Chadwick Boseman's original 'Black Panther 2' storline revealed by director

Black Panther Director Ryan Coogler initially planned to put Chadwick Boseman front and center in Black Panther 2.

During his appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Coogler revealed the original script he penned for the Black Panther sequel, saying, "The big thing about the script was … this thing called The Ritual of Eight … when a prince is eight years old, he has to go spend eight eight days in the bush with his father…They have to go into the bush … without any tools. … And the prince … has to listen and do everything that's asked of him by his father. But the rule is for those eight days, the prince can ask the father any question and the father has to answer….And during the course of those during the course of those eight days, Namor launches an attack….That was what the movie was."

However, Boseman never got to read the script.

"What happened was I finished it and … he was he was was too sick to read it, bro. …He was at a place where it wasn't it … gonna happen," the Sinners director revealed.

Boseman died of colon cancer in 2020. The sequel’s script was rewritten to include his character T’Challa’s death. The film became 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.