In the months leading up to the film's release, the cast and crew were very clear about their feelings about continuing the film without Boseman. As the film has become a solid hit at the box office and seems poised to go for awards gold like the first movie did, there is a question of what could've been. The original pitch for the film was said to have been spiritual in nature, but no one has expanded on that.
In a recent interview with the New York Times, director Ryan Coogler and co-writer Joe Robert Cole talked about their initial pitch for the film, which sounds like it would fit in with what is currently in theaters. We need this before we start.
In the past, the director has talked about how the film would have focused on T'Challa feeling a sense of loss after he was left out in the cold in the first movie. The main theme of the film would have been the sense of displacement after learning that his lover had a child. Toussaint, also known as T'Challa II, had a bigger role in the sequel than he did in the first one.
The story was going to be a father-son one. The first movie was about a father and son. The opening scene of the second film would have been similar to the first, with the audience learning that Toussaint doesn't know his father is Black Panther. Nakia is married to a guy from Haiti. It's the night that everyone comes back from the Blip. T'Challa meet the kid for the first time
Over the next three years, we would see T'Challa and Toussaint living off the land of Wakanda, as well as a sequence where the two spent Toussaint's eighth birthday. It would have been necessary for T'Challa to have his son with him. One of the main villains would be Allegra de Fontaine, who would have been the second. There was a three way conflict between Talokan, the U.S. and Wakanda. It was all from the child's point of view.
It is unsurprising that throughline would continue for the sequel because of how much the Black Panther movies are about legacies and fathers. Even so, you can't help but wonder what that kind of movie would have been like, not only because of the emphasis on the lead characters having families of their own, but also because of how Cole's take on father-son stories would've looked.
The Hollywood Reporter has a story on it.
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