The project faced several production concerns over the last two years and it turns out that director Ryan Coogler nearly abandoned the sequel after Chadwick’s death. According to Coogler, the T’Challa actor’s death made him doubt his filmmaking future. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, the Oscar-nominated director revealed that he nearly quit not just Wakanda Forever, but the entire industry as he was coming to terms with his good friend’s absence. Coogler explains: “I was at a point when I was like, ’I’m walking away from this business,’ I didn’t know if I could make another movie period, [let alone] another Black Panther movie, because it hurt a lot. I was like, ’Man, how could I open myself up to feeling like this again?’“He later added that it was also the late actor who made him realize that he needs to continue the project and move forward. “I was poring over a lot of our conversations that we had, towards what I realized was the end of his life. I decided that it made more sense to keep going.“Also Read: Marvel Studios is No Longer Trying to Hide Identity of New Black PantherYou can already tell how emotionally charged Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is going to be and the franchise’s official send-off to T’Challa is guaranteed to leave a lot of people crying in the cinema.Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will hit theaters on November 11, 2022.
