The Dora Milaje take a stand in this exclusive deleted scene from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The latest big screen entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be available to watch at home tomorrow
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After hitting theaters last November, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will finally be available to watch at home this week. Starting Wednesday, the latest big-screen installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be available through digital retailers as well as streaming on Disney+, followed by 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD releases on February 7. The digital and physical editions will come with bonus features including a gag reel, deleted scenes, and audio commentary from the filmmakers. The A.V. Club has an exclusive premiere of one of the previously unseen clips from the film.
[Spoilers follow for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.]
The new scene, titled “Outside The Scope,” follows Okoye (Danai Gurira) shortly after Queen Ramonda (Oscar-nominee Angela Bassett) removes her from her post as the leader of the Dora Milaje. Of course, as previously seen in 2018's Black Panther, her sense of duty to the Wakandan royal family is incredibly strong, and the former general can’t stand idly by when Shuri (Letitia Wright) is still missing after an encounter with Namor (Tenoch Huerta). Okoye is prepared to go on her own mission to retrieve the princess from Talokan, but she meets some resistance in the form of her recent co-workers and the king’s guard.
“Okoye, you trained us, all of us,” Ayo (Florence Kasumba) tells her. “Do not make us spill your blood.”
While everyone eventually stands down, it’s a tense moment. The scene also poses the question of what would have happened if Okoye had arrived in Talokan first, rather than Lupita Nyong’o’s Nakia, whose rescue mission ended up leading to further conflict between the two fictional nations.
The A.V. Club’s review called Black Panther: Wakanda Forever “A meditation on grief that aspires to exercise as many emotional and intellectual muscles as the physical ones that ripple across its superheroes.” Wakanda Forever is still playing in select theaters, and comes to Digital February 1 and 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD February 7.
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Everybody in this thing all seem to take themselves so damn seriously I can’t imagine the gag reel being much fun.
Way too serious, I wish it was more comedic like Thor: Love And Thunder. I’m an MCU fan I’m impossible to please.
I’d guess the opposite. Imagine the comedown from having to act that ridiculously grim and serious when you’re not personally like that.
Oh yeah, the goofiest I’ve ever seen actors on stage was in-between scenes during rehearsals of a play about the Holocaust. You have to get the grimdark out somehow.
God, now I’m picturing all these people in those horrible striped pajamas cracking each other up.
Those usually provide the better gag reels.
30 days hath November, April, June and September.
Not January, dude.
It’ll be out day after tomorrow.
This is what you get when you outsource your headline writers from countries on the other side of the International Date Line.
That was a missed opportunity in not calling the film Blacker Panther : Electric Boogaloo.
If this is going to become standard practice, uploading clips to the GMO video player, I think somebody should do something about the fact that I and other users here have had repeated issues viewing them. This clip won’t play for me at all. Oddly, the one on Gizmodo does work, which makes me believe there’s something specifically being done by the AV Club video editor. Even when the video sometimes plays, I usually can’t access tracking or volume, and I don’t really see why you don’t just upload the clip to your YouTube channel, where it will get much more engagement anyway.There were apparently three clips released today, the second one being on Gizmodo, and the third one seemingly given to IGN, who uploaded it there
It’s the ad blocker. I had to disable mine, deal with the half-page sized ads blocking the article, then finally watch the video.
I wish these clips could be watched integrated to the movie like they did with the Harry Potter movies
I more or less enjoyed BPWF when it came out, but I wish they’d put as much thought into the logic of the plot as they did into the character development and grief for T’Chadwick. From a writing standpoint, plot mechanics are the easiest part to get right; meaningful emotional stuff is a lot harder.
What I’m gathering from all the deleted scenes is that Okoye had a much bigger arc which wound up on the cutting room floor.