David Jonsson to Star in Sequel With 2028 Release

Black Panther 3 is prepared to claw its means into theaters.

Kevin Feige and director Ryan Coogler introduced throughout Marvel Studios‘panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday that the sequel function will movie on 70mm and hit theaters Dec. 15, 2028. The duo additionally revealed that David Johnson is about to star as an grownup model of the son of T’Challa, portrayed by the late Chadwick Boseman in the 2018 authentic.

Jonsson is a latest Hollywood breakout, with key roles in Alien: Romulus and The Long Walk. He additionally had a principal position on the primary two seasons of Industry.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ended with the revelation that Boseman’s T’Challa had a younger son with Lupita Nyong’o’s Nakia. Given that that is Marvel, it is attainable that some type of time soar or different components are concerned to age him up for the sequel. The movie can even come after subsequent yr’s Avengers: Secret Wars and can probably have an effect on the bigger MCU.

The Black Panther movie franchise kicked off with the 2018 title, starring Boseman as T’Challa. With a forged that included Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke and Angela Bassett, the movie was a smash hit, amassing $1.3 billion on the international field workplace and turning into the primary superhero function to land an Academy Award nomination for finest image.

Boseman was set to reprise his lead position in a deliberate sequel earlier than his dying in 2020 after a personal battle with colon most cancers. The follow-up movie’s focus shifted to Wright’s character, Shuri, taking over the mantle of Black Panther following the dying of brother T’Challa. The sequel, Wakanda Foreverhit theaters in 2022 and surpassed $850 million on the worldwide field workplace. It received an Oscar from 5 nominations, with Bassett turning into the primary performer nominated for an Academy Award for a efficiency in a Marvel film.

Among the highlights of this yr’s Marvel panel at SDCC included Ryan Gosling taking the stage to reveal his role as Ghost Rider in a future function from Shawn Levy, his director for subsequent yr’s Star Wars: Starfighter.