Chris here. Everything for Ryan Coogler's Black Panther just continues to look better and better. We got a pretty rousing trailer a while back, and now EW has a whole slew of photos to tease next year's first Marvel extravaganza.
The photo set gives us a closer look at this star-packed ensemble and promises unique character design. Coogler is apparently drawing on both The Godfather and the James Bond series for his narrative inspiration, but these aesthetics take my mind closer to 80s and early 90s fantasy epics for their gorgeous genre craftsmanship. The go-for-broke oppulence of Ruth E. Carter's costume design looks to be a hybrid of sci-fi tropes and African influences, certainly the most eye-popping Marvel has delivered. If you've been begging Marvel to break its mold, it looks like Black Panther could be a superhero oasis of originality.
Some favorites after the jump...
Medallioned gym shorts! Leather swim pants! Try harder, real world bros - Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan are proving you are mere mortals.
As if it wasn't already hard enough to not just shout "LUPITA!" at the screen, she's dressed in this.
Now the Bond influence is coming through. Honestly, the ensemble member I'm most excited for is The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira (pictured right) - she was quite outstanding in this summer's underwhelming All Eyez On Me.
A Makeup And Hairstyling Oscar just for putting Angela Bassett in this hair, please. Anyone else think the red seam in Martin Freeman's robe here was a handbag strap?
What is your favorite costume in EW's Black Panther photo set?