Audiences all over the world have given the recently released Marvel movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever good reviews. While moviegoers enjoy the movie in theatres, producer and Marvel executive Nate Moore recently provided a sneak peek inside the decision-making process for the Marvel characters.
The 2018 movie Black Panther, directed by Ryan Coogler, has a sequel called Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Letitia Wright, who played Shuri/Black Panther, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, and Dominique Thorne were among the actors that played other prominent roles in the movie.
Nate Moore, the Marvel executive in charge of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s production and development, reportedly spoke with Matthew Belloni on the podcast The Town about how the company plans its future initiatives, including developing characters and storylines.
Nate Moore was open about how decisions at Marvel were made, saying that they had a not-so-secret retreat every year or two where they travel to Palm Springs and discuss intriguing characters, storylines they’d want to tell, or whether they wanted anything done. She continued by saying that they still had more than 50 years’ worth of content to draw from for the movies and that they had no shortage of ideas. Before concluding, Nate Moore made a suggestion on how they had an abundance of ideas.
She said, “[Those decisions] are made in a couple different ways, to be honest. You know, we have a not-so-secret retreat every year or two, where we go away to Palm Springs, typically, and just talk about interesting characters or stories we’d love to tell, or, ‘Hey, if we could do anything we wanted, what would it be? Who would it be? What characters haven’t we used that we’re passionate about? And out of that week, there tends to be one or two tentpoles that sometimes move, but that we start to be able to build around. And things like the multiverse came out of there, things like building… through Phase 3 around the Infinity Gauntlet, came out of those discussions because people had a passion for the material. And, you know, if you think about Marvel, we have 50 plus years of material to pull from, so it’s not like there’s a shortage of ideas. If anything, there’s sort of an overwhelming amount of ideas. And it has to be someone being passionate about any given idea to figure out how to get it on its feet.”
