By Ryan Coogler recently spoke with Happy Sad Confused and revealed new details about his original script for “Black Panther 2”.
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” 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 “he was too sick to read it, bro. That was kind of how the timing was. He was at a place where it wasn’t gonna happen.”
He says after making the first one, he had gotten to know Boseman as a performer and “now I know what he can do… I’m going to push him to the limit.” Of the original version, he says: “I love that script. I put so much into that version of the movie.”
He then went on to reveal what plans for it would’ve been had Boseman still been alive and healthy:
“The 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… the rule is for those 8 days the prince can ask the father any question, and the father must answer.
In the course of those 8 days, Namor launches an attack… he had to deal with someone who’s 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’d have to violate this ritual, which had never been broken.”
While the original film was a father-son piece, the film that we ended up with was deliberately very different: “I got a chance to make a movie about women. I love that movie so much.” He also revealed he originally wanted Kraven the Hunter in the original “Black Panther” film, but wasn’t given the go-ahead by Sony, so he used Andy Serkis’ Ulysses Klaue instead.
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” landed good reviews and grossed over $859 million worldwide.
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