{"id":1212094,"date":"2022-09-27T19:14:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T19:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/it-was-much-too-soon-to-recast-chadwick-bosemans-tchalla-in-black-panther-sequel-marvels-kevin-feige\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T19:14:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T19:14:30","slug":"it-was-much-too-soon-to-recast-chadwick-bosemans-tchalla-in-black-panther-sequel-marvels-kevin-feige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/it-was-much-too-soon-to-recast-chadwick-bosemans-tchalla-in-black-panther-sequel-marvels-kevin-feige\/","title":{"rendered":"It was \u2018much too soon\u2019 to recast Chadwick Boseman\u2019s T\u2019Challa in \u2018Black Panther\u2019 sequel\u00a0&#8211; Marvel\u2019s Kevin Feige\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/https___cdn.cnn_.com_cnnnext_dam_assets_200828234621-chadwick-boseman-black-panther-still-1024x576.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>There\u2019s a reason why Chadwick Boseman\u2019s character in the \u201cBlack Panther\u201d sequel was not recast following\u00a0his death in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0an interview with Empire magazine, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said \u201cIt just felt like it was much too soon\u201d to recast the late actor, who died\u00a0at the age of 43 from colon cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStan Lee always said that Marvel represents the world outside your window. And we had talked about how, as extraordinary and fantastical as our characters and stories are, there\u2019s a relatable and human element to everything we do,\u201d Feige said.\u201dThe world is still processing the loss of Chad. And [director] Ryan [Coogler] poured that into the story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boseman\u2019s death came as a shock to many \u201cBlack Panther\u201d fans as he had not gone public with his illness. There has been speculation as to how the franchise would handle his passing.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"RlOB3UALvrQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marvel Studios\u2019 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | Official Teaser\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RlOB3UALvrQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Feige said Coogler and his team got to work figuring out the direction they wanted to take the sequel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conversations were entirely about, yes, \u2018What do we do next?\u2019\u201d Feige told the publication. \u201cAnd how could the legacy of Chadwick \u2013 and what he had done to help Wakanda and the Black Panther become these incredible, aspirational, iconic ideas \u2013 continue? That\u2019s what it was all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever\u201d hits theatres in the US on November 11.<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 900\"> Tags: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/it-was-much-too-soon-to-recast-chadwick-bosemans-tchalla-in-black-panther-sequel-marvels-kevin-feige\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a reason why Chadwick Boseman\u2019s character in the \u201cBlack Panther\u201d sequel was not recast following\u00a0his death in 2020. In\u00a0an interview with Empire magazine, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said \u201cIt just felt like it was much too soon\u201d to recast the late actor, who died\u00a0at the age of 43 from colon cancer. \u201cStan Lee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[94,26432,21301,26433,4531,21331,21332,26434,26435,26436],"class_list":["post-1212094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-black","tag-bosemans","tag-chadwick","tag-feige","tag-kevin","tag-marvels","tag-panther","tag-recast","tag-sequel","tag-tchalla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}