Ava DuVernay went from zero to sixty in the last few years, from being the first African-American woman to win the Sundance director prize (in 2012 for her second film, “Middle of Nowhere”) to Best Picture Oscar nominee with “Selma” in 2015. Shortly thereafter, Marvel offered her the chance to direct “Black Panther,” which she gave careful deliberation before she turned it down.
“It wasn’t the right project for me,” she told the crowd at the ArcLight 5 in Culver City this weekend. “It was the perfect project for Ryan Coogler,” she told moderator Elvis Mitchell. “He’s going to shake it up and present it to you on a silver platter!”
What’s exciting about “Black Panther,” she added, is that it boasts “an African superhero and a black bad guy, too.” She wants to see what happens when filmmakers of color “are playing with the big toys,” she said.
Accepting...
“It wasn’t the right project for me,” she told the crowd at the ArcLight 5 in Culver City this weekend. “It was the perfect project for Ryan Coogler,” she told moderator Elvis Mitchell. “He’s going to shake it up and present it to you on a silver platter!”
What’s exciting about “Black Panther,” she added, is that it boasts “an African superhero and a black bad guy, too.” She wants to see what happens when filmmakers of color “are playing with the big toys,” she said.
Accepting...
- 6/6/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
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