Marvel Studios VP of production and development has shut down rumors surrounding the recasting of the late Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, saying it may happen eventually but not anytime soon.
VP of production and development Nate Moore told ComicBook “there’s no truth to those rumors,” which emerged in the wake of Black Panther 3 being quietly announced by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige in December.
“The truth is, there’s no truth to those rumors,” Moore said. “Never say never to anything; we haven’t really had a lot of creative conversations with [writer and director] Ryan Coogler yet, because he’s finishing his film Sinners, which comes out this year.
“We’ll get into it later this year, but everything you read online is not true, if for no other reason than we just haven’t started [working on it].”
Boseman starred as the original Marvel Cinematic Universe Black Panther before his death in 2020, with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever addressing this with a touching tribute before revealing his character T’Challa’s death too.
T’Challa’s younger sister Shuri, played by Letitia Wright, took over the role of the Black Panther and will likely continue that story in the third film, but with myriad links to the afterlife throughout the franchise, fans have questioned if T’Challa may come back.
Nothing is known about Black Panther 3 so far, however, and seemingly at Marvel too, though Denzel Washington let slip his starring in the film before Feige confirmed it proper.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
