Sterling K. Brown's run of Hollywood hits is far from over. After clinching an Emmy last year for The People v O.J. and stealing all of our feels in NBC's This Is Us, he's back again. This time it's for the blackest movie of all time, the shining pride of Black History Month 2018, and my personally most anticipated movie of all time — Marvel's Black Panther.
Yes, that Black Panther. It's only fitting that the entirety of Hollywood's black A-list stars form an Avengers-like coalition, combining their powers for one supercharged, unstoppable, otherworldly movie that destroys the Box Office forever. If there has ever been one, this film is surely the one to erase the notion that movies with majority black casts don't perform as well, or that black lead actors are not bankable.
Hollywood, Marvel and Ryan Coogler have been plotting on your downfall, and it's coming. Black Panther is like 2008 Drake, and Hollywood is the rap game – you know how the story goes.
So obviously, just in case Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong'o, Forest Whitaker, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Chadwick Boseman and more fire black people not previously named aren't enough, Sterling has joined the squad.
More interestingly, his character's name is one that isn't familiar – even to comic book heads like myself. All Marvel gives us about the mysterious N'Jobu is that he's "a figure from T'Challa's past." So I'm smelling some childhood friend from the lower class type of action going on. But is he friend or foe? We have an entire 12 months to figure that out.
But it's safe to say that Mr. Brown is just excited as we are.
According to some info on a casting site Black Panther is starting production this January 2017 in the great city of Atlanta, GA. And it's still on schedule to release in theaters nationwide on February 16, 2018.
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