Whatever happened to the planned Mansa Musa movie?

[BrownBunny]

The one that Ryan Coogler was supposed to direct? Is it still getting made? I remember there being press on it before Black Panther.


Coogler is the perfect director, the only problem is that he wanted Michael B. Jordan for the role.

This are the kind of movies that should be getting made instead of gang and Tyler Perry bullshyt

A good flick would create greater pride and interest in West African history rather than the lame hyper fixation on Ancient Egypt.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

This happened....​

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[mbewane]

The one that Ryan Coogler was supposed to direct? Is it still getting made? I remember there being press on it before Black Panther.


Coogler is the perfect director, the only problem is that he wanted Michael B. Jordan for the role.

This are the kind of movies that should be getting made instead of gang and bullshyt

A good flick would create greater pride and interest in West African history rather than the lame hyper fixation on Ancient Egypt.

Great point, the whole fact that a lot of Black people make it a crusade to connect themselves with Ancient Egypt but totally overlook other African empires and kingdoms has always been strange to me.

 

[BrownBunny]

Great point, the whole fact that a lot of Black people make it a crusade to connect themselves with Ancient Egypt but totally overlook other African empires and kingdoms has always been strange to me.

I don’t get it either. Even if the Ancient Egyptians were all Black as night, it’s like English people ignoring the history of Anglo-saxons and Britons to gas up Frankish and Germanic rulers. We have no direct ancestral ties to those people. As far as that side of the continent, I find the Nubians more interesting.

The worst part is when people try to claim Cleopatra. She was a terrible leader and she wasn’t even a true Egyptian. She was a Greek incest baby.

It’s becoming more and more common for role of Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra to be played by a Black woman.

 

[Sbp]

Egypt is the greatest empire there ever was of course people are gonna be fixated on it. But this thread is about Musa and Mali so lets keep Kemet out if this.

 

[BrownBunny]

Egypt is the greatest empire there ever was of course people are gonna be fixated on it. But this thread is about Musa and Mali so lets keep Kemet out if this.

 

[Undefined187]

What would be the plot of the movie?

 

[Sbp]

This doesn't make sense

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Egypt is the greatest empire there ever was of course people are gonna be fixated on it.

No, it wasn't.....unless you meant 'the greatest in Africa'.​

 

[seanDON]

What would be the plot of the movie?

Maybe it could be about his pilgrimage to Mecca and some side stories or events that happened during that trip

 

[Paper Boi]

some the posts in this thread

 

[BrownBunny]

This doesn't make sense

Mansa Musa was so wealthy that he destroyed Egypt’s economy with inflation after spending so much money in Cairo.

 

[Roid Jones]

The one that Ryan Coogler was supposed to direct? Is it still getting made? I remember there being press on it before Black Panther.


Coogler is the perfect director, the only problem is that he wanted Michael B. Jordan for the role.

This are the kind of movies that should be getting made instead of gang and Tyler Perry bullshyt

A good flick would create greater pride and interest in West African history rather than the lame hyper fixation on Ancient Egypt.

Maybe it's still being planned, did you expect them to drop it a week after it was spoken about?

 

[Sbp]

Mansa Musa was so wealthy that he destroyed Egypt’s economy with inflation after spending so much money in Cairo.

Breh that was in the middle ages looooooong after the Egyptian empire fell.

 

[Koba St]

If it’s being made then it’ll be financed by black people. Do you really think cacs and Jews are going to finance a movie about a great African empire and king?