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‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’: Read The Screenplay For Ryan Coogler And Joe Robert Cole’s Emotional Marvel Film

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Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races.

In 2020, the tragic loss of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman sent writer-director Ryan Coogler into a tailspin. While in the early stages of pre-production for the anticipated sequel that would become Marvel/Disney’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Coogler nearly quit filmmaking altogether. “I was at a point where I was like, ‘I’m walking away from this business,’” Coogler said in a recent interview. “I didn’t know if I could make another movie [or] another Black Panther movie because it hurt a lot.

I was like, ‘Man, how could I open myself up to feeling like this again?’” In an interview with Deadline, Coogler would go on to explain that it was through rewatching old footage or reminiscing about the 2018 Black Panther press tour — namely a Time magazine cover shoot that included him and Boseman — that rekindled his passion for working again. “[That] shoot is one of my fondest memories, hanging out with him while we were promoting [the first] film.

He was just chill,” Coogler said. “So, it just reminded me that I wanted to have something, while we were making the film, to remind us what we were doing it for.

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