Marvel Studios: Assembled

We brought something for you guys today.

You guys are gonna be the first audience to see...

the trailer for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Oh, my God. Wow!

No woman, no cry

No woman, no cry...

Hey. What are you doing?

Checking you out. -No, no, there's no...

There's no behind the scenes.

There are no, you're spoiling everything.

Chad is no longer with us, physically.

But his spirit, his passion, his genius, his pride and his culture,

and the impact that he made on this industry

will be felt forever.

Standing here with y'all,

I promise you I can feel his hand on me right now.

Rolling.

All right.

There is a lot of grief and pain in this film,

that resonates in a way that sadly is connected to a reality.

Chad, of course, the understanding of what it meant

to really show a world like this, it came from him,

like, him and John Kani,

who played his father, who is an iconic South African actor.

You know, they came together during Captain America and said,

you know, let's put Xhosa in this film right here and now.

They set that precedent

that said, you know, we're gonna use this very beautiful

and specific African language, and it will become the Wakandan language.

That set the precedent for the world of Wakanda.

The first Black Panther film

so much of Africa was being celebrated, rather than exploited, you know?

Which is something we're more used to.

And it was giving credit where credit was due

and people were so excited to see themselves.

And there was an embracing of culture, of ethnicity.

There was just like, a reminder that we all come from very rich histories.

-My King! -Stop it, stop it.

While shooting the first Black Panther movie,

we became more than just actors and collaborators.

We really became friends along the way.

The entire cast.

We became very, very close

and we all suffered an incredible loss when we lost Chadwick.

-You have to keep working. -My goodness.

-Bad news, you have to keep working. -Goodness.

Oh, man.

I mean, you don't get past a loss like this.

It's something you learn how to live with, I think.

For me, it was about realizing how blessed and lucky I was

to have had the opportunity to work with Chadwick before he passed.

He wrote a statement saying

playing T'Challa was the honor of his life.

I was moved by knowing our time together meant something to him

because it definitely meant something to me.

And it was kinda, I was like, "We gotta keep going.

"We gotta find a way to do it with the people who he cared so much about."

A sense like...

Yeah, I think, I think how I see this is...

Yeah.

You don't use combustion technology in practice.

-Yeah. -You understand it.

It was an interesting exercise for me

'cause it wasn't my first time making a sequel.

Because I had done that with Creed before,

which was like a spiritual sequel and like a proper sequel

to the Rocky films and...

But I never like, made a sequel to something that I made.

I mean, if it stays on their head,

just one rotation, I think, will be enough.

Yeah, it keeps them in...

-It focuses, just not that fast. Yeah.

Like, half that speed, I guess.

One of the questions we would ask ourselves

when we were in the early Blue Skies phase,

what is a Black Panther movie? Like, what is...

Like, we know what Black Panther is,

but what makes it a Black Panther movie?

If we're to do another, would it fit into the world?

How would audiences recognize it?

We mourn the loss of our king.

But do not think for a second that Wakanda has lost her ability...

to protect our resources.

Cut. Nice work.

Cutting. Hey, guys, stop real quick.

Yes, sir.

I just wanna say thanks to everybody for a helluva first day.

Shot a beautiful scene.

It means a lot to be back at work.

Specially on this one.

We gotta honor our good, good friend and collaborator.

Fellow artist.

And it feels like we off to an amazing start.

I wanna say thank you to you guys for today,

thanks in advance for the other 90-some-odd days we got to go.

Just a big thank you, thank you to you guys.

The themes are pretty strong here.

You see the themes of family,

of protection, of love, of care.

All in one place and I think that's beautiful for us to explore

'cause many are feeling that

especially with the years that we've just had.

You know, so many lost.

We can use this film to show people like,

"Hey, we feel what you're feeling, you know,

"we can connect to that, we can relate."

And hopefully that gives people an avenue

to express how they feel and just come to terms with that,

so there's so much that's happening in this movie.

It's beautiful, really.

For me, Wakanda is a symbol of home.

It's a symbol of belonging.

It's a symbol of community.

And the identity of community

and how we hold on to each other to move forward.

And now, in the second film, there's been an expansion

to the world of Wakanda, that's been fun.

For those of us from Wakanda to be like,

"This is what this neighborhood looks like, that's dope," you know.

And to learn more about this incredible nation.

These are ginormous sets.

I've been very excited about building everything.

We've got Little Rivertown,

which wasn't seen last time.

Based on the River Tribe and their color is green.

We wanted to bring that in,

but we also wanted to bring in some other beautiful colors

that you would see in textiles.

So there's a real big variety in the color usage this time

that I'm super excited about.

You also get to see a little bit more of our capital city, Golden City.

Think of Golden City like Manhattan,

where you have the culmination of all the different districts in that one place.

So there's a lot of different tribes

that live in Golden City as it's their capital.

The only tribe you won't find living in Golden City is Jabari.

They are separate from the rest of Wakanda,

so they live in this sort of, southern snowy mountain tops.

North Triangle is where Bashenga first put his sword down

so it is oldest place in all of Wakanda, including the capital.

It is also where Okoye lives.

And a lot of the design in North Triangle is based on Danai Gurira,

our fabulous actress as Okoye,

her actual country of Zimbabwe,

and she is from the tribe of the Shona people.

It's where Okoye feels most at home because of the tradition,

because of what it represents.

I was losing my mind by some of these portrayals,

of various cultures, including my own.

I grew up in a country that had recently

come out of colonization when I moved there.

And so, to understand a nation like Wakanda existing,

I understood how special it was.

A nation that left you with that question,

"Who would we have been as a continent had we never been colonized?"

Wakanda itself is such a concept

that we really wanted to come back to it and groom it.

You see technology that's upgraded, you see new armor.

When we do finally see this costume as Midnight Angel,

it connects directly to the comics.

The Midnight Angels in the comics are tones of blue.

So, the design ideas came directly from the comics

and also connect directly with the actor and the story.

Ruth will exhaust every possibility

in terms of her research,

in terms of connecting with other artists around the world,

to build this world of Wakanda.

To walk into the warehouse,

and just see row after row after row, rack after rack,

table after table of jewelry and fabrics

and costumes that she sourced from Africa, from around the world.

It's just absolutely, absolutely amazing.

It has always been our policy...

to never trade vibranium under any circumstance.

Not because of the dangerous potential of vibranium...

but because of the dangerous potential of you.

I know so much more who I am when I put the costumes on.

The embroidery, the jewelry within the fabric,

the capes, the headdress,

she just took it up a notch

and I felt so regal in each and every costume.

Ruth Carter obviously brought tears to everybody's eyes

with like, the beautiful costumes.

I always say like, Ryan's the smartest man alive

being surrounded by a lot of women.

Women department heads

and every woman on this show, there's a strength that...

you don't often see, there's a level of excellence.

We had to develop a brand new military faction

that wasn't seen in the first film, which was the navy.

I wanted to get a color story first and foremost.

We know that the River Tribe is green.

So we started with a palette of green.

You can combine all different types of green together

and it just seems to work together really nicely.

Also, the element of bringing in a tribal reference.

We really wanted to give them a sense of Wakandan royalty as well

so we brought in the gold and the silver as an accent color.

And they have hats like all military factions of Wakanda,

but it's different and unique to them at the same time.