A Marvel Studios executive has confirmed where the upcoming “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” exists in the overarching Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline.
Turns out it’s pretty much where you’d expect. Marvel Studios VP of Production & Development Nate Moore tells CinemaBlend that while he can’t exactly remember the year the film is set in, he knows where it slots up against the other films:
“This movie clearly happens after Spider-Man: No Way Home and Eternals. I think it probably happens, potentially, concurrent with Thor: Love and Thunder. New Asgard does exist in our film, and almost concurrent with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which is coming out in February or March.”
The film’s director Ryan Coogler recently told Inverse that had the film’s star Chadwick Boseman not died, the original plan for the film was to deal with another big MCU event – the ‘Blip’ and the consequences of that:
“The tone was going to be similar. The character was going to be grieving the loss of time, you know, coming back after being gone for five years. As a man with so much responsibility to so many, coming back after a forced five years absence, that’s what the film was tackling. He was grieving time he couldn’t get back. Grief was a big part of it.”
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” features returnees Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira Winston Duke, Martin Freeman and Angela Bassett who are joined by Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel and Tenoch Huerta as the villain Namor.
The film opens in theaters worldwide from November 11th.
