It was an eventful night of Marvel Studios news at the San Diego Comic-Con. This included news from the final film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s fourth phase, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
The sequel to the 2018 Black Panther film is due out on November 11, 2022 and will close out the fourth phase of the MCU. Wakanda Forever will be the first movie to feature a Black Panther without T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), who sadly passed away August 28, 2020. However his presence was felt in the first trailer which debuted at SDCC on Saturday night.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is being directed by Ryan Coogler, who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole, and stars Letitia Wright as as Shuri, Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia, Danai Gurira as Okoye, Winston Duke as M’Baku, Tenoch Huerta as Namor, Florence Kasumba, Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel, Martin Freeman, and Angela Bassett. In the film, the kingdom of Wakanda fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. Coogler and Cole directed and co-wrote the first film respectively.
In the powerful trailer we are introduced to Namor the Sub-Mariner as well his Atlantean family. Namor and the City of Atlantis make their debuts in the film and by the looks of it, have a major role to play. Wakanda, Atlantis, Kings, Queens, Black Panthers and much more make this epic conclusion to Phase 4 a much anticipated film.
Wakanda Forever will also debut the character of Ironheart prior to her television series in 2023 as part of Phase 5. We even get a quick glimpse of who is next in line for the title of Black Panther in the final seconds of the teaser trailer.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was also announced as the final film of the MCU Phase 4 slate with Ant-Man and Wasp: Quantumania kicking-off Phase 5 in February 2023.
