Marvel Studios has dropped the first featurette of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. After the record-breaking success of the first film (2018), director Ryan Coogler wanted to see how Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa would grow as the king and protector of Wakanda in future MCU instalments. Unfortunately, the actor died due to colon cancer in 2020. Many industry experts believed that Marvel could recast the character. However, Kevin Feige confirmed that they would not recast T’Challa and the upcoming sequel would explore the world and honour Boseman’s legacy.
In the featurette, several cast members and the helmer share their experiences while shooting the sequel. Winston Duke (M’Baku) says that they suffered an incredible loss when they lost Chadwick.
Coogler reveals, “Chad was very much our artistic partner. I would spend time with him, just he and I talking about where we want to see the story go, how much he admired the other characters, and actors that portrayed them.”
Angela Bassett adds “they were all able to honour him, together” in the film. Lupita Nyong’o also discloses that returning to Wakanda was a “moving experience” and they filmed the project with a “sense of celebration”.
A lot of fans expected Letitia Wright’s Shuri to take the mantle in the absence of Boseman’s T’Challa. It has happened in the comics as well. This is what Wright says about the upcoming MCU entry, “There’s so much that’s happening in this movie is amazing, so many new characters to explore. Just seeing the world of Wakanda again and then now we’re going to this whole new world underwater.”
Tenoch Huerta will play one of the oldest Marvel characters in the film, Namor. He reveals that playing a character like Namor “is a dream” in the newly released featurette.
Apart from all the above-mentioned things, Wakanda Forever will explore the feminist themes from the first film. We will see broken but more mature versions of many female characters like Shuri (Wright), Nakia (Nyong’o), Okoye (Danai Gurira), and many more. Additionally, we have a brand new female character in the form of Riri Williams/Ironheart (Dominique Thorne) in the movie.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will arrive in theatres worldwide on November 11. Stay tuned for more updates.
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