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Ryan Kyle Coogler (born May 23, 1986) is an American filmmaker. He has received an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, four Black Reel Awards, a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and ten NAACP Image Awards. Coogler directed a few short films at the USC School of Cinematic Arts before his feature-length debut with Fruitvale Station (2013). He then transitioned to directing and writing franchise films, including the Rocky series spinoff, Creed (2015), as well as the Marvel films Black Panther (2018) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). Coogler also produced the historical drama Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) and the supernatural horror film Sinners (2025), which he also wrote and directed. He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture for both films, while for Sinners, he was also nominated for Best Director and won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. In 2013, he was included on Time's list of the 30 people under 30 who are changing the world. In 2018, Coogler was named the runner-up of Time's Person of the Year, and he was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2021, Coogler, his wife, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian founded multimedia production company Proximity Media. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ryan Coogler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In this alternate timeline, arch-segregationist George Wallace wins the 1968 election, and begins his plan to segregate the whole United States, helped and funded by the KKK, Neo-Nazis and Neo-Confederate institutions. New York student Peter Parker, secretly the world-famous superhero Spider-man, is pointed as a communist and a race traitor by the FBI for "integrating" with minorities. Peter lives with his aunt May and Uncle Ben, both Quakers, are killed by Skinheads for hiding blacks in their house. So is Sam Jones, an African-American Vietnam vet and the widowed father of Peter's biracial girlfriend MJ, who knows about his identity. Wanting to restore the order and avenging their relatives, Peter, MJ and Peter's friend Harry decide to capturing Wallace and making the people revolt against the oppressors, while being attacked by Neo-Confederate and segregationist newspaper Daily Bugle.
