![]() ![]() ![]() Then we would get notes from the studio, and we would just kind of divide and conquer. I think I tried to go for a draft, but I was taking too long and so he jumped in. RYAN COOGLER Last time we went back and forth. What was it like collaborating this time? These are edited - and spoiler-filled - excerpts from the conversation. In a recent joint conversation over video, the screenwriters discussed their original vision for a “Black Panther” sequel, how they addressed the loss of Boseman, and balancing the demands of their story with those of the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe. Their eventual rewrite opened with the death of Boseman’s character, T’Challa, turning the $250 million superhero film that followed into what can be fairly described as an extended meditation on grief and recovery. Coogler and Cole had recently sent Boseman a completed first draft of the script when the actor succumbed to a secret bout with colon cancer. ![]() The death of Chadwick Boseman, who played the title role in the original film - a noble but untested leader of the fictional African promised land Wakanda - forced a radical reimagining of the franchise. “There are things we put in there that felt revolutionary, that challenged the definition of having ‘a good time’ in a movie like this.” “This film was difficult in ways that only the people who made it would know,” Coogler said in a recent interview. The film has received mostly positive reviews from critics and holds the year’s second-highest performance at the box office, after “Top Gun: Maverick.” To date, it has grossed more than $420 million domestically and nearly $800 million overall. A month after release, the much anticipated follow-up to the original “Black Panther” (2018) is well situated, still screening at more than 3,000 theaters heading into the holiday weekend. The “ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” screenwriters Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole are just coming up for air. ![]()
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