If Chadwick Boseman was alive, Ryan Coogler says this would have been the story of Black Panther 2
17When a devastating bombshell was thrown on the globe, Ryan Coogler was deep into writing the script for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the follow-up to Marvel's 2018 record-breaking sensation Black Panther.
His 43-year-old star, Chadwick Boseman, passed away following a four-year struggle with colon cancer that he had kept secret from almost everyone.
There are lines that Coogler and his writing partner Joe Robert Cole intended for Chadwick Boseman's Avenger T'Challa that we will never hear him say, as Coogler has somberly mourned.
Coogler is now revealing specifics on what the original plot entailed prior to the actor's tragic passing as Wakanda Forever approaches its release without Boseman, following Shuri (Letitia Wright), Ramonda (Angela Bassett), and the people of Wakanda as they mourn their king's death and face a new threat from the underwater kingdom of Talocan.
“It was different,” Coogler tells Yahoo Entertainment. “It had similar themes, but it was very much rooted in his perspective. And he was going through some things personally that are relatable, different from what Shuri and Ramonda go through in this movie.
“I wrote some killer lines for him. It’s a strange thing to think about.”
The 36-year-old Fruitvale Station and Creed writer-director went into further detail about his early thoughts for this movie's premise in a different interview with Inverse released this week.
Grief was a major component in the comparable themes Coogler stated. T'Challa, on the other hand, was lamenting the passage of time that occurred when he vanished for five years as a result of Thanos's snap (causing "the blip") at the conclusion of Avengers: Infinity War in late 2018.
“The tone was going to be similar,” Coogler told Inverse. “The character was going to be grieving the loss of time, you know, coming back after being gone for five years. As a man with so much responsibility to so many, coming back after a forced five years absence, that’s what the film was tackling. He was grieving time he couldn’t get back. Grief was a big part of it.”
The major nemesis of Wakanda Forever, Tenoch Huerta's Namor, and his Mayan-inspired country, did not alter.
“There were other characters, for sure, that we considered including,” Coogler added. “Namor was always there.”
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