In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we first met Prince T’Challa, as played by Chadwick Boseman, in Captain America: Civil War when we saw him at the United Nations to attend a hearing on the Sokovia Accords, which would bring the Avengers under governmental oversight. However, as we all know by now, it was at those meetings that his father, King T’Chaka, was assassinated in a bombing, making Prince T’Challa King.
And that, according to producer Nate Moore is where the upcoming film, Black Panther, will start. In an interview with Complex, Moore said of the film, which will see Chadwick Boseman reprising his role —
Black Panther takes place right after the events of Civil War, so T’Challa’s father has just been killed, he has returned home to Wakanda, and T’Challa has to navigate potentially becoming the new ruler of this nation. He never intended to become the king for years because he figured his dad would be around for a long time. T’Chaka’s death is, in a lot of ways, the catalyst for everything that’s happening in Black Panther.
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It seems by this account that the rule of the kingdom is a bit more up for grabs than maybe we initially thought. In most monarchies, once the King or Queen die, their eldest child takes over their rule. However, here it appears that may not be the case. Wakanda, the fictional country where T’Challa resides, has always had a way to challenge their leaders. We’ve seen characters like M’Baku and Erik Killmonger challenge the rule of T’Challa, with various results, and it appears that this tradition is still in place for the film. That is, Prince T’Challa is not necessarily guaranteed to be King — he may have to fight for it. Both of those villains, by the by, are in the film, as played by Winston Duke and Michael B. Jordan, respectively.
It’s into this political unrest that it appears our movie begins, and it’s most likely this uncertainty that the antagonists start to unveil their plans, forcing T’Challa to fight a threat to Wakanda as the Black Panther even as his right to the throne is challenged. That is, poor T’Challa is being pulled in a lot of different directions from the very outset of this film.
At least, that’s how we’re interpreting this.
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