![]() ![]() The movie is poised for a majorly successful box office opening weekend. I already have them all in my basement right now.” Photo courtesy of Ole Miss. “I told Marvel I’d love to take it on and they offered to send me some Black Panther comic books for research, and I said, ‘Don’t bother. “When I was at Ole Miss, me and my friends would drive from campus all the way to Memphis to comic book shops on Wednesday or Thursday nights when the new ones came out and pick them up. “I’ve been reading comic books my entire life,” Holland said. Rap megastar Kendrick Lamar produced the soundtrack.īeing asked to write the novel, “Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther?” was a dream come true, Holland said. ![]() The novel was released last fall as part of efforts to promote the new $200 million movie, which stars Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, and features Forest Whitaker and Lupita Nyong’o. ![]() The goal was to create a new world for the main character, T’Challa, set in modern times. Holland, a Holly Springs native who graduated from the university in 1994 with a degree in journalism, was tasked in 2016 with retelling the story through a 90,000-word origin story novel based on material in six comics. ![]()
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