Michael B. Jordan has weighed in on the odds of him playing a live-action N'Jadaka/Erik "Killmonger" Stevens in the Marvel Cinematic Universe again, be it in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever or elsewhere.
"[On a scale of 1 to 10] I'll go with a 2... I honestly really don't know much at all," Jordan told Sirius XM. "All I know is that they're developing a script [for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever] that's a reflection of a lot of circumstances and tragedy that we had to deal with this past year... I know [writer/director] Ryan [Coogler] and Marvel are going to do the absolute best job at developing a story in a way that makes everybody happy and satisfied and honors [T'Challa actor Chadwick Boseman] and moves forward with grace."
Following Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman's tragic death in Aug. 2020, returning writer/director Ryan Coogler "reshaped" the story for Wakanda Forever to allow Wakanda's story to continue without recasting T'Challa. Little else is known about the film's plot at this point, including whether it will feature any flashbacks or scenes set in the Ancestral Plane that could potentially allow Jordan to reprise his role as Killmonger, despite the character dying in the first Black Panther movie.
Jordan also talked about watching Boseman's final performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and how he felt when the late actor was shockingly passed over for Best Actor at the 2021 Oscars ceremony. "There's no award that can validate his legacy. There's no win that can take anything away from the lives around the world that he impacted, his family, myself included," Jordan noted. "You got to look at the things we can control and the gifts and blessings that he left us and that's his incredible body of work and what he represents as a person. That's the biggest win we can really ask for."
Along with the Black Panther sequel, Coogler will continue to explore T'Challa's homeland in an as-yet untitled Wakanda spinoff series he's developing for Disney+. As for Jordan, he will lend his voice to an animated Killmonger in Marvel's What If...? TV show this summer.
Directed by Ryan Coogler, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever stars Letitia Wright, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett and Martin Freeman. The film arrives in theaters July 8, 2022.
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