Director Terry Gilliam says that he “hated” Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther and disliked the attention the Marvel Studios film received from the media.
The conversation about Marvel Studios’ domination over the box office has only just subsided after Martin Scorsese’s comments made the headlines, and director Terry Gilliam is the latest filmmaker to criticize superhero genre by stating he “hated” Black Panther. In 2017, director Terry Gilliam finally managed to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground after 30 years of attempting to get the film made, with Adam Driver starring alongside Jonathan Pryce.
But the legendary director recently took shots at Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther in an interview with IndieWire. Terry Gilliam claims that Ryan Coogler and the crew behind the film never went to Africa before also mentioning how much he hated the media attention surrounding the film. The director dismissed the importance of the film by suggesting the crew just got a stylist for “some African pattern fabrics.” Take a look at director Terry Gilliam criticizing Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther below.
“I hated ‘Black Panther.’ It makes me crazy. It gives young black kids the idea that this is something to believe in. Bullshit. It’s utter bullshit. I think the people who made it have never been to Africa. They went and got some stylist for some African pattern fabrics and things. But I just, I hated that movie, partly because the media were going on about the importance of bullshit.”
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Marvel Studios “Black Panther” follows T’Challa who, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king. But when a powerful old enemy reappears, T’Challa’s mettle as king—and Black Panther—is tested when he is drawn into a formidable conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people and their way of life.
Directed by Ryan Coogler from a script he co-wrote with Joe Robert Cole, Black Panther stars Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Sterling K. Brown, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, with Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis.
Black Panther is now available on Digitial HD, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-Ray, and DVD.
Source: Indiewire
