byJordan King|Updated on26th July 2026 at 9.04am
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YIBAMBE! Another Marvel Hall H panel has come and gone, bringing with it Avengers: Doomsday teases, an exciting Ghost Rider announcement, and tidbits galore of what’s to come as the MCU’s Multiverse Saga nears its end. But while some may have smarted at the lack of a bigX-Men movie reveal or some grand Mutant Saga slate drop, Kevin Feige — a sage SDCC ringmaster by now — ended Marvel Studios’ panel with ‘one more thing’: Black Panther 3! That’s right folks, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners follow-up will be his hotly anticipated Wakandan threequel, and none other than David Jonsson is set to star… in a massive role.
As revealed on stage at SDCC, BAFTA Rising Star Award winner Jonsson — who has been lighting up our screens lately in such projects as Alien: Romulus, The Long Walk, and Wasteman — is officially set to play the grown son of Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa, Prince T’Challa II (formerly known as Toussaint), in Black Panther 3. As you’ll recall, Toussaint was introduced in the emotional closing minutes of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, paving the way for the late King T’Challa’s son to succeed his auntie Shuri (Letitia Wright) someday as the new Black Panther. And with today’s announcement, it would appear that day has come — check out Ryan Coogler, onstage with Letitia Wright and M’Baku himself, Winston Duke, welcoming Jonsson into the MCU and declaring him the new Black Panther below;
Along with the reveal that Black Panther 3 — or Black Panther III, as it’s currently being stylised — will indeed be Ryan Coogler’s next movie, we did also learn a couple more exciting things about the inbound trilogy capper. Firstly, as the celluloid revolution — of which Coogler has been a major proponent — continues apace, we got confirmation that BP3 is being shot on large-format celluloid film (no InfinityVision for this one, then, folks!) And secondly, the movie has a release date already: 15 December, 2028. Only 882 days to go… the countdown starts here!
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