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M'Baku to be the new Black Panther according to GiantFreakinRobot


Interesting
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/exclusive-winston-duke-black-panther.html

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I don't know how to feel about this. I really don't want Shuri to be Black Panther. But according to this she will be Black Panther in the movie, and give it up to M'baku at the end, because Letitia Wright has the wrong political views. What a mess. They should have recast Black Panther, but barring that the next best move would be to make Killmonger Black Panther.
But the movie will kill off T'challa off screen, make Shuri Black Panther, then make M'Baku black Panther at the end? Sounds like the movie will be a horrible mess.

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He was in Endgame so his character is still in play.

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What has this got to do with anything?

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They are keeping him relevant to maybe be the new BP.

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Because he appeared for half a second in Endgame? Then maybe Howard the Duck is going to be the next Black Panther.

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He is Thor's uncle.

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you're Thor's uncle

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I think Serena Williams would have been a better choice.

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Never heard of this site, could be sketchy.

Killmonger should be the Black Panther, and M'baku should fight him for the title.

That should be Black Panther 2 in my view.

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I'm onboard with this if it's true.

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Me too. It's logical for one of the tribal leaders to take over as king, and for the reconciliation of alienated tribal groups to be a plotline, and Winston Duke is a good enough actor to carry a film. I hope it works, that they can recapture the magic against the odds.

And I reconciled o the fact that Marvel wouldn't dream of using my preferred plotline, which would involve Queen Mother Angela Bassett taking over as Black Panther and Monarch of Wakanda. Bassett is too awesome for words, but Hollywood just can't see a woman of her age as a superhero, even if Downey was their top superhero at just 8 years younger.

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That would had been cool to see.

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8 years is quite a long tine. Especially for a physical role concerning middle age people. RDJ rarely had to do any onscreen fighting. There would he shots of CGI armor with the occasional close up of him inside the armor. He was never gonna be Captain America or anything.

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Uh, you do know that actors don't do their own fighting, right? So seriously, Bassett's age logically shouldn't be an impediment to her taking over as the official superhero, except in the minds of the Hollywood Powers That Be.

She should have been Storm of the X-Men, back in the 1990s, but she wasn't. I guess she missed her chance at being a movie superhero.

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Actors do a lot of fighting. Did you think it was 100% stunt people? Have you never seen actors do training?

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Actors do a lot of training, and invite the behind-the-scenes camera to observe them looking all cool and butch while they train, and they also do a bit of striking fighter poses in front of the camera, but then stunt men do all the hard stuff. The insurance companies that cover movie productions actually insist that the actors don't do anything that might possibly result in an injury, because injuries delay production and cost the insurance companies money.

And as one actor said of the stunt men in these behind-the-scenes documentaries, "Well, it's not like we're going to do it better than the stunt men!".

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I invite you to watch, say, any of the Captain America movies. You will see Chris Evans clearly doing most of the hth fighting. Scenes where he jumps out if a window or does a crazier martial arts move. Then you have guys like Keanu Reeves and Tom Cruise doing all their stunt work like hanging into a plane and stuff and even they admit they’re getting too old to keep it up.

Angela Bassett is in her 60s and as far as I know, has never had an action role. She’s not doing any of that.

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Did you know they can now CGI an actor's face onto a stuntman's body? It really makes the stunts and fight scenes look more realistic, as if the actors were really doing dangerous stuff themselves!

Seriously, actors like to do stuntwork, they like thrills and adventure as much as anyone does, and they sure do love to tell the public they do it all themselves, with what I believe is varying degrees of honesty. But if Tom Cruise breaks his leg then then whole production has to shut down for months, and the studio and their insurers lose money, so the movie studios really don't allow him to do anything that might result in a broken leg.

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You're really choosing a weird hill to die on. Let's take a look at the elevator fight in Winter Soldier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF38tMQ7HaE&ab_channel=UMED

We can clearly see several large men dogpiling Chris Evans and forcing him against the wall. Now, I'm sure it wasn't as violent as it looked but it still required a level of physicality a YOUNG person could endure. Angela Basset is well into her 60s. Do you really want to see a scene like this? The poor gal would break a hip. I think if she were here, she'd tell you you were insane.

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I *think* I know more about movie special effects than you do, and I *definitely* know more about human aging than you do!

Bassett is 63, and FYI a co-worker who is older than 63 look several weeks off this spring to do the Arizona Trail - he backpacked across the desert state from south to north, carrying his pack across hundreds of miles of stony mountains and through scorching deserts. Can you do that at your age? Because humans can still be fit and strong in their sixties, and as Bassett has always been very athletic and isn't starving herself into osteoporosis now, she's probably in far better shape than the average young internet troll, well up to the light demands of being an actor in a film with a top stunt team.

Hollywood fight scenes are very carefully choreographed, and unless Jackie Chan is involved, aren't very strenuous. Did you notice that the elevator fight you linked was made of a series of short takes, most of which were like 1-5 seconds long? A lot of those takes were shot separately, they were literally shot as a couple of seconds of two actors pretending to throw punches, ducking or pretending to be hit, while making strained faces. That's why there were so many cuts in the editing, to keep it from looking as fake as it really is. That's why film editors and special effects nerds get the big bucks, they can make a bunch of actors striking poses look like a really frightening fight.

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So yeah, enjoy that hill.

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LMAO

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It could happen, though I kinda doubt it. It is a popular theory.

But one thing is certain: that site is one of the most untrustworthy there is. Bait city AF. (Then again, fitting on here.)

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M'Baku as played by Winston Duke. He would be perfect. His character was offered it once. Why not again.

I also have another question.
When Killmonger was King and ordered the destruction of the plants that confer superhuman abilities, only one plant was saved. How are they going to confer superhuman abilities now?

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