How 'Wakanda Forever' producer Nate Moore pushed for Black heroes in the MCU
LOS ANGELES — Growing up in Clovis, California, near Fresno, young Nate Moore and his siblings occupied themselves with movies, video games, sports, books and — crucially — comics.
Every month or so, Moore and his older brother would walk three miles to a local comic book store and rummage through the 25-cent bin. When he got a little older, he absorbed obscure superhero lore by digging through the character bios of a Marvel role playing game he found at a B. Dalton bookseller.
Those idle hours provided the early education that would prepare him for his current role.
As a producer and executive at Walt Disney Co.'s Marvel Studios, Moore has played an instrumental role in some of the most successful superhero movies and series of the last decade, including "Captain America: Civil War," "Black Panther" and Disney+'s "Falcon and the Winter Soldier." His latest is "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," in theaters Friday, on which he shares full producer credit with Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige.
Moore, a 12-year veteran of the studio, plays a key part in Marvel's increasingly daunting interconnected web of continuity among
