

Swan took extra care to act alongside the character's hair as an additional appendage, before CGI was added to augment the 4 pounds (1.8 kg) wig she wore on set. Swan described "an immense codependence between" Medusa and Black Bolt, with Medusa helping Black Bolt create his sign language and forming a connection together that creates "this symbiosis that keeps them intertwined". The wife of Black Bolt and Queen of Attilan, who has the ability to control and move her hair. Sometimes the script would not include any specific lines for the character, and Mount would develop what he was signing himself.
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Mount created a document for his language with over 50 pages, and felt that if he could develop the language over several seasons, it could become a full conlang equivalent to Klingon or Dothraki. Mount borrowed the underlying rules of ASL but then "double-check my signs against ASL to make sure there is no overlap", and also studied orchestra conductors. He explained that since the character is not from Earth, he would not know Earth-based systems such as American Sign Language (ASL). Premiere director Roel Reiné told Mount to just use 15 or 16 signs, but Mount decided to create his own sign system.
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Buck specifically ruled out the series using voice over, with Black Bolt instead communicating via sign language.

Showrunner Scott Buck called Black Bolt enigmatic and fascinating because "a lot of times, we don't know what he's thinking", and noted the difficulty of writing a character who "does not speak, but yet he is our hero and the center of the show". The Head of the Inhuman Royal Family and King of Attilan, whose voice can cause destruction with the slightest whisper. Mount reprised his role as an alternate version of Black Bolt in Marvel Studios' MCU film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).Īfter a military coup, the Inhuman Royal Family escape to Hawaii, where they must save themselves and the world. The series was met with unfavorable reviews and low television ratings, and was canceled by ABC in May 2018.

The theatrical run lasted two weeks, before the series premiered on ABC on September 29 and ran for eight episodes, concluding on November 10. Inhumans debuted on IMAX screens on September 1, 2017, the first live-action television series to do so. Filming took place from March to June 2017, at the former Naval Air Station Barbers Point airfield in Kalaeloa, Hawaii and various locations on the island of Oahu. Buck joined the series in October, and Mount was cast in February 2017. The film was removed from Marvel Studios' slate in April 2016, and the Inhumans series was announced that November, to be partly filmed using IMAX cameras. Marvel Studios announced an Inhumans film in 2014 as part of their Phase Three slate of films, with the species first introduced to the MCU in the series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Serinda Swan, Ken Leung, Eme Ikwuakor, Isabelle Cornish, Ellen Woglom, and Iwan Rheon also star. The series is centered on Black Bolt, portrayed by Anson Mount, and other members of the Inhuman Royal Family. It was produced by ABC Studios and Marvel Television in association with Devilina Productions, and was co-financed by IMAX Entertainment in a deal that gave the series a theatrical premiere. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and acknowledges the franchise's other television series. Marvel's Inhumans, or simply Inhumans, is an American television series created by Scott Buck for ABC, based on the Marvel Comics race of the same name. Marvel Cinematic Universe television series
