Black Panther Wakanda Forever Original Story Before Chadwick Boseman Passed?

Black Panther Wakanda Forever is a powerful tribute to Chadwick Boseman and the character of T'Challa, a product of a challenging task by the film's creative team to tell the story of Wakanda without its frontman and pay respect to the legacy he left. But as the weeks have gone on, the director, Ryan Coogler, and co-writer, Joe Robert Cole, have finally revealed their original plan, concept, story, and script for Black Panther 2 when they still planned on T'Challa being the focus of the story, before Chadwick Boseman died. Erik Voss investigates their interviews and writing choices to analyze how this script came together, and what had to be changed.

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Written by Erik Voss
Producer: Zach Huddleston
Producer: Brandon Barrick
Post Production Supervisor: Riley Auskelis
Staff Editors: Drew Coombs, Joshua Steven Hurd
Editor: Songvit Kiatpiriya
Camera Operator: Dashiell Hamingson

[Jadxn]

“He was too tired to read it” he put all his energy into the movies before his passing 😔

[toogreat]

Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole did an excellent job with the sequel. To contend with Covid and the untimely death of Chadwick weighing heavy on all their hearts, was a monumental feat to deliver this movie to us and I thank them.

[taylorxtaylor_xo]

While I would have loved to see this version with Chadwick in it, they really did an impossible job turning this movie into what we saw in theaters. I’ve seen it twice now and I’m still blow away about how amazing of a job they did!

[darkrift]

This is really sad for me to think about. How hard it was for this movie to even be created during a real life tragedy.

[kenmrgentleman]

Dang wish we saw the original script come to life with chadwick in it 😥😥

[backstage]

this movie was so beautiful it's just so sad that its hard for us to not think about what if chadwick hadn't passed away hope he is resting in peace he worked so hard while he was here❤🕊

[alpanago]

I think instead of killing M’Bakku, they would kill Nakia and the loss of his love and mother of his child would be his struggle
Think about how hard all of that would be with the child plot on top of it all

[TDizzzzle]

Chadwick would have put on the best MCU performance ever with this script. Rip forever king

[ZaNeCuDdEr]

I think the killmonger ansestrial plane with chadwick would be somewhat the same convo but adding his kid in it which strangely is a parallel where killmongers father gets killed permanently which set him twards his path while tachalla(a father) was presumed "dead" but gets to come back and do better

[qcrew]

So cool how they were able to pivot to a completely different script and still make it amazing!

[gatermantv]

I lost my sister to cancer this all hits home for me

[zaimusic_]

Lil Toussaint looks just like Chadwick too. My God!

[trystinlindsay]

Coogler feels too young to be this brilliant

[rubykgarrett]

just finished watching this movie and i can't stop crying hell yeah 😎

[andymingni]

All things considered it was one of the better movies of phase 4 despite the setbacks.

[NosePrint]

Such an excellent deep dive @ericvoss, thanks for your work

[logicandemma]

Really liked the movie think it was excuted better than the previous one, but I still feel like if Chadwick was still alive and kicking with the original script. I think it would've been better. But that's really just me making some crazy assumptions.

[VidWatcher]

MBJ looked beautiful in that scene😍❤️😍❤️😍

[henry]

Just saw the movie after watching your vid, and yeah it was magnificent.
so thanks for being the push that got me to go see it.

[WilliamJames]

He said “Mercutio”.. Harold Perrineau comments “♥️”