First footage of Black Panther 2 released at CinemaCon – Deets inside

The first footage from the upcoming MCU movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was screened at CinemaCon. The film, which brings back the original’s director Ryan Coogler and also his co-writer Joe Robert Cole, will be without the star Chadwick Boseman, who died in 2020.

As per news reports, the footage showed Shuri (Letitia Wright), Nakia ( Lupita Nyong’o’) and Okoye (Danai Gurira) leading the forces of Wakanda against an unknown enemy. There are rumours suggesting that Namor, Marvel’s equivalent to Aquaman, maybe the big villain of the movie, and it may be that Wakanda is fighting the forces of Atlantis.

Other returning MCU characters include Martin Freeman as Everett K. Ross, Daniel Kaluuya as W’Kabi, Winston Duke as M’Baku and Angela Bassett as Ramonda, Queen Mother of Wakanda. Newcomer Dominique Thorne is set to star as Riri Williams, aka Ironheart, a notable character from the Marvel comics who builds a suit of armour rivalling that of Tony Stark/Iron Man.

Production on Wakanda Forever has been fraught with issues — filming began in June 2021 and has not yet wrapped. Most recently, production paused in January due to Nyong’o and several other cast and crew members testing positive for COVID-19. The film was originally set for a May 6 release but was delayed to November, with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness taking over the May date.