{"id":380112,"date":"2025-12-30T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380112\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:23:08","slug":"ryan-coogler-details-original-vision-for-black-panther-2-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380112\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Coogler Details Original Vision For ‘Black Panther 2’ Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRyan Coogler<\/a> detailed the original vision for Black Panther<\/a> 2 ahead of star Chadwick Boseman<\/a>\u2018s death from colon cancer at the age of 43 in August 2020.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI finished it, and I hit him up to read it, and he was too sick to read, bro. That was kind of how the timing was,\u201d he explained on a new episode of Josh Horowitz\u2019s Happy Sad Confused podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe big thing about the script was a thing called the Ritual of 8 where, [when] a prince is 8 years old, he has to go spend 8 days in the bush with his father,\u201d the Sinners writer-helmer explained. \u201cThe rule is for those 8 days the prince can ask the father any question and the father has to answer. During the course of those 8 days, Namor [played by Tenoch Huerta in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever<\/a>] launches an attack \u2026 and it was a different version of Namor in that script, but he had to deal with someone who\u2019s insanely dangerous, but because of this ritual, his son had to be joined at his hip the whole time \u2026 or else they\u2019d have to violate this ritual that had never been broken. It was insane, and Chadwick was going to kill it, but life goes as it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCoogler continued of the 180-page draft he had written: \u201cI loved that script. I put so much into that version of the movie because I felt like I had gotten to know Chadwick as a performer \u2026 I threw a lot at Chad in the first Panther, but I realized I was just scratching the surface.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, the filmmaker, who is the beginning stages of reviving The X Files for television, noted that with the Black Panther sequel he \u201cgot a chance to make a movie about women, which was so\u2014 I love that movie so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere, the Fruitvale Station director fondly remembered Boseman: \u201cOur relationship was very interesting \u2019cause he meant a lot of me but I found out after his passing from his family and his friends about how much I meant to him, which fucked me up pretty good. I wondered if he knew just how much he meant to me. I did wonder, but he protected me from a lot; our relationship was one of a lot of protection. I was convinced, on the toughest days on Panther, that I was gonna get fired \u2026 He was like, \u2018I would never let that happen to you.’\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tCoogler, who has since confirmed the Marvel threequel will be his next feature project<\/a>, said of Black Panther 3<\/a> that he understands those who are skeptical of a new installment.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m in it for my heart. I got this movie on my heart,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd yeah, from the outside looking in, you might say, \u2018Man, why this fucking dude making another one of those?\u2019 But that\u2019s totally fine, that question makes sense. And it\u2019s my job as a filmmaker to show why.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Coogler detailed the original vision for Black Panther 2 ahead of star Chadwick Boseman\u2018s death from colon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,83178,166185,72526,170762,134,6860,8414,344,70836],"class_list":{"0":"post-380112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-black-panther","11":"tag-black-panther-3","12":"tag-black-panther-wakanda-forever","13":"tag-chadwick-boseman","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-marvel","16":"tag-mcu","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-ryan-coogler"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}