{"id":17555,"date":"2026-07-26T07:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=17555"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T02:18:11","slug":"ryan-coogler-to-direct-black-panther-3-coming-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=17555","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Coogler to Direct Black Panther 3, Coming in 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/black-panther-3-ryan-coogler.jpg?quality=80\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-id=\"1613974\" data-title=\"Ryan Coogler to Direct Black Panther 3, David Jonsson Cast as T\u2019Challa\u2019s Son\" data-url=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/07\/ryan-coogler-black-panther-3-marvel-2028\/\" data-page=\"1\" data-pages=\"1\">\n<p>Oscar winner <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/ryan-coogler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan Coogler<\/a> is coming back to Wakanda \u2014 the <i>Sinners<\/i> helmer will be directing <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/black-panther\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Black Panther 3<\/i><\/a>, set to be released on December 15th, 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The movie will feature rising star <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/david-jonsson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Jonsson<\/a> (<i>Industry<\/i>, <i>Alien: Romulus<\/i>, <i>The Long Walk<\/i>) as the adult son of Chadwick Boseman\u2019s T\u2019Challa, who will inherit his father\u2019s mantle. Previously, in <i>Black Panther: Wakanda Forever<\/i>, Shuri (Letitia Wright) had taken on the role. Given that Jonsson\u2019s character was a young boy when revealed at the end of <i>Wakanda Forever<\/i>, a time jump seems likely.<\/p>\n<p>This news does raise questions about the status of Coogler\u2019s reboot of <i>The X-Files<\/i>, starring Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel, which just wrapped production. However, while Coogler wrote and directed it, that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019d be directly involved with every episode if the show was greenlit to series.<\/p>\n<p>For a reminder of why Coogler\u2019s an Oscar winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/04\/sinners-review-ryan-coogler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revisit our review of last year\u2019s <i>Sinners<\/i>.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=1;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\tfbq('init', '1753966171496536');\n\t\tfbq('set','agent','tmgoogletagmanager', '1753966171496536');\n\t\tfbq('track', \"PageView\");\n\t<\/script><script defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v7.0&#038;appId=434175690014\" nonce=\"6gwmbCtM\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar winner Ryan Coogler is coming back to Wakanda \u2014 the Sinners helmer will be directing Black Panther 3, set to be released on December 15th, 2028. The movie will feature rising star David Jonsson (Industry, Alien: Romulus, The Long Walk) as the adult son of Chadwick Boseman\u2019s T\u2019Challa, who will inherit his father\u2019s mantle&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Black-Panther.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}