“Now it’s time to talk about forever,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said when introducing Black Panther: Wakanda Forever during the studio’s Comic-Con panel on Saturday. The sequel, which went into production after the death of Black Panther leading man Chadwick Boseman in August 2020, will pay tribute to the late actor and his character, King T’Challa of Wakanda. As revealed by the first Black Panther 2 trailer that debuted at Comic-Con, the nation led by Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) and Princess Shuri (Letitia Wright) is mourning their king, who died sometime after the events of Avengers: Endgame. “He is,” Feige told Entertainment Tonight when it was pointed out that Boseman’s spirit was “pulsing” through the cast of Wakanda Forever, who became emotional when presenting the first look at the sequel on stage at Hall H in San Diego. “And [director] Ryan Coogler had some beautiful words at the top of the panel about feeling Chad on his shoulder still. The last time we were all together on that stage, Chad was with us, and it was beautiful.”
