{"id":94120,"date":"2017-01-06T09:35:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T09:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=94120"},"modified":"2017-01-06T09:35:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T09:35:24","slug":"black-panther-movie-recruits-people-vs-oj-simpson-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/black-panther-movie-recruits-people-vs-oj-simpson-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Panther movie recruits People Vs OJ Simpson star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most of the Marvel movies so far, Ryan Coogler&#8217;s <em><strong>Black Panther<\/strong> <\/em>movie can boast a seriously impressive cast. Now, it has just got even better, with it being confirmed that Sterling K Brown has joined the cast.<\/p>\n<p>Having stood out in the role of Christopher Darden in<em><strong> The People Vs OJ Simpson<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; where he gained Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his trouble &#8211; he will star in <em><strong>Black Panther<\/strong><\/em> as N\u2019Jobu, who is described as \u201ca figure from T\u2019Challa aka Black Panther\u2019s past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know much more about the character &#8211; who is a completely new creation, previously unseen in the comics &#8211; but it&#8217;s another strong casting coup, and Brown is clearly happy to be on board, as he indicated on Twitter:<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beyond thrilled to be joining this immensely talented group of actors &amp; storytellers! Thank you for a seat at the table! ??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/blackpanther?src=hash\">#blackpanther<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IEbRyhkXOE\">https:\/\/t.co\/IEbRyhkXOE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sterling K Brown (@sterlingkb1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sterlingkb1\/status\/817108552313511936\">January 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The story will see the Black Panther return to his native home of Wakanda (where Bucky is being kept in cold storage and Captain America is being sheltered &#8211; no word, if any, on what part they will play in the film), and looks likely to see the Panther face a power struggle for the throne both from outside and within. Having impressed in Captain <em><strong>America: Civil War<\/strong><\/em>, the prospect of the solo movie is an enticing one, and having actors like Brown join helps its cause no end.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94126\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-94126 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sterling-k-brown-american-crime-story-750x522-1456871982.jpg\" alt=\"sterling-k-brown-american-crime-story-750x522-1456871982\" width=\"750\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sterling-k-brown-american-crime-story-750x522-1456871982.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sterling-k-brown-american-crime-story-750x522-1456871982-600x418.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sterling-k-brown-american-crime-story-750x522-1456871982-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/sterling-k-brown-american-crime-story-750x522-1456871982-616x429.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sterling K Brown has joined the cast of Black Panther.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He joins a cast that already includes Chadwick Boseman as T&#8217;Challa\/Black Panther, Michael B Jordan as Killmonger, Lupita Nyong&#8217;o as Nakia, Angela Bassett as Romonda, T&#8217;Challa&#8217;s mother, Winston Duke as M\u2019Baka, aka the Man Ape, Forest Whitaker as Zuri, Daniel Kaluuya as W&#8217;Kabi, Danai Gurira as Okoye and Florence Kasumba as Ayo, with Andy Serkis reportedly set to reprise his role as Ulysses Klaue. Ryan Coogler is directing from a script he co-penned with Joe Robert Cole.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Black Panther<\/em> will be released in cinemas on 9 February 2018. For all the latest movie news, <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.kelsey.co.uk\/issue\/View\/issue\/SCI127\/scifinow-issue-127\">pick up the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of 2016&#8217;s breakout TV stars has joined the Black Panther cast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":94127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2868],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/maxresdefault.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}