'Black Panther' Director Ryan Coogler Reveals Original Sequel Story for Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa

Ryan Coogler, the director of the movie Black Panther, is sharing his original story idea for the sequel that was going to star Chadwick Boseman.

Chadwick passed away in August 2020 and the original script was rewritten to address his character T’Challa’s death.

In a new interview with The New York Times, Ryan spoke in-depth to reveal the original storyline.

Click inside to read more…

Ryan said, “It was, ‘What are we going to do about the Blip?’ [In Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War, T’Challa is one of billions of people who suddenly vanish, only to be brought back by the Avengers five years later.] That was the challenge. It was absolutely nothing like what we made. It was going to be a father-son story from the perspective of a father, because the first movie had been a father-son story from the perspective of the sons.”

“In the script, T’Challa was a dad who’d had this forced five-year absence from his son’s life. The first scene was an animated sequence. You hear Nakia [T’Challa’s love interest, played by Lupita Nyong’o] talking to Toussaint [the couple’s child, introduced in Wakanda Forever in a post-credits sequence]. She says, ‘Tell me what you know about your father.’ You realize that he doesn’t know his dad was the Black Panther. He’s never met him, and Nakia is remarried to a Haitian dude. Then, we cut to reality and it’s the night that everybody comes back from the Blip. You see T’Challa meet the kid for the first time,” Ryan continued. “Then it cuts ahead three years and he’s essentially co-parenting. We had some crazy scenes in there for Chad, man. Our code name for the movie was Summer Break, and the movie was about a summer that the kid spends with his dad. For his eighth birthday, they do a ritual where they go out into the bush and have to live off the land. But something happens and T’Challa has to go save the world with his son on his hip. That was the movie.”

Ryan also revealed that Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘ character Val originally had a bigger role.

Read more at NYTimes.com.

Letitia Wright recently opened up about losing Chadwick and filming the sequel without him.