"People don't make $140 million movies starring black and brown people," opined Chadwick Boseman when asked about his appearance in Gods of Egypt, as the only person of African descent in the (ill-fated) 2016 blockbuster's principal cast.
That was before Black Panther.
Marvel's all-in take on Afrofuturism, in which Boseman played the titular king-cum-superhero, blew up the global box office in 2018 – coming second only to Avengers: Infinity War, which also featured Boseman's Panther.
