BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER original script told a story of father and son saving the world

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever director Ryan Coogler revealed the story details for the original Marvel movie script that is being written. This was the story they would have told first Chadwick Bosemann tragically passed away and I love the direction it was going to take.

The Black Panther The sequel was originally going to be a father-and-son relationship between T’Challa and his five-year-old son, whom he meets for the first time after returning from The Blip. Coogler shared the following information in an interview with The New York Times:

“It was, ‘What are we going to do with the Blip?’ [In Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ T’Challa is one of billions of people who suddenly vanish, only to be brought back by the Avengers five years later.] This was the challenge. It was absolutely nothing like what we got. It was going to be a father-son story from a father’s point of view, because the first film was a father-son story from a son’s point of view.

“In the script, T’Challa was a father who had this forced absence of five years from his son’s life. The first scene was an animated sequence. Listen to Nakia [T’Challa’s love interest, played by Lupita Nyong’o] talking to Toussaint [the couple’s child, introduced in ‘Wakanda Forever” in a post-credits sequence]. He says, “Tell me what you know about your father.” You realize he doesn’t know that he fathered him was the Black Panther. He never met him and Nakia remarried a Haitian guy. Then, we cut to reality and it’s the night everyone returns from the Blip. You see T’Challa meeting the boy for the first time.

“Then cut forward three years and he’s essentially co-parenting. We had some crazy scenes for Chad, man. Our code name for the movie was “Summer Break” and the movie was about a summer the boy spends with his father. On his eighth birthday, they have a ritual where they go out into the bush and have to live off the land. But something happens and T’Challa has to go save the world with her son by her side. That was the movie.

That movie would have made me happy. They could have only done it with Boseman, though. Namor would still be the villain in the film and the leader of the undersea nation Talokan. But Coogler adds:

“But it was a combination. Val [the C.I.A. director, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus] he was much more active. It was basically a three-way conflict between Wakanda, the US and the Talokan. But it was all mostly from the child’s point of view.

This all sounds like the original movie would have been absolutely wonderful. What do you think of the original story that was planned for the Black Panther Continuation?