David Jonsson to Play T’Challa II
Today at San Diego Comic-Condirector Ryan Coogler took the stage to announce that Black Panther 3 just isn’t solely hitting theaters on Dec. 18, 2028, however that David Johnson will play T’Challa’s grown son who was launched on the finish of Wakanda Forever.
T’Challa comes of age within the new film with eyes on the crown of Wakanda.
Denzel Washington can also be within the forged as beforehand introduced.
The first Black Panther in 2018 grossed $1.3 billion and gained three Oscars. The pic launched Chadwick Boseman as a star within the position of T’Challa, the chief of Wakanda and a world superhero. Boseman died of most cancers in August 2020 after a battle with most cancers. Wakanda Forever, the Black Panther sequel, performed out the occasions of T’Challa’s demise. That movie went on to $859M and gained an Oscar for Ruth Carter’s Costume Design.
Jonsson’s latest earlier movies, each The Long Walk (2025) directed by Francis Lawrence and Alien: Romulus (2024) had Hall H shows, conserving within the vein of the San Diego Convention Center. Coogler launched Jonsson with point out of The Long Walkby which the actor starred alongside Cooper Hoffman. Based on the e book by Stephen King, the 2 younger males painting characters who forge an unlikely friendship in, fairly actually, a stroll to the demise.
Black Panther forged members Letitia Wright and Winston Duke additionally joined Coogler, Feige and Jonsson onstage. Jonsson’s character, Toussaint, aka T’Challa II was launched within the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) in a post-credit scene to the movie by Lupita Nyong’o’s Nakia. Rihannah’s “Lift Me Up” then performed because the credit rolled.
