{"id":342792,"date":"2025-12-30T12:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342792\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:32:11","slug":"coogler-on-scrapped-black-panther-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/342792\/","title":{"rendered":"Coogler On Scrapped “Black Panther 2”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Marvel<\/p>\n

Ryan Coogler recently spoke with Happy Sad Confused<\/a> and revealed new details about his original script for \u201cBlack Panther 2\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d was famously retooled after star Chadwick Boseman died in 2020 following a battle with cancer. Coogler reveals he finished his original draft of the script and sent it to the actor, but \u201che was too sick to read it, bro. That was kind of how the timing was. He was at a place where it wasn\u2019t gonna happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says after making the first one, he had gotten to know Boseman as a performer and \u201cnow I know what he can do\u2026 I\u2019m going to push him to the limit.\u201d Of the original version, he says: \u201cI love that script. I put so much into that version of the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then went on to reveal what plans for it would\u2019ve been had Boseman still been alive and healthy:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big thing about the script was this thing called the Ritual of 8 where a prince is 8 years old, he must spend 8 days in the bush with his father\u2026 the rule is for those 8 days the prince can ask the father any question, and the father must answer.<\/p>\n

In the course of those 8 days, Namor launches an attack\u2026 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. He was engaging in negotiations, fights, and his son had to be right there, or he\u2019d have to violate this ritual, which had never been broken.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the original film was a father-son piece, the film that we ended up with was deliberately very different: \u201cI got a chance to make a movie about women. I love that movie so much.\u201d He also revealed he originally wanted Kraven the Hunter in the original \u201cBlack Panther\u201d film, but wasn\u2019t given the go-ahead by Sony, so he used Andy Serkis\u2019 Ulysses Klaue instead.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d landed good reviews and grossed over $859 million worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel Ryan Coogler recently spoke with Happy Sad Confused and revealed new details about his original script for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-342792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}