'Wakanda Forever': Lupita Nyong'o was considered for new Black Panther - Insider

• Warning: There are large spoilers up for "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."
• The sequel sees Wakanda grieve the nonaccomplishment of T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman).
• Writer Joe Robert Cole considered making Winston Duke and Lupita Nyong'o the caller Black Panther.

"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" has the hard occupation of addressing the tragic decease of histrion Chadwick Boseman, arsenic King T'Challa dies of a enigma unwellness wrong the opening fewer minutes of the movie.

The ramifications of his decease reverberate passim the full story, arsenic Shuri (Letitia Wright) and her loved ones grieve their precocious king portion besides clashing with Namor (Tenoch Huerta) and the federation of Talokan. 

Shuri yet learns to fto herself enactment done her grief and embraces her relation arsenic Wakanda's caller Black Panther.

But writer Joe Robert Cole precocious told Rolling Stone that the taxable of T'Challa's successor was a immense constituent of treatment going into the film, noting that they wanted to find the quality arc that would deed hardest.

The writer explained: "We would footwear astir the ideas, and effort to extrapolate wherever the communicative goes and what's the astir impactful prime — what's the champion journey? And wherever bash you spell aft the movie successful presumption of those characters? M'Baku surely was idiosyncratic that got kicked astir a small bit." 

Cole besides confirmed that Lupita Nyong'o's spy, Nakia, was successful the moving for Black Panther, saying: "That got kicked around! Her sanction got kicked astir for sure." 

Nakia would've been an absorbing prime for Black Panther, particularly with her acquisition arsenic a spy, but it's wide the absorption of her arc was astir mounting up the extremity uncover of T'Challa's son, Toussaint (Divine Love Konadu-Sun). 

Cole went connected to accidental that Shuri taking up the suit aft her member made the astir consciousness considering her story, and it evidently works successful tandem with the root material.

The writer added: "In the comics, Shuri is Black Panther and there's a earthy organicness, I conjecture is the champion mode to accidental it, to her becoming Panther. But you footwear the tires connected each sorts of ideas. And you conscionable privation to marque the champion determination and bash what's champion for the story."