NEW PHOTOS FROM MARVEL'S 'BLACK PANTHER' WITH CHADWICK BOSEMAN, MICHAEL B. JORDAN, DANAI GURIRA, ANGELA BASSETT, LUPITA NYONG'O

'BLACK PANTHER' 

FIRST PHOTOS FROM WAKANDA

The panther roars next February!

I must admit the first trailer released earlier this summer looks hilarious to me and utterly kitschy and tacky, but I hear lots of people liked it! 'Entertainment Weekly' has released today, in their Comic Con issue, some new photos from Marvel's  BLACK PANTHER showing most of the cast in full costume while playing the members of the fantastical African nation where Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa rules over a secretive and futuristic society! The movie is out next February!

 IN THE HEART OF WAKANDA

The fighting in the film is based on Brazilian capoeira

In Marvel lore, T’Challa’s homeland is the site of massive natural deposits of Vibranium, the near-mystical metal that comprises Captain America’s shield, is woven into his BLACK PANTHER, and has allowed the people of Wakanda to make technological leaps nearly a century ahead of the rest of the world. But as T’Challa learns upon ascending the throne, the minute others know you have something valuable, someone

Meet the royal court of Wakanda!

will try to take it from you. In self-defence, Wakanda has closed itself off from the other nations of Earth, maintaining a false front that it’s a mere third-world nowhere – full of mines, farms, and jungle creatures.

The royal fight at the court of Wakanda!

The truth is, its mines produce the rarest, most precious metal on earth, its fields grows the Heart Shaped Herb, a Vibranium enriched plant

The King of Wakanda, Black Panther

that grants its leaders superhuman strength, and its jungle creatures provide inspiration for one of the sleekest superheroes to ever leap from the page to the screen.

MEET THE REST OF THE CAST

Lupita Nyong’o plays Nakia, a covert agent whose job is to stifle word of Wakanda’s secrets, hunting down its enemies with deadly force. Charismatic Michael B. Jordan is Erik Killmonger, a dissident from

Chadwick Boseman takes the lead role of the king of Wakanda

the country and aspiring prince who has colluded with a hostile foreign adversary in a bid to bring down the rightful heir to Wakanda’s throne.

Lupita Nyong'o's Nakia

He has aligned with Andy Serkis’ Ulysses Klaue, the Vibranium poacher who instead of an arm has a piece of sonic mining equipment

Black Panther's suit is made of precious Vibranium

stolen from Wakanda, but the real danger is what he could tell the outside world about the nation’s secrets. T’Challa is also facing an

Michael B. Jordan is KillMonger

unrest among the tribal leaders of Wakanda, who fear the young king is repeating his father’s mistakes by engaging too much with the outside

Daniel Kaluuya is W’Kabi, the head of security for the Border Tribe

world. Angela Bassett is Ramonda, the mother of the king. Danai

Gurira is the head of the Dora Milaje, the all-female special soldiers

Angela Bassett is Wakanda's Queen Mother

unit that protects the kingdom! Martin Freeman is C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross who teams up with the king to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.