Ryan Coogler Talks Introducing A New Black Panther After Chadwick Boseman’s Death

It’s been two years since the death of Chadwick Boseman brought the world to a halt and caught us completely off guard – while putting a question mark over the future of the “Black Panther” saga in the MCU. After all, Marvel Studios had said it wouldn’t be recasting T’Challa’s role in the sequel, prompting execs to introduce a titular new hero.

At the premiere of ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’, director Ryan Coogler spoke about this complicated decision and once again honored Boseman’s legacy.

“It’s complicated, it’s complicated,” he said in an interview with Deadline. “What I will say is that Chadwick was always pushing things forward while being aware of what was going on behind him. This concept is one of the things that I still hold onto in terms of the lessons it taught me. He was also very brilliant at understanding moments, understanding the moment he was in. So that’s what I was trying to do, I was trying to channel it through this process. Understanding that we had to move on even though we had physically lost it. He was a giant man, the screen couldn’t contain him. To watch his films is to know only a part of him. We feel so lucky to have known you and we try to honor you. [na sequência]”.

Current box office analysis is that the sequel will gross AT LEAST $175 million in its opening weekend (November 11-13) in the US alone. These projections are considered conservative, as Marvel Studios and Disney have yet to begin major promotional and marketing efforts for the film.

The original film opened to $202 million in the United States in February 2018, breaking records. It ended up grossing $1.34 billion worldwide and transformed Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa – and the kingdom of Wakanda – into some of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s biggest milestones.

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“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is expected to end its run at the domestic box office with an estimated value between $445 million and $590 million.

The original ended its run with $700 million.

Still, the sequel could be more profitable than Marvel’s latest titles like ‘Shang-Chi’ ($224.5 million), ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ ($411.3 million) and ‘ Thor: Love and Thunder’ ($343.2 million). million).

Remember that the values ​​in parentheses refer to the American box office.

Directed by Ryan Coogler, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” opens November 10 and stars Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, Winston Duke, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Danai Gurira, Tenoch Huerta and Michaela Coel.

Check out the trailer and synopsis:

“In “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”, Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke), Okoye (Danai Gurira) and Dora Milaje (including Florence Kasumba) fight to protect your nation of the intervening powers of the world after the death of King T’Challa.As the Wakandans struggle to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must unite with the help of Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman ) to chart a new path to the kingdom of Wakanda. Featuring Tenoch Huerta as Namor, king of a secret undersea nation, the film also stars Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel, Mabel Cadena and Alex Livanalli.

The first “Black Panther” was released in 2018 and made a huge box office boom, grossing over $1.3 billion worldwide. Additionally, it became the first superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.

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