In an interview with Inverse, director Ryan Coogler, discussed the original intentions of the makers for Black Panther 2. Instead of the anguish of losing King T'Challah, the film would have focused on T'Challah's loss of time during Thanos' five-year blip.

Coogler explained that the tone shift was less of a shift than in casting.

T'Challah vanished after Thanos' 'Blip', which wiped out half of the world's population, and had Chadwick been alive to reprise his role as the Black Panther, the King of Wakanda would have struggled to adjust to life.

The tone would be analogous. Following a five-year absence, the character was expected to grieve the passage of time upon his return. As a man with so much responsibility for so many returning after a five-year absence, this was the film's subject. He was lamenting the loss of irretrievable time. Grief played a significant role.

Batman, Iron Man & Black Panther: Wealthiest Superheroes Who Mean Serious Business

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The Many Zeroes That Make A Superhero

Being a superhero can be on account of superpowers, skills, or just an ability to mint a lot of money. Some popular superheroes and villains have also been incredibly rich businessmen. Here’s a list of the wealthiest.

The King Of Wakanda

Black Panther
$90 trillion

Black Panther is not only the first black superhero in a mainstream comic book series, he’s also the richest. While other superheroes may derive their wealth from business or commercial interests, T’Challa has his own country. And not just any country, but the kingdom of Wakanda, home to the entire world’s reserves of Vibranium, the most precious and strongest metal in the Marvel Comic Universe.

According to the comic books, it retails for close to $10,000 per gram, giving the country more than $90 trillion worth of Vibranium reserves, giving T’Challa a net worth that’s $10 trillion more than the entire real world’s GDP.

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The Villain In Chief

Ozymandias
$7 billion

Born as Adrian Veidt, the villain in chief of the Watchmen franchise, Ozymandias has quite a few notable achievements: He’s the smartest man on Earth, is in peak physical fitness [enough to catch a bullet, literally], and runs a ruthless business enterprise with criminal efficiency. In fact, he was so confident of his ability to make billions that at the age of 17, he gave away his entire fortune to charity. He then started off all over again, and went into business by selling toys modelled on himself. As of today, he’s holed up in Antarctica, but cares deeply about the state of the universe.

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Billionaire With A Swag

Iron Man
$9.3 billion

Unlike a lot of others who made their own billions, Tony Stark aka Iron Man was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. And also unlike a lot of the other super rich people, who are generally despised for their riches (looking at you, Batman), everybody loved Stark. Maybe because he invested his billions into saving the world, but Stark also built himself a fine sea-side mansion, as also a sparkling headquarters for the Avengers in New York.

(Image: www.marvel.com)

Te Dark Knight

Batman
$9 billion

Forbes estimates Bruce Wayne aka Batman’s net worth to be in the region of $9.2 billion, while the Bruce Enterprises is said to have an annual revenue of $31.3 billion. All pretty cool, especially for someone whose superpower is money. Spiderman can spin a web; He-Man is the strongest man in the universe, Batman? He has cool cars. But it’s perhaps for the best. The future of the world depends on Bruce Wayne’s money, considering Ra’s Al Ghul is literally immortal and himself is worth $ 1 billion.

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He also mentioned changing the plot and protagonist of the script. The enemy would still have been Namor the Submariner (played by Tenoch Huerta).

The director further stated that the team had to reconsider who the protagonist was going to be, his shortcomings, and the obstacles he faced on his journey. Everything had to change due to the untimely loss of Chadwick from colon cancer.

On November 11, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" will release in theaters, and fans could not be more excited.

FAQs:

When did Chadwick Boseman die?
August 28, 2020
When was the first Black Panther movie released?
February 14, 2018

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