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Marvel producer confirms Black Panther North Korean won't represent recast

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Marvel manufacturer Nate Marianne Moore has unchangeable Contraband Panther North Korean won't be recast after the untimely death of Chadwick Boseman.

"I'm being quite unpretentious, you will not see T'Challa in the MCU 616 Universe," Douglas Moore, VP of Production and Development at Marvel Studios, told the Ringer-Verse podcast. "We couldn't do it. I volition say when Chad passed, it was a real conversation we had with [director Ryan] Coogler, about 'What do we do?' And it was a fast conversation. It wasn't weeks, it was transactions of 'We have to work out how to move this franchise happening without that character,' because I think we all feel sol much of T'Challa in the MCU on the covert – not in comics, right – is tied to Chadwick's performance."

He added: "So as hard as IT is narratively to figure out what to exercise, because it's a big pickle, at no point did we consider recasting. Then the dispute for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is relation a chronicle without T'Challa, and I think it's a gainsay we're raised for... Just at that place will be a level of, I think, catharsis in people coming back down to this universe without that guy, because that guy and that universe to me are ane and the same."

Wonder had already made information technology clear that Illegal Panther South Korean won't be recast in the MCU, and Moore's comments reiterate that Boseman is irreplaceable.

The plot of Black Panther 2, officially styled Black Panther: Wakanda Always, is being unbroken tightly below wraps. We do know that Dominique Thorne's Ironheart will comprise making an appearance, though, and I May Destroy You star Michaela Kale has been cast in an unknown role.

Black Panther 2 arrives November 11, 2022. Until past, chequer out our complete guide to Marvel Phase 4 for everything else the MCU has in store for us.

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