#ryan coolger

[geekcavepodcast]

Sinners Trailer

"Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back." (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Sinners is directed by Ryan Coogler. The film stars Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Stenfeld, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.

Sinners releases to theaters on March 7, 2025.

[wakandaiscoming]

Ryan Coogler (with his Chadwick Boseman necklace!!!) and Gina Prince Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King) interview each other for Variety.

Not sponsored by Topo Chico.

[dancingmusique]

What’s the status of this project?! I own the entire Bitter Root series and was excited about it being turned into a film. Now with the release of Coogler’s Sinner’s trailer that has a similar vibe, I realized it’s been loooonnnnggg time since any new news about a Bitter Root film has been announced.

We won!!!

[alexstewart]

BLACK PANTHER (2018) Dir. Ryan Coolger

[cinnamonsikwate]

ah-HA finally I see someone talking about the Talokan world building! One thing that I haven't seen anyone mention is the specific shade of blue the Talokanil turn into on the surface, but I think it's supposed to invoke Mayan Blue! The wiki article on it is (in my uneducated opinion) pretty good, but one thing that stood out is that human sacrifices to Chaac were painted that color, which is just, so profound. The detail of this film, ugh!

I discovered this when I was trying to find symbolic colors that other people would turn into if they joined the Talokanil. It was for a plot bunny that I will likely never catch, but a pre-Black Panther K'uk'ulkan saves a dying N'Jadaka by giving him the Talokanil Herb after mistakingly thinking N'Jadaka was the son of a Talokanil. I thought Haint Blue (a Gullah shade believed to ward off ghosts) would be a good ironic choice for N'Jadaka, but I'm not sure if a color so heavily associated with the American diaspora would be a good choice for a Wakandan like Shuri ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yes, I partially made this ask to plug my prompt lol. I'm disappointed that not many fanfics are doing the world building that the Talokanil deserve! Instead they're just being treated as people who sometimes go in the water at best, or invoking racist Native tropes as worst. But I loved your detailed post about their clothing! You did an amazing job at researching! Now, if only Ryan Coolger and the crew would release the 200-page bible they wrote about Talokan...

hello and thank you for this ask!

tbh i didn't look up much regarding maya blue when i wrote the clothing analysis posts, but after doing some reading, i definitely agree! many of the scholarly articles on maya blue focus on its chemistry rather than its cultural significance, but the reason researchers find it so intriguing is its near-indestructibility (sánchez del rio et al. 2011, 453-481), which i think ties in neatly to the talokanil ability to self-regenerate.

this passage from arnold et al. (2008, 151-164) is particularly interesting:

when the shaman was trying to convince fen to drink the liquid, we see someone holding what looks like an incense burner in the background. we can take the talokan plant to be a stand-in for the indigo plant, and the vibranium that it contains as a stand-in for palygorskite (a clay mineral). so all three together = maya blue.

the idea that the zamá people were sacrificing themselves for chaac's protection? damn???

anyway. i LOVE your prompt! it's very thought-provoking. i have had somewhat related idle musings, mostly because i'm not sure how realistic it is for the talokanil population to have ballooned to beyond-the-grass-of-wakanda numbers from only a handful of founders in a span of less than five centuries. i like to think that at some point they were regularly rescuing people from the surface, adding to the diversity of their gene pool and also bringing in new customs and technology.

several questions arise though: how long were they doing this, who did they rescue, and how wide was their geographic scope? we know at least one talokanil extra is afro-indigenous; the kids shuri meets in talokan aren't credited on imdb but they looked a lot whiter to me than the other talokanil, so the actors may be mixed. aside from razing haciendas and plantations on the mainland after that first time, would they also have rescued people from the trans-atlantic slave trade? would they have swum around to the pacific and rescued people from the manila-acapulco galleon trade?

which brings me back to your prompt and has me asking more questions - would chaac's blessing cover someone who is not one of his people? is conversion a prerequisite? although the idea that anyone — from indigenous americans to africans to filipinos — can become talokanil is interesting, because would that mean they'd have communities within talokan where they continue to practice their cultures? how would their different worldviews affect how they see and treat k'uk'ulkan? and — would they still be maya blue or would they take on a color more connected to their original culture? if they do take on different colors, haint blue for n'jadaka does sound pretty fitting (especially since it also uses indigo). as for shuri though, since she didn't take the unmodified talokan plant, should her skin color still change?

if i had the stamina to write fic, i'd have run away with this prompt, but unfortunately i don't, so let's put this out there and hope someone takes the bait! (fish pun intended)

i do occasionally come across fics (usually of the shipping variety) that i think do a pretty decent job of world-building, but they tend to focus on the present-day customs of the talokanil and less so on their early years (which is what i'm more interested in). i do dearly wish we get to see more canon talokan lore soon, but if ryan coogler is not involved somehow, idk if i can take it lol.

again, thank you so much for taking the time to read my meta, and i appreciate your engaging with me!

p.s. according to hannah beachler, the talokan guide is 400 pages!

[intheshadows869]

Tenoch being a freak in the sheets 🤝🏽 Ryan Coolger hiring him to be the seductive Namor

[cryptonews256]

Sundance Honors A Quartet At Sundance 2023 – Deadline

“I prefer to speak through my movies,” Ryan Coogler told a well-heeled crowd tonight at the late night A Taste of Sundance dinner. That may be true for the Creed and Black Panther director, but accepting the first annual Sundance Institute Visionary Award on the first day of the 2023 festival, 2013 Audience and Grand Jury awards winner Coolger certainly had something to say Thursday.  “I was…

[chaosandstardust]

rian johnson make strong female characters aslo ryan coolger made strong female characters

Okay? Would you like me to give them a cookie for treating their female characters like complex human beings? Male writers don't get extra points for that. Because you know who else creates and writes "strong female characters"?

Chloé Zhao, Greta Gerwig, Olivia Wilde, Sofia Coppola, Ava DuVernay, Patty Jenkins, Jane Austen, Gillian Flynn, Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith, Suzanne Collins, and the list goes on and on and on.

I'm not awarding male directors and writers for doing the bare minimum. Nobody should. If they just thought of their female characters as people or maybe stopped putting so many men in their stories rather than having the token hot woman they wouldn't have this problem. They are able to do it and I welcome them to do it, most of them won't.

Most of them will hear "hey maybe don't write about women that way" and whine "WHAT YOU'RE SAYING I CAN'T WRITE WOMEN AT ALL?"

[dyke1]

ryan coolger really did something so special with this movie no thanks to marvel I'm sure... cause I tried to watch she hulk after this and I wanted to kill myself from how bad it was

[hanorganaas]

Disney can save LF if they give Ava or Taika or Ryan the FinnRey Trilogy

Or how about all 3.

Episode 10: Taikia Directs cause he will save Star Wars like he saved the Thor Trilogy [Hopefully Saga cause I want another Thor Directed by Taika

Episode 11: Ryan Directs cause we discover that Finn is the son of Queen Mara Jade [cause I still want Finn Skywalker] and we see some worldbuilding and did you see Wakanda? Ryans good at that shit.

Episode 12: Ava Directs, cause she will send out the triology with a bang and blow everyones mind while doing it cause no one expects a woman to do it and it will be like SURPRISE BITCH]

[themasterpupil]

Killmomgers story is really intense. There’s no way you can be mad at him. Maybe most definitely at his aggressiveness but his cause and reasoning can’t really be argued with, I also picked up mad shit I like about it as a whole like Black Panther Is a true masterpiece of a movie, cinematographyly, dialogue wise was just dope. At first I looked down on the scene in South Korea cause it seemed cliche and based on product placement for that car but watching it a second time I found it exciting reminding me of shit like Rush Hour and what not and like Tokyo Drift and even back in my video game days playing racing games with my bestfriend and my cousin. My favorite scene of course is Killmongers first time in the throne room claiming the shit by blood right of his true name. Now I wanna know my true name. His whole concept as just a fatherless nigga from the hood separated from his home turn soldier/gangsta/black militant to survive just in order to kill his own cousin out of spite for his father’s death. I can’t be mad at that 🤷🏾‍♂️ other favorite scenes include freezing, coronation ceremony challenge day (Forrest Whitaker bad accent replaying in my head), the resurrection scene where he all like clearly I’m not dead and I did not yield so it’s still on cuzzo, and just the whole ending war, Killmomgers untimely unfortunate death but he still got the power of the erb in him so maybe it helped. But yeah, I enjoyed that!

[froggitry]

I don't even care about seeing infinity war spoilers at this point because nothing feels real and there's no more logic. like, if I were to read "they killed the entire team and every single avenger is dead" I wouldn't even be surprised. I'm so tired of marvel

[wakandaiscoming]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtygMkXajh4

Been watching some YouTube interviews with the cast and crew and thought this was a good one with some new information (about W’Kabi, original concept for Black Panther 2, key differences between Wakanda and Talokan, the trajectory of Riri Williams’ character and more).

Wakanda Forever! Talokan Rises!

[margokesses]

Idk why it bothers me so much considering I haven't read any of her comics but the way that yelenas character in the mcu changes between black widow to hawkeye annoys me.

I haven't seen hawkeye but I have seen clips and it feels like they're trying to make her a rip off villianelle in that show compared to how she was in her own movie.

And as a comics fan I know what it's like to read a character in one run and the writer seems to genuinely like and understand that character and in another writers hands the character is written like shit. So like I'm not surprised that her character changed between movies/TV shows.

But it just annoys me bc yelena in the black widow seemed like unique compared to how the mcu writes their woman (outside of the black panther movies ryan coolger we love you this isn't about you).

Like she was badass and funny in this sort of dry way that didn't feel like a joss wheadon character and I liked it. And then hawkeye had to go and do that...

[itszonez]

ANGELA BASSETT as RAMONDA in BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (2022) dir. Ryan Coolger

[the-quasar-hero]

Ryan Coolger is single-handedly keeping my interest in the MCU alive