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The original Black Panther 2 plot prior to Chadwick Boseman's death comes to light
The director of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever explains what the film was like before the loss of the famous actor in 2020, closely tied to Avengers: Endgame.
In just over a week, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the new Marvel Studios movie that promises to be a tribute to the sadly deceased Chadwick Boseman, the MCU's Black Panther until now, will be released in theaters. Now, and as a result of a recent interview with director and screenwriter Ryan Coogler, we know how the original plot of the film was before the passing of its main protagonist, a story much more closely linked to the events of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, although with a theme that remains in force in the new version: grief.
This is what the original story of Black Panther 2 was like
The original Black Panther 2 script was about mourning the five years lost in the wake of T'Challa's disappearance by Thanos' fateful snap, a story that revolved around the Wakandan protector's disappearance between Infinity War and his return in Endgame.
“The tone was going to be similar,” Coogler says. “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.”
Mind you, after the sad news of Chadwick Boseman's passing, the filmmaker had to rewrite the film with his colleague Joe Robert Cole to reroute the story, even though Namor was always present as the main antagonist: “Who the protagonist was, the flaws of the protagonist, what the protagonist was dealing with in their journey, all of that stuff had to be different due to us losing him and the decisions that we made about moving forward,” concludes Ryan Coogler.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opens in theaters on November 11, 2022. With Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, and Angela Bassett returning to their roles from the first film, now joined by Tenoch Huerta as Namor and Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams/Ironheart.
Source | Inverse