of africa on an atlanta sound stage puts coogler under an enormous amount of pressure. the scope of the project, the amount of people looking at you every day, you know what i m saying, is it s a lot. he would come to me and say, hey, you know, if this doesn t do well, you know, you can still work again. this is it for me. you know? i would be like, i don t know. i don t think i could work again after this either. beyond the huge scale of the production, coogler and his cast and crew are driven by one idea. black panther has to be authentic. the whole cast was just sort of like, we have to make sure that it s not just a super hero movie. we have to make sure that there is a sense of africa in everything that we do. i live on the african continent. i see traditional cultural
to the gridiron dinner next year. susan page, matt lewis, rich lowery. thanks for being with us. president trump said north korea called up and wanting to talk. what now? $100 million has been earmarked for russian meddling. guess how much has been spent? i remember a time when the major studios didn t believe a woman or a minority could open a super hero movie and i reason i remember that time is because it was march of last year. the oscars me too moment, hollywood s biggest night becomes a celebration of diversity. i try hard to keep a great shape.
cast. it s 2018, this is still considered revolutionary. yeah, it is. setting a precedent that i think is going to be difficult to go back on, which is what s exciting. reporter: we sat down with the cast of the film. chadwick boseman, who plays t challa, the black panther, lupita nyong o and danai gurira. you want to have a good time making a movie, and if a movie can change something in the world, then, you know, you want that, too. reporter: what kind of movie is black panther? is it a black movie? is it a super hero movie? i think reporter: you gave me the side eye just then. i did, because i think maybe some of these terms are, you know, they re limiting. you know, the black movie term. like, let s crack that open. reporter: black panther, the latest heart-pounding movie by marvel. it s already breaking records. even film star nyong o couldn t get tickets. 15 minutes later, i was trying to purchase tickets, and they are sold out. sold out.
yo movie fans were once again saying hi to lots of super heroes this year. i love every single super hero movie. i don t care how bad they are. i don t care what the tomato people say. i love them all because it means my culture is winning. i just saw thor and it was the best movie about rag nah rock of the year. the box office raked in receipts for the latest adventures of the transformers. show time, a-holes. the guardians of the galax, even will he go batman held his own. batman, we lot of you. and logan stood strong for the, and men. log logan was so good. it had heart and action and my favorite, patrick stewart. wait a minute, you guys aren t the real ainventory
manies. it s trap manyings. i have trouble grasping the notion. they put like a cop or guard who is like slow down, slow down. . it s crazy. [all talking at once] neil: lighten up, kids. there s a new super hero movie, justice league. it s considered disappointing, as it may, made a little less than $. 00 million a lot of money still. but we re getting a lot of movies. one after another, there will be more super hero movies, more of these leagues of them all in one picture. i think we re super heroed out. we re super heroed out. a lot of movies are too serious. they take themselves too seriously. that s why the guardians of the gal lacksry, marvel, thor, he-man was funny. they re realizing, they need to turn night a comedy more than an action movie. neil: you don t want to go too far.