

But at the time, we told you that the date seemed unlikely.

When we first discussed Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s potential streaming release, we calculated that the movie could launch on or around December 26th. He said he thought about his closest childhood friends “and the ways that we ran together and how our lives changed over time.A poster showing King T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) during the funeral.

“And I don’t mean just romantic love, although there’s some of that as well. “It’s a hybrid espionage-superhero thriller, but at its core, it’s a love story,” Ridley said. In the new story, Black Panther receives an urgent message from a Wakandan operative who is in danger. “But being a young Black kid growing up, every time you saw a hero that looked like you, even if their background didn’t reflect my lived experience, it was just something that made you feel closer to the wish fulfillment that is intrinsic in graphic novel writing.” “First of all, Black Panther is just a great character in and of himself,” he said in a telephone interview. Ridley said he is eager for the chance to write the hero. (The current Black Panther series, which began in 2016 and has been written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, will conclude on May 26.)īlack Panther, created in 1966, is the first Black superhero in mainstream comics and hails from Wakanda, a fictional African country, where he is known as T’Challa and serves as king. It will be written by the Oscar winning screenwriter John Ridley (“12 Years a Slave”), and drawn by Juann Cabal. The Marvel Comics superhero Black Panther is getting a new series and a new creative team in August.
