Lord Almighty I love this thread. When all my friends and associates call me an idiot for not liking Coates' BP you all reaffirm my belief.
And As a thing I want to mention. I really don't like Coates naming of the Maroons and the ship names. Like sure they fit thematically but nothing feels Wakadan. Why would an Isolationist kingdom with its own deep history and beliefs name things after south African Zulu's and Caribbean groups/people.
Wakanda doesnt feel like it is as important as it should be in a book about its King.
"The series Coates co-wrote brought in a number of writers of color new to Marvel — many new to comics, as Coates himself was when he started — including Roxane Gay, Yona Harvey and Evan Narcisse, creating a shared sensibility that built on the sparse framework already present to create a Wakanda, and a Black Panther, that properly spoke to something beyond the white fantasy of the black experience after decades". Seems they forgot that Priest, Hudlin, McDuffie exist abd we're the true architect for T'Challa and Wakanda..
However, it appears T'Challa and Namor have something to say. Gentleman?
Seems Chadwick and Danai have some comments as well:
I do think people tend to forget McGregors contribution to BP (which I suppose is understandable since it was so long ago and wasn't really republished all that often). I think it was Priest who said that 80% of what we saw on the big screen was McGregor. So much of that world building was him.
I hope not but when asked if he'd work on the movie, Coates commented he wouldn't want to mess up what Ryan had going on. So he's at least self aware enough to know that his ideas are bad for the movie but not self aware enough that his ideas have been bad for the comics too.
The brief snipit for the concept of the second movie would say there going away from Coates. Unless they made changes between the release of that info.
I rembmer articles tried to say "A nation under our feet" would be a heavy influence for the movie. Even after it came out that they'd only use some of the visuals. Which amounted to how the suit lights up, force push, and the Kimoyo beads.
Gage actually would be an excellent writer. He's aggressively competent, actually researches his characters and uses villains as meaningful foils.
The only drawback would be, IMO, if that they rarely allow him to make much change or impact. He's always second banana, so could he fly solo and do it well?
Love to find out, though.
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