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Marvel Studios is known for its light tone. Even in Captain America: Civil War - which could just as easily have been titled 'Captain America: Old Friends Beat the Hell Out of Each Other' - there were plenty of moments of humour.
But Black Panther is another prospect altogether. King T'Challa of Wakanda has never been a comedic character - he's far too busy ruling his country for any messing around.
And now the film's star, Chadwick Boseman, has confirmed that Marvel is taking a different approach to its 2018 movie.
"It's funny, because on one hand, the Marvel movies that I've liked the most are the ones that are funny," he told Comic Book Resources. "I love Ant-Man. But for me, most of the time the darker superhero movies are the ones that I gravitate towards, that I love the most.
"So I'm glad that I'm not in an Ant-Man. I'm glad that the tone of [Black Panther] may be a little grittier. I just wanted to establish that from the beginning, that that's what we were doing. That that's what I intend to do.
"I feel like we'll end up in a place that I've always wanted to be when I look at superhero movies. Those are the ones I like the most. It's exciting to do that."
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The film's cast was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con earlier in the year. Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B Jordan and The Walking Dead's Danai Gurira will be joining Boseman on the movie.
Black Panther will be released on February 9, 2018, in the UK and February 16, 2018, in the US.
