Let me set the record straight for IESB and everyone else.
Fox isn't gonna have Black Panther the way things are set up. Marvel has a contract with Merill Lynch where the movie rights for Black Panther and now 11 other properties were used as collateral against a 525 million line of credit. Black Panther is under total Marvel control and Fantastic Four is at Fox. There will be no Black Panther in the Fantastic Four. I think Dijion made it quite clear he's gonna be in a comic book trilogy...not in just the 3rd film of another franchise.
So if it is Black Panther it'll be his own set of films with a budget between 65-180 million per film. Most likely in the middle of that range.
Edit: Oh and John Singleton is up for directing not Tim Story.
http://www.blackfilm.com/20070720/features/johnsingletonnews.shtml
I'm surprised IESB didn't edit the guys thoughts who tried to express his opinion. LOL
Dude, I'm sorry, but your getting an awkward cyber hug on my part.
I'm just soooooo happy FOX won't touch BP, they'd probably think it smart to "ghetto" him up so todays youth could relate, have him acting more like Barracuda and T'Challa
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Plus John Singleton is a very competent director, so thats a plus.
If Tintin is his Dream Project I'll laugh.
I'd have to second that opinion. Tintin being in anyones dreams makes me laugh.
If BP is his dream project I'd laugh too...
I suppose Tintin has it's own potential, but I'd imagine BP being a much more interesting film, and represents a proud African nation, with a courageous leader, a hero who isn't pure blackplotation, someone little black kids would probably enjoy looking up too when their with friends will have Nordic Gods, and almost every other hero being with.
People around the world know Tintin more than Black Panther.
In case you don't know what Tintin, it's a Belgian children book about a teen reporter/detective who goes around the world solving problem. A hit throught the world except for the US.
I rather see Chiwetel to be BP, anyway. Chiwetel is 10 years younger than Djimon (43) and has better martial arts talents.
I read Tintin as a kid, I'm a bilingual guy from Quebec so it was inevitable... Yet I really don't see the appeal, didn't like the drawings, the stories and characters didn't appeal, they seemed so bland and boring compared to what America had. Even other bd's like Asterix and Obelix were more fun, or Le petit Spirou.
I'd of like to have a convert of Tintin in the Congo, too Tintin in Wakanda
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He is aging, but dare I say really darked skinned black dudes who shave their heads look younger longer. I don't know anything about his martial arts, but I'm guessing he's gotten a crash course for Never Back Down, and they could expand from there.
Plus if he wears the mask, you could have someone else doing the very acrobatic stuff.
What people know around the world doesn't equate to a dream project. Just going off his own quote Black Panther seems to fit. Maybe I"m reading too much into his words but considering he's already an accomplished actor I can't imagine a co-starring role in a childrens film is a dream project. Does the Tinin franchise have an African American character in the LEAD role??? If not I'm sure he has higher aspirations. Ok I'm adding a poll to this thread.
Actually the Tintin in the Congo storyline has been criticized as having racist and colonial views.
Although I'm sure BP has been accused of the same, the story of an African nation which was never successfully colonized differs from a character with a storyline that apparently promoted colonial views.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems less logical for an African man to aspire to play second fiddle in a Tintin movie then for him to participate in a project that'll finally have Black people as the hero's without there having to be a punchline.
