The chant “Wakanda Forever ” isn’t going to die some times soon. The Black Panther was a highly successful superhero movie and one of the highest-grossing films of that year. The success of the first film paved the way for the second film in the franchise. But fans were in for a shock when Black Panther 2 missed reveal at Comic-Con International 2019. Later Disney confirmed the film’s future at its D23 convention.
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 24: (L-R) Ryan Coogler of ‘Black Panther 2’ and President of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige took part today in the Walt Disney Studios presentation at Disneys D23 EXPO 2019 in Anaheim, Calif. ‘Black Panther 2’ will be released in U.S. theaters on May 6, 2020. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney)
Ryan Coogler will return as director and writer for Black Panther 2. He claimed that he is well aware of the inevitable pressure of replicating his success. Ryan said that “When it comes to making a sequel, I’ve never done it before — a sequel to something that I’ve directed myself. So I think there’s going to be a lot of pressure there, but what we’re going to try to do is just focus on the work, like we always do. We’ll really try to go step by step and try to quiet everything else around us, really focus on trying to make something that has some type of meaning.”
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What will the plot in Black Panther 2?
Well, Marvel guards its secrets really well. No one is completely sure until the film is actually released. But still, there are some predictions and some hints by the Marvel boss.
Marvel studio boss Kevin Feige provided some hints. He said “One of the favorite pastimes at Marvel Studios is sitting around on a Part One and talking and dreaming about what we would do in Part Two. There have been plenty of those conversations as we were putting together the first Black Panther. We have ideas and a pretty solid direction on where we want to head with the second one.”
Kevin also hinted that the upcoming Black Panther movie that also will focus on the history of rulers of Wakanda. There are many questions that fascinate the audience about the history of Black Panther and of T’Challa’s family history.
He said that “We would talk about the ancestral plane sequence where, towards the end of the movie, T’Challa takes the herb again and encounters his father, where he’s like, ‘Hey, man. We’ve kind of screwed up, and I want to change it. There’s that moment where all of the ancestors come behind T’Chaka. We would joke and go, ‘I want to see … what’s their story? What’s that story? Who was Bashenga, the first king of Wakanda? Who’s that third to the left, behind T’Chaka? What was their story in Wakanda in 1938? That would be cool.’ It all starts as conversations like that. The more audiences want to see these stories, the more opportunities we have to explore different places and times.
Who will be the antagonist in Black Panther 2?
There has been no official announcement by Marvel. But still, fans have made their theories.
Rumors are strong that once again Wakanda will be under attack int the sequel. This time possibly from Namor or Princess Zanda to capture Wakanda. Some even have suggested that Erik Killmonger played by Michael Jordan will return once again to claim the throne from his cousin. The fans believe that there was some chance of Killmonger’s revival as he was not dead but badly wounded in the first movie. Well, anything is possible in Marvel Universe.