In the wake of Boseman’s death, Coogler decided to reconceive the film as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and to incorporate Boseman’s (and T’Challa’s) death into the narrative.
Before Chadwick Boseman’s shocking death in 2020 after a private battle with colon cancer, Ryan Coogler had already working on a script for a sequel to Black Panther that would have focused on Boseman’s T’Challa and his continuing story.
‘I was at a point when I was like, ‘I’m walking away from this business,’’ Coogler, 36, admits.
Now the movie is about Wakanda after the passing of its beloved king, and how the country moves forward without him.