*Marvel has dropped a new trailer for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” which is set for a Nov. 11 release in U.S. theaters.
This newer and longer trailer shows a mysterious new Black Panther, who appears to be a woman and many are concluding that this is Shuri (played by Leticia Wright). Check out the exciting new trailer below, which includes a lovely tribute to late actor Chadwick Boseman. As you know, Boseman died in 2020 after a private battle with colon cancer.
The teaser trailer for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” was released in July and it received 172 million views in its first 24 hours.
Marvel’s VP of Development, Nate More, previously noted that the studio will not recast Boseman’s T’Challa in any future MCU projects.
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“You will not see T’Challa in the MCU 616 universe,” Moore said in the Twitter video below. “We couldn’t do it. I will say, when Chad passed, it was a real conversation we had with Coogler about ‘what do we do?’ And it was a fast conversation. It wasn’t weeks, it was minutes of, ‘We have to figure out how to move this franchise on without that character.’”
Moore continued, “Because I think we all feel so much of T’Challa in the MCU on the screen, not the comics, is tied to Chadwick’s performance, is what he brought to that role, on and off screen, I would argue. So as hard as it is narratively to figure out what to do because that’s a big hole, at no point did we consider recasting him. So the challenge for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is telling a story without T’Challa.”
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige recently told Empire that he and “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler discussed how to honor Boseman in the upcoming sequel.
“The conversations were entirely about, yes, ‘What do we do next? And how could the legacy of Chadwick and what he had done to help Wakanda and the Black Panther become these incredible, aspirational, iconic ideas–continue? That’s what it was all about.”
MCU VP of Development Nate Moore puts to rest any discussion about recasting the character of T’challa as Black Panther. Says he talked with Ryan Coogler about it, and “we just couldn’t do it” more on @RingerVerse. T’challa is gone guys you agree or no? pic.twitter.com/MYoWKyqlmF
— Van Lathan Jr (@VanLathan) November 14, 2021
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