Jobu planned to share Wakanda's technology with people of African descent around the world to help them conquer their oppressors. When T'Chaka arrested N'Jobu, he attacked Zuri, forcing T'Chaka to kill him. T'Chaka ordered Zuri to lie that N'Jobu was missing, and leaves N'Jobu's American son to maintain the lie. This boy grew up to be Stevens, an American black ops soldier who adopted the name "Killmonger". Meanwhile, Killmonger kills Klaue and brings his body to Wakanda. He is brought before the tribe elders, revealing his identity and claiming the throne. Killmonger challenges T'Challa to ritual combat, where he kills Zuri, defeats T'Challa, and throws him over a waterfall to his supposed death. After ingesting the heart-shaped herb, Killmonger orders the rest to be burned, but Nakia extracts one first. Killmonger, with the support of W'Kabi and his army, prepares to distribute shipments of Wakandan weapons to operatives around the world..

Nakia, Shuri, Ramonda, and Ross flee to the Jabari tribe in the mountains for help. There they find a T'Challa in a coma, rescued by a group of Jabari fishermen in gratitude for sparing M'Baku's life. Cured by Nakia's herb, T'Challa returns to fight Killmonger, who has his own Black Panther outfit. W'Kabi and his army battle Shuri, Nakia, and the Dora Milaje, while Ross remotely pilots a jet and shoots down planes carrying vibranium weapons. M'Baku and the Jabari arrive as reinforcements for T'Challa. When confronted by Okoye, W'Kabi and his army surrender. Fighting in Wakanda's vibranium mine, T'Challa destabilizes Killmonger's suit and stabs him. Killmonger refuses to be cured, choosing to die free rather than live in prison.

T'Challa sets up a relief center in the building where N'Jobu died, for Nakia and Shuri to run. In a scene between credits, T'Challa appears before the United Nations to reveal the true nature of Wakanda to the world. In a post-credit scene, Shuri helps Bucky Barnes recover, who is currently under the name "White Wolf."

Black Panther had its world premiere at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on January 29, 2018. The premiere featured a purple carpet flanked by women dressed as Dora Milaje, while Coogler, cast members, and other guests wore African clothing to the Marvel's request that those in attendance wear "regalia", honoring the film's African setting. Prior to the premiere screening, Coogler received an extensive standing ovation before announcing the cast of the film.

Black Panther opened in the UK, Hong Kong and Taiwan on February 13, in South Korea on February 14, and in the United States on February 16, where the film was screened in 4,020 theaters. , being more than 3,200 of them in 3D, 404 in IMAX, more than 660 in premium large format, and more than 200 D-Box locations.

Additionally, Black Panther was the first MCU film to be converted to ScreenX, a 270-degree immersive format, which was screened in more than 101 locations in eight countries. The film opened in most markets on its first opening weekend, including a "transnational premiere" in Africa, marking the first time for a Disney film. Black Panther was originally scheduled to open on November 3, 2017. , before moving to July 6, 2018 to accommodate Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). It was then moved to the final date of February to accommodate Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).

Black Panther had its premiere in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on April 18, 2018, marking the first public screening of a film since cinemas were banned in the kingdom in the early 1980s, after ultra-conservative religious standards were introduced. in 1979.

The ban was lifted in December 2017 by Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salmán. The film was screened in a newly built 620-seat leather theater owned by AMC Theaters in Riyadh's King Abdullah business district, with the original intention of being a symphony hall. The regional distributor Disney's Italia Film revealed that 40 seconds had been cut from the film, in line with cuts made to the film in the region.

Awwad Alawwad, Minister of Culture and Information of Saudi Arabia, and Adam Aron, CEO of AMC Entertainment, attended the premiere along with other diplomats and industry experts; No one from the cast or production team was present. Men and women sat together in the room, after the Saudi government calmed down enforcement of laws prohibiting interaction between unrelated men and women, Black Panther screened there for five days before Avengers: Infinity War aired. April 26.

Black Panther returned to 250 AMC Theaters in the United States from February 1-7, 2019, free of charge, with two screenings of the film in each theater for the week. The weekly return was in honor of the start of Black History Month, the accolade of two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Disney also gave a $ 1.5 million grant to the United Negro College Fund.