Denzel Washington is becoming a member of the MCU. The veteran Hollywood star mentioned Black Panther 3 is one in every of his upcoming tasks, with director Ryan Coogler at the moment writing his position for the sequel to Black Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly. “At this level in my profession, I’m solely fascinated with working with the perfect,” he mentioned in a current interview as a part of his Gladiator 2 press tour.
Regardless of his prolific profession, the Academy Award-winner has by no means appeared in a comic book e book film earlier than. “I performed Othello at 22, I’m now going to play it at 70,” Washington just lately instructed the As we speak present on Australia Channel 9 (through Hollywood Reporter). “After that, I’m enjoying Hannibal. After that, I’ve been speaking with Steve McQueen a few movie. After that, Ryan Coogler is writing an element for me within the subsequent Black Panther.”
That’s numerous “after thats” and Black Panther 3 doesn’t at the moment have a launch window as a part of the following part in Marvel’s cinematic roadmap. The 2022 film functioned each as an Avengers: Endgame pick-me-up and a tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman who handed away in 2020 after enjoying the titular superhero within the first film.
In the meantime, the animated spin-off Eyes of Wakanda is ready to return to Disney Plus in August 2025. And Letitia Wright, who performed Black Panther’s sister Shuri, instructed The View over the summer time that there’s “lots arising” and that she’s wanting ahead to returning to that position sooner or later.
Earlier than he handed away on the age of 43, Bosman was one in every of many actors to pay tribute to Washington on the American Movie Institute in 2019. “There is no such thing as a Black Panther with out Denzel Washington,” he mentioned on the time, praising the work he’d completed for many years that helped present a blueprint for a brand new technology of Black actors to star within the 2018 Marvel film and carry it to a $1.3 billion field workplace.
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