

'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Will Honor Chadwick Boseman: Everything We Know About the Movie

Okoye actress Danai Gurirasaid it was important to honor both the actor and character’s legacies.Ĭredit: Photo by Marvel/Disney/Kobal/Shutterstock “And Ryan Coogler has some really, really exciting ideas that I look forward to bringing to life with the rest of the family.”Īfter unveiling the first trailer in July 2022 at San Diego Comic-Con, it became clear that the movie characters will be grieving the death of T’Challa in the sequel. “It’s gonna be different, of course, without our king to go back into that world, but I know that all of us are dedicated to reimagining or carrying on his legacy in this new Black Panther,” the Oscar winner said during a March 2021 appearance on Good Morning America. Lupita Nyong’o, who played Nakia in the first film and will reprise the role for the November 2022 film, agreed with the director. He was hired to play that role before anybody else was even thought of, before I was hired, before any of the actresses were hired.” “He was somebody who was so about the collective. “I know Chad wouldn’t have wanted us to stop,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in March 2021. Ryan Coogler, who signed on to write and direct the sequel after directing and cowriting the first, thinks Boseman would want everyone involved in the franchise to press on without him. “Our king, unfortunately, has died in real life, not just in fiction, and we are taking time to see how we continue the story and what we do to honor this chapter of what has happened to us that was so unexpected, so painful, so terrible, really.” “There’s only one Chadwick and he’s not with us,” she told Argentinean outlet Clarin in November 2020. Marvel executive Victoria Alonso has also said the studio has no plans to digitally recreate Boseman’s image for the film.
