The Godfather references, of course, lie within the tensions surrounding the Wakandan royal family.
The Bond elements will come partially in the form of Lupita Nyong’o’s Nakia, Wakanda’s undercover operative and a former lover of T’Challa’s, described by Nyong’o herself as something of “a war dog”.
The film will drop us straight into the centre of Wakanda, an African nation possessing incredible technology but which hides itself from the outside world, and whose new king T’Challa (AKA the Black Panther) finds his sovereignty threatened by two enemies conspiring to bring the entire kingdom down.