Saturday, 26 November 2022

THE RETURN OF BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER

 



It was a long wait but the wish of millions of BlackPanther fans, who have been asking for a sequel since 2018 , has now come true! Marvel Studios, which created this superhero in 2018, has recently released the new episode of the award-winning saga: Wakanda Forever!

After the premature death of Chadwick Boseman, the charismatic King T'Challa/Black Panther in 2018 three-Oscar film who died from colon cancer at only 43 in 2020, Ryan Coogler and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige discussed whether or not to go ahead with the story of the superhero monarch who fights to save his technologically advanced world from enemies who wanted to go back to a primitive society.

The filmmakers had to rethink how a sequel would work without his  main character, T’Challa. They said “ There’s only one Chadwick and he’s not with us.  Our king, unfortunately, has died in real life, not just in fiction, and we are taking time to see how we continue the story and what we do to honor this chapter of what has happened to us that was so unexpected, so painful, so terrible, really.”  Marvel Studios to honour and respect Chadwick ‘s legacy will not recast the character, but they decided to  explore the world of Wakanda’s characters introduced in the first film.

Lupita Nyong’o, who played Nakia in the first film and will reprise the role  in the new film,  declared  It’s gonna be different, of course, without our king,  to go back into that world, but I know that all of us are dedicated to reimagining or carrying on his legacy in this new Black Panther and Ryan Coogler has some really, really exciting ideas that I look forward to bringing to life with the rest of the family."

After the shock of Chadwick’s disappearance, we wondered what to do”,  Feige explained in the international press conference streaming with the cast and director. Ryan put all of himself into the project. He had been working for a year on a script that featured T'Challa so when Chad left us, he decided to turn Black Panther into a celebration of him and Wakanda.

OFFICIAL TRAILER

Rhianna tribute to Chadwick Boseman

The release of the movie, in which the role of women is very important,  marks also a pleasant and surprising return to music of Rihanna. She has been away for 6 years from the music world to deal with make up and fashion.  Now on the occasion of the release of the new Marvel film  and to honour t he life and career of Chadwick Boseman, she  decided to return to singing. “Lift me up”is  an emotional ballad written in tribute to actor Chadwick Boseman.

"Lift Me Up" is  Rihanna's first new song since her 2016 album "Anti".  In this celebrative  song - written by Rihanna herself with singer Tems, director Ryan Coogler and the composer of the film soundtrack Ludwig Goransson -  sorrow, comfort  and hope mix together. It is an invocation not to be abandoned,  to be close to people you love much, to remain safe  and sound,  to be enveloped by the warmth of their love, even when they are not there physically. It is a prayer of love, expressing  the human  need  to feel safe,  especially in this world so full of dangers such as war or disease. The music video is directed by Autumn Durald Arkapaw and  features scenes with Rihanna on the beach while a bonfire burns nearby, with some sequences from the movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

RHIANNA'S SONG FOR THE MOVIE

Wakanda Forever: synopsis

Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T'Challa's death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with Nakia and Everett Ross to forge a new path for their beloved kingdom.

AGNESE, 4sc 

No comments:

Post a Comment