{"id":18415,"date":"2026-07-27T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=18415"},"modified":"2026-07-27T03:00:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T22:00:54","slug":"ryan-coogler-met-david-jonsson-in-a-secret-meeting-about-black-panther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=18415","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Coogler Met David Jonsson in a Secret Meeting About Black Panther"},"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<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/marvel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marvel\" data-tag=\"marvel\">Marvel<\/a> boss Kevin Feige recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/black-panther-3-david-jonsson-cast-six-months-ago-secret-meeting-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Empire<\/a> how <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/david-jonsson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-jonsson\" data-tag=\"david-jonsson\">David Jonsson<\/a> was cast as the next Black Panther. He explained that \u201cThe Long Walk\u201d star met with \u201cBlack Panther\u201d director <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ryan-coogler\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ryan-coogler\" data-tag=\"ryan-coogler\">Ryan Coogler<\/a> in a \u201csecret meeting,\u201d and that the Oscar winner quickly identified Jonsson as his next leading man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe hadn\u2019t started a search yet,\u201d Feige explained. \u201cRyan was working on \u2018Sinners,\u2019 and when Ryan works on a project he\u2019s all in. So the presumption very much was we would sit with him after \u2018Sinners\u2019 came out, after the Academy campaign. We were waiting \u2019til after the Academy Awards to sit with Ryan and begin that process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe added, \u201cA month and a half or so before that process, he called me and said, \u2018I found him\u2019. I said, \u2018What do you mean?\u2019 He goes, \u2018I found him. He\u2019s this guy, David Jonsson.\u2019 He mentioned his movies. I had seen some of them. I watched more. He goes, \u2018I\u2019m going to meet him.\u2019 He had a secret meeting with him under cloak of darkness in a hotel somewhere, and called me afterwards and said, \u2018He\u2019s the guy, he\u2019s the guy, I felt it. I felt it in my soul. He\u2019s a good man, and he is the next Black Panther.\u2019 And I got chills, and I got a little welled-up and said, \u2018Let\u2019s do it\u2019. So we\u2019ve been sitting on this secret for a good five or six months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJonsson will play T\u2019Challa\u2019s son in \u201cBlack Panther 3,\u201d which hits theaters Dec. 15, 2028. The announcement was made during <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/black-panther-3-december-2028-release-david-jonsson-1236083370\/\">Marvel\u2019s Hall H panel<\/a> on Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con. Original cast members Leticia Wright and Winston Duke are returning for the new chapter, which follows Prince T\u2019Challa II as he comes of age and takes up the Black Panther mantle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAfter Chadwick Boseman <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/film\/news\/chadwick-boseman-dead-dies-black-panther-1234753232\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">died of colon cancer at age 43 in 2020<\/a>, Wright was the first to take over as the Black Panther in 2022\u2019s \u201cWakanda Forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMarvel launched the first \u201cBlack Panther\u201d in 2018 to overwhelming acclaim. It grossed $1.3 billion at the worldwide box office and earned seven Oscar nominations, including best picture.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvel boss Kevin Feige recently told Empire how David Jonsson was cast as the next Black Panther. He explained that \u201cThe Long Walk\u201d star met with \u201cBlack Panther\u201d director Ryan Coogler in a \u201csecret meeting,\u201d and that the Oscar winner quickly identified Jonsson as his next leading man. \u201cWe hadn\u2019t started a search yet,\u201d Feige&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2287655839.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C3880px%2C2183px&resize=1000%2C563","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18415","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=18415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}