Black Panther Sequel – News, Cast, Date, Trailer, Spoilers

So far, there have been five different versions of the script.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Angela Bassett, who plays Queen Mother Ramonda, revealed that the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever movie script is up in the air as the cast and crew continue to film in Atlanta. “I don’t know what it’s going to look like at all,” Bassett told the outlet. “There have been about five incarnations of the script, and I hear another one’s coming.

“Of course, with our dear king [Boseman] going on to glory, a lot of things had to be shifted and changed. So, thankfully, [director] Ryan [Coogler] and [writer] Joe Robert Cole, they’re just such masterful storytellers that they’ve found a way into this world and hopefully it will be satisfying, I think, for the fans, and it will be honorable of our Chad. We love our king,” Bassett explained.

T’Challa will not be recast.

After Boseman’s death in August, the future of T’Challa’s role in the franchise was in flux. Per THR, no one at Marvel was aware of the actor’s private cancer battle, which he only revealed to a tight-knit circle of people. A source close to Boseman told the outlet that up until his death, he believed he would recover and shoot the sequel. Disney has now confirmed that T’Challa will not be recast and that instead the character will be honored in another, yet-to-be-revealed way.

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The original cast is welcoming at least multiple new members.

Many of the actors from 2018’s Black Panther will return for the sequel. These include Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Letita Wright as Shuri (in a more major role, per THR), Winston Duke as M’Baku, Daniel Kaluuya as W’Kabi, and Angela Bassett as Queen Mother Ramonda. Less likely to reprise his role is Michael B. Jordan as Killmonger, as that character met his demise in the first film. (However, death rarely lasts long in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.)

Sources told The Hollywood Reporter in November that Tenoch Huerta (Narcos: Mexico, Spectre) will reportedly play one of the film’s antagonists, though no additional character details have been revealed. And while speculation about Rihanna joining Wakanda has not been substantiated, there is reason to celebrate as another major name was recently announced: I May Destroy You‘s Michaela Coel has joined the production, per Variety. No news yet on whether she’ll have any superpowers (she better!), but her presence alone is enough to cast an even stronger glow of prestige around the highly anticipated follow-up.