Wakanda Forever The New Black Panther Trailer

Marvel had a busy year in 2022, but the studio’s most significant release is still some time off. Our greatest look yet at Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which debuts on Nov. 11, and how the franchise’s protagonists grieve the loss of Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa and continue on his legacy, is available today thanks to a new teaser.

The teaser begins with a moving image from what looks to be T’Challa’s burial, showing his sister Shuri (Letitia Wright) and mother Ramonda (Angela Bassett) holding his helmet. The last image before the title card features a new figure dressed in Black Panther gear, who is most likely Shuri: The new mask has the same dot pattern as her face does earlier in the video, as astute social media users noticed.

(Shuri has already played the part of Black Panther in comic books, most notably in the late 2000s when the wife of a severely injured T’Challa nominated her for the position, and in a number of issues afterward.) Although Wright did not reveal Shuri’s fate in an interview with EMPIRE, she did say that portraying the character allowed her time to grieve the devastating loss of her friend and coworker Boseman. I’ve been able to cry, laugh, and find strength that I never thought I could have because to Shuri’s journey, she added.

The Jabari clan chief M’Baku (Winston Duke), the leader of the Dora Milaje Okoye (Danai Gurira), and famed spy Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o), who was once involved with T’Challa, are among the other returning characters seen in the teaser. Namor, the main enemy of Wakanda Forever, is also introduced in the new trailer (Tenoch Huerta). In the aftermath of T’Challa lifting the shroud of secrecy over Wakanda’s future actual identity, Huerta advised his people to “take action to preserve themselves” on behalf of the undersea society Talocan, whose ruler is Namor (also known as the Sub-Mariner in the comics).

Since the release of the original Black Panther movie, Namor has been the intended antagonist for a follow-up, and there were initial intentions to tease him at the film’s conclusion in 2018. The origins and style of Namor’s kingdom are altered in Wakanda Forever, where they are more Mayan culture-inspired than ancient Greek history-inspired. (The trailer emphasises the experienced costume designer Ruth E. Carter and production designer Hannah Beachler’s amazing attention to detail and elaborate world-building during the burial scene and the establishing vistas of Talocan. Both women earned Oscars for their work on the original Panther.

Ryan Coogler

The writer-director Ryan Coogler claimed in a recent Entertainment Weekly cover story that after actor Chadwick Boseman passed away in August 2020, “I didn’t know if I could create another movie period, [much alone] another Black Panther movie, because it hurt so much.” But it was only after thinking back on discussions he and Boseman had in their latter years did he decide he wanted to continue working. I was afraid to begin this shoot because I couldn’t see how we would move on without Chadwick “Nyongo spoke to EW. “It was beyond my comprehension. But Ryan’s emotional, accurate, and compelling vision manages to honour his life and his contribution to the movie as well as ours.

Kevin Feige discussed the choice not to replace T’Challa in the EMPIRE movie. He stated, “It simply felt like it was way too soon to recast. Stan Lee has remarked that Marvel depicts the world outside your window. And we had discussed how everything we produce has a relatable and human component, despite how incredible and otherworldly our characters and storylines are. The loss of Chad is still being processed by society. Ryan [Coogler] infused that into the narrative.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which opens on November 11 and is expected to be the MCU’s second-longest movie to date (behind Endgame) with a runtime of 2 hours 42 minutes, has advance tickets available immediately.