
After a grand funeral fit for a king, director Ryan Coogler moves the action forward by one year. “Your brother is with the ancestors,” Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) tells daughter Shuri (Letitia Wright). “Wakanda Forever” begins on a sombre note, acknowledging the passing of T'Challa. The new film has all the action you expect from a blockbuster Marvel movie, but also acts as a eulogy of a sort to the late actor and his most famous character. The second film in the series, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” answers the question. Would it be possible to make a “Black Panther” movie without the Black Panther? The world was shocked when Chadwick Boseman passed away in 2020 at the tender age of forty-four, just two years after finding superstardom as King T'Challa in “Black Panther.” His passing left the future of the “Black Panther” franchise in flux.


This image released by Marvel Studios shows Angela Bassett as Ramonda in a scene from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER: 3 ½ STARS
