30 Things We Learned from Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” Commentary

Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects posted 30 Things We Learned from Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther Commentary.    Here are three of my favorites…

15.   T’Challa’s conversation with Zuri (Forest Whitaker) where he gets the truth about his father and uncle is the most important scene in the film to Coogler. Francis Ford Coppola agrees, and when he watched an early cut of the film he immediately asked to watch this scene again.

 

7.    The attack on the African kidnappers in their column of cars/trucks was filmed on a set in Atlanta the size of a football field, and the brought in over 150k plants and trees and 20 tons of dirt.

 

11.    While they were scouting landscapes and locales in South Africa Coogler was introduced to a rhinoceros named M20 at a wildlife preserve, “and he was the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen in my life.” He heard later that they had to remove its horn to protect the creature from poachers. W’Kabi’s (Daniel Kaluuya) rhino is named M20 after the real-life one, but in the film it’s actually a horse he’s feeding the apple to which they then overlayed with a CG rhino.