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"He's making this movie for his 8-year-old self," says Feige. He tells Entertainment Weekly that after purchasing the two "Black Panther" comic books that he could find, he took a picture and sent it to the president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige.
On the day that he got called to direct the film, Coogler says he and his wife went back to the same comic book shop he used to visit. You could work 24 hours a day and it still wouldn't be enough on a film like this."
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"I had to figure out how to let myself rest. "This is the first project that I ever did that I felt like I had to make peace with the fact that I would never be caught up in my work," he tells The New York Times. For his third film, he had an estimated $200 million budget to bring a black superhero story to the big screen. You're going against a tsunami of skepticism."īut taking on career challenges is something Coogler does not shy away from. "What Ryan was taking on was quite a lot for his second time out. "It was a leap of faith," Stallone told the Los Angeles Times of his decision to work with Coogler, who was just 29 at the time. His film also caught the attention of actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone, who Coogler worked with for his second movie, 2015's "Creed," a spinoff of the famed "Rocky" series. When "Fruitvale Station" was released in 2013, the then 27-year-old director received instant recognition from several festivals and film entities including Sundance, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards. With a low budget of $900,000, Coogler recruited some of his friends to be producers for the project. The incident, which sparked riots throughout the Bay Area, inspired Coogler to bring Grant's story to life in his first feature film, " Fruitvale Station." I never want to shy away from the truth."Īfter his first semester, an unarmed African-American male named Oscar Grant was shot to death by a police officer in Coogler's hometown of Oakland. "I spent Christmas break on the streets and got a lot of stories. "That film is from deep research," he tells Filmmaker Magazine. During his first semester at USC he lived out of his car and used his experience as inspiration for a series of short films, including "Fig," which chronicles the story of a prostitute trying to positively change her life while raising a daughter.
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