The 'Black Panther' Trailer Just Dropped With A Star-Studded Cast

Carla Herreria
Updated

The trailer for “Black Panther” has finally arrived and, by the looks of it, this Marvel world will take us on one helluva ride.

In the nearly two-minute teaser, Chadwick Boseman reprises his role as T’Challa (aka the Black Panther) and returns home as king of Wakanda ― a mysterious, powerful and vividly colorful African world. There, we meet a star-studded cast with Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia, Danai Gurira as Okoye and, T’Challa’s nemesis, Erik Killmonger, played by Michael B. Jordan.

The teaser, which dropped during Game 4 of the NBA finals, opens with Klaw (Andy Serkis) chained to a chair asking Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman) what he knows about Wakanda. When Ross says that it’s a third world country with “cool outfits,” Klaw reveals Wakanda’s true secret, claiming that he is the only person to have ever seen the country and make it out alive.

“Explorers have searched for it, called it El Dorado,” Klaw growls. “They looked for it in South America, but it was in Africa the whole time.”

Wakanda, as it appears in the trailer, is a mix of traditional and modern, natural and sleek, and is brimming with waterfalls. Its people are as Ross had suggested — ornate and vibrantly dressed — but they also prove to be as fierce as T’Challa himself.

And, of course, a generous amount of time was used to show the Black Panther’s own super-hero strength and impenetrable armor.

While the trailer is packed with action and fantasy, Boseman’s co-star Sterling K. Brown has said that the film raises “really provocative questions” and is “politically astute” and “socially relevant.”

“It’s not just an action film,” Brown told Entertainment Tonight. “It addresses the climate today of Africans and African-Americans ― across the country and across the world ― in a way that people will really be excited about.”

“Black Panther,” directed by Ryan Coogler and based on the comic book series (for which Ta-Nehisi Coates is currently writing), is due to screen in theaters this February.

This story has been updated to show that Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of many writers contributing to the “Black Panther” series.

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View of a line of Black Panther Party members as they stand outside the New York City courthouse under a portion of an Abraham Lincoln quote which reads 'The Ultimate Justice of the People,' New York, New York, April 11, 1969.
View of a line of Black Panther Party members as they stand outside the New York City courthouse under a portion of an Abraham Lincoln quote which reads 'The Ultimate Justice of the People,' New York, New York, April 11, 1969.
Eldridge Cleaver stands with his back to the student crowd which he addressed at American University on Oct. 18, 1968 in Washington, DC. 
Eldridge Cleaver stands with his back to the student crowd which he addressed at American University on Oct. 18, 1968 in Washington, DC. 
Activist and Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver stands in front of the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland during the trial of her husband, Eldridge Cleaver. (Photo by © Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
Activist and Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver stands in front of the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland during the trial of her husband, Eldridge Cleaver. (Photo by © Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
Two members of the Black Panther Party are met on the steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento, May 2, 1967, by Police Lt. Ernest Holloway, who informs them they will be allowed to keep their weapons as long as they cause no trouble and do not disturb the peace. Earlier several members had invaded the Assembly chambers and had their guns taken away.
Black Panthers, teenagers, and children give the black panther salute outside their 'Liberation School' in the Fillmore district of San Francisco on Dec. 20, 1969. 
Black Panthers, teenagers, and children give the black panther salute outside their 'Liberation School' in the Fillmore district of San Francisco on Dec. 20, 1969. 
Robert Duren and Black Panthers protesting in front of 77th St Division LAPD in Los Angeles in 1980
Robert Duren and Black Panthers protesting in front of 77th St Division LAPD in Los Angeles in 1980
Inside a Black Panther Party headquarters in Los Angeles in 1977.
Inside a Black Panther Party headquarters in Los Angeles in 1977.
A group of women, under a 'Women's Liberation' banner, march in support of the Black Panther Party, New Haven, Connecticut, November 1969. 
A group of women, under a 'Women's Liberation' banner, march in support of the Black Panther Party, New Haven, Connecticut, November 1969. 
Members of the Black Panther Party stand behind tables and distribute free hot dogs to the public in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 1960s. 
Members of the Black Panther Party stand behind tables and distribute free hot dogs to the public in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 1960s. 
A Yippie & Black Panther confronting each other at the riot conspiracy trial of the Chicago Eight on Sept. 1, 1969.  
A Yippie & Black Panther confronting each other at the riot conspiracy trial of the Chicago Eight on Sept. 1, 1969.  
A woman sits on a bench outside the Black Panther office in Harlem circa 1970 in New York City. Pictured in the window are Panther founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
A woman sits on a bench outside the Black Panther office in Harlem circa 1970 in New York City. Pictured in the window are Panther founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
View of a Black Panther Party rally, held at the Post Office Square in Boston in 1970.
View of a Black Panther Party rally, held at the Post Office Square in Boston in 1970.

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