10 Fascinating Facts About Black Panther (2018)

10. Donald Glover Contributed To The Script

Attentive viewers may have noticed that during the end credits of Black Panther, none other than Donald Glover himself gets a thank you. Turns out, that’s because he and his brother Stephen Glover actually came in and gave the script a “punch up” at the request of writer/director Ryan Coogler.

As Donald Glover described it;

“We had a couple of hours to look over it, punch up some jokes and stuff like that. It was already there anyway — they had already done a great job — so it was really cool just to get our fingerprints on there a little bit too.”

Coogler asked the two to take a look at the script shortly before the film began shooting, specifically asking them to focus on fine-tuning the humor in the script. Even more specifically, he asked them to refine the humorous relationship between Shuri and T’Challa. Judging just how well their relationship went over with audiences, this obviously paid off in spades.