At San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel announced that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will be the final film in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will arrive in theaters on November 11, 2022.
The fourth phase of the MCU began with WandaVision, the first of the Disney Plus TV shows that were canon in the MCU. The first film was Black Widow, which came out in July 2021. The company announced the schedule and release dates for Phase 5 at SDCC 2022, with representatives promising that the next phase is about “resetting and introducing new characters.”
One of these new characters will be Namor, the King of Atlantis, played by Tenoch Huerta, last seen in The Forever Purge. As underwater royalty, Namor has a distaste for the surface world that often puts him at odds with the superheroes of the Marvel universe—and has a very specific rivalry with T’Challa that will likely be revisited in this version of the story.
Riri Williams (Dominic Thorne), the teenager who fashions her own Iron Man-style armor to become the hero Iron Heart, will also appear.
Of course, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will feature major returning characters such as Shuri (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke) and Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o).
Between the premiere of the original Black Panther and its sequel, star Chadwick Boseman, who played T’Challa, the Black Panther of the MCU, passed away after a silent battle with cancer. Marvel president Kevin Feige has made it clear in the past that T’Challa’s role will not be recast.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever also brings back characters like Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman), Ramonda (Angela Bassett), and Okoye (Danai Gurira). The Black Panther sequel will also bring back the original film’s director Ryan Coogler, who also wrote Wakanda Forever with Joe Robert Cole, Coogler’s collaborator on the original.
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