{"id":76530,"date":"2016-07-29T11:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T11:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2016\/07\/29\/ruth-carter-named-costume-designer-marvels-black-panther\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T02:57:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:57:39","slug":"ruth-carter-named-costume-designer-marvels-black-panther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/ruth-carter-named-costume-designer-marvels-black-panther\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth E. Carter Named Costume Designer For Marvel’s Black Panther"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruth E. Carter Named Costume Designer For Marvel’s Black Panther<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

July 29, 2016<\/p>\n

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With a cast that in continuing to grow with production set to start in early 2017, Ruth E. Carter<\/strong> has been named costume designer for Marvel’s Black Panther<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Directed by Ryan Coogler, the cast so far includes\u00a0Chadwick Boseman<\/strong>,\u00a0Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o <\/strong>and its latest member Danai Gurira.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Boseman, <\/b>who stars as\u00a0<\/b>T\u2019Challa aka Black Panther and his MCU debut in Captain America: Civil War<\/strong>.\u00a0Jordan will be playing the film\u2019s villain, Erik Killmonger, while Nyong’o and Gurira will play Nakia and Okoye<\/span>, high ranking members of Black Panther’s bodyguards, The Dora Milaje.<\/p>\n

Having done 12 of Spike Lee\u2019s films including\u00a0School Daze, Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X<\/strong>, and most recently\u00a0Chi-Raq<\/strong>,Carter has worked with almost every Black director in the business, including\u00a0Robert Townsend\u2019s The Five Heartbeats, John Singleton\u2019s Baby Boy<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Four Brothers, Gina Prince-Bythewood\u2019s Love & Basketball<\/strong>,\u00a0Lee Daniels\u2019 Butler<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Ava<\/strong>\u00a0DuVernay\u2019s Selma.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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She recently received an Emmy nomination for her wardrobe work on the remake of Roots<\/strong>. Carter garnered two Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design for her work on Lee’s Malcolm X (1992), and Amistad (1997) directed by Steven Spielberg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Upcoming projects include Kidnap<\/strong> starring Halle Berry<\/strong>, Keeping Up with the Joneses<\/strong> with Gal Gadot<\/strong>, and Marshall<\/strong>, the Thurgood Marshall film starring Chadwick Boseman<\/strong> and directed by Reginald Hudlin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Black Panther hits theaters on February 2, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marvel Studios upcoming slate includes Doctor Strange on November 4, 2016, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 on May 5, 2017, Spider-Man: Homecoming on July 7, 2017, Thor: Ragnarok on November 3, 2017, Black Panther on February 6, 2018, Avengers: Infinity War Part I on May 4, 2018, Ant-Man and The Wasp on July 6, 2018, Captain Marvel on March 8, 2019, and Avengers: Infinity War Part II on May 3, 2019, with three untitled Marvel Studios films set to premiere on May 1, 2020, July 10, 2020, and November 6, 2020.<\/p>\n