Overview
- On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Coogler outlined an early Black Panther 2 built on a Wakandan 'Ritual of Eight' in which T’Challa and his eight-year-old son venture into the bush.
- He said Namor would launch an attack during that ritual, forcing T’Challa to negotiate and fight with his son at his side because the tradition could not be broken.
- Coogler confirmed he finished the 180-page script and sent it to Chadwick Boseman, who was too sick to read it before his death in 2020.
- Following Boseman’s passing, the sequel was reworked into Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which centered on Shuri and earned more than $859 million worldwide.
- Coogler confirmed a third Black Panther film is in development as his next MCU project, with plot and casting unannounced by Marvel as outlets report Denzel Washington’s potential involvement.