Today at San Diego Comic-Con, director Ryan Coogler took the stage to announce that not solely is Black Panther 3 hitting theaters on December 15, 2028, however David Jonsson will play T’Challa’s grown son who was launched on the finish of Wakanda Forever.
T’Challa comes of age within the new film with eyes on the crown of Wakanda.
Denzel Washington also is in the cast as beforehand introduced.
The first Black Panther in 2018 grossed $1.3 billion and received three Oscars. The pic launched Chadwick Boseman as a star within the position of T’Challa, the chief of Wakanda and a world superhero. Boseman died of most cancers in August 2020 after a battle with most cancers. Wakanda Forever, the Black Panther sequel, performed out the occasions of T’Challa’s demise. That movie went on to $859M and received an Oscar for Ruth Carter’s Costume Design.
Jonsson’s current earlier movies, each The Long Walk (2025) directed by Francis Lawrence and Alien: Romulus (2024) from Fede Álvarez, had Hall H shows, conserving the star within the orbit of San Diego’s Convention Center. Coogler launched Jonsson with point out of The Long Walk, by which the actor starred alongside Cooper Hoffman. Based on the guide by Stephen King, the 2 younger males painting characters who forge an unlikely friendship in, fairly actually, a stroll to the demise.
Black Panther solid members Letitia Wright and Winston Duke additionally joined Coogler, Feige and Jonsson onstage. Jonsson’s character, Toussaint, aka T’Challa II was launched within the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) in a post-credit scene to the movie by Lupita Nyong’o’s Nakia. Rihannah’s “Lift Me Up” then performed because the credit rolled.
Jonsson additionally appeared as Gus Sackey in HBO’s Industry, and he performed Dom in Rye Lane (2023).
