Black Panther screenwriter and director Ryan Coogler nearly retired from filmmaking after Chadwick Boseman passed away. The actor died in August 2020 after a private battle with colon cancer.
Black Panther director Ryan Coogler almost stopped filming after Chadwick Boseman’s death: “I’m walking away from this business”
According to Variety, the filmmaker shared in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly that Boseman’s death prompted him to continue his work in the entertainment industry. “I was at a point where I thought, I’m walking away from this company,” Coogler said.
“I didn’t know if I could make another film period [or] another ‘Black Panther’ movie, because it hurt a lot. I was like, ‘Man, how could I open up like that again?’” Coogler continued, “I read a lot of our conversations that we had, towards what I realized was the end of his life…I decided that it made more sense to continue.”
Coogler is currently working on the follow-up Black Panther: Wakanda Forever which hits theaters on November 11. The film sees returning cast members Angela Bassett, Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira and Winston Duke as they face the death of Boseman’s King T’Challa. “My job as a filmmaker is to do things where I have personal integrity,” Coogler said.
“If I don’t believe in what I’m doing, I’ll have a hard time letting other people do their best work. To do their job the best they can, they have to believe in it. Ultimately, the choices we make have to feel truthful to me. When filmmakers make things that aren’t truthful to them, you can feel it. And I will argue that those projects have no chance of working.”
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