Date 05/12/2015 - News People
Mashable has confirmed Creed director Ryan Coogler is in talks to direct the Black Panther movie starring Chadwick Boseman for Disney/Marvel. Coogler is riding high after Creed, starring Sylvester Stallone and Michael B. Jordan, was a huge box office success, making $42 million over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend. If the deal makes, Coogler would likely make Black Panther his next project, as the Marvel Phase Three film is dated for 2018. Coogler made a splash at Sundance in 2013 with Fruitvale Station, starring Jordan as the Bay Area resident Oscar Grant, who was fatally shot by BART Police officer in 2009. From there he pitched Creed, the story of Apollo Creed's out-of-wedlock son.