How Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Matched Its Underwater Shots To The Ones On Land [Exclusive]

This post contains mild spoilers for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”Ryan Coogler’s film “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is a vast and complex fantasy film that centers on a potential war between the titular high-tech fictional African nation and the vast, ultra-powered underwater Mesoamerican/futurist kingdom of Talokan.

The former uses an underground deposit of a rare, magical metal called vibranium to power advanced, fantastical machines like flying saucers and feather-light, indestructible, flying suits of armor.

The latter also possesses a store of vibranium and has constructed a miniature underwater sun, that has sustained a lost race of merpeople for generations.

While the plot of “Wakanda Forever” occasionally gets lost in the (sea)weeds, its envisioning of two rival fantasy countries is one of the more impressive visual accomplishments of the year’s cinema.”Wakanda Forever” was impressively photographed by cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw, and her job was made especially complicated

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