It goes without saying that there’s a lot of death in Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War. Deaths that may no doubt be undone with Avengers 4, but for the time being, the Russo Brothers dished out a huge dosage of death for the recent Avengers film.
For those who have seen Infinity War, “the Snap” was one of the more devastating moments ever experienced in the MCU. With a snap of his fingers, Thanos took out half the world’s population. While all of the deaths were shocking and devastating in their own way, one death, in particular, was shocking, to say the least. The Russo brothers chose to kill off the king of Wakanda, the Black Panther himself.
Nate Moore, a development and production executive at Marvel Studios, as well as a producer on “Black Panther,” recently told Huffington Post that he learned a while ago that “Infinity War” directors Anthony and Joe Russo planned to kill off T’Challa. In fact, he’s been aware of T’Challa’s fate for years.
I knew pretty well what they were talking about and personally urged them to reconsider. But the storytelling made sense, so I love that we got to see a little bit more of Wakanda in that film, and I hope to see how they’re going to resolve that. Touching on all the different ideas you can have, you talk about the pros and cons of each, and they had some really compelling arguments as to why what happened happened… Personally painful, but I understand the reasoning.
When director Anthony Russo was asked if he’d ever reconsidered T’Challa’s fate in Infinity War, considering how massive Black Panther ended up being, he said no, asserting that a story is a story.
We were very cued into the storyline of Panther from his origins in Captain America: Civil War. The role that Panther and Wakanda played in this movie was sort of a bedrock of the movie, a bedrock of the [Marvel cinematic universe]. I think Black Panther could’ve done half the business that it did and it still would’ve been a valid creative choice.
Of course, there’s a strong likelihood the superhero isn’t gone for good, given the Black Panther sequel that’s in the works.
Avengers: Infinity War is in theaters now.
Source: Huffington Post
