Comic-Con hits: ‘Black Panther,’ Batman, ‘Stranger Things’
SAN DIEGO — From “Black Panther” to Batman, “Stranger Things” to “Blade Runner 2049,” and “Ready Player One” to Rep. John Lewis, Comic-Con had something for almost every pop-culture appetite.
As the annual fan convention in San Diego wraps Sunday after four days of panels, presentations, screenings and autograph signings, here’s a look at some of the highlights.
BLACK PANTHER: The film won’t be out until 2019, but “Black Panther” swiped the most attention at Marvel’s presentation. Director Ryan Coogler and cast members Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, Andy Serkis and Danai Gurira were on hand to debut a clip from the film.
Boseman, who introduced his Black Panther character in 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War,” said the new film finds him returning to his home of Wakanda after his father dies. Nyong’o described her character as a spy who goes undercover to report back to the fictional isolated nation about what is going on in the rest of the world.