Black Panther: Wakanda Endlessly will hit Disney+ simply weeks forward of the launch of the MCU’s Section 5.
Disney+ has confirmed that the extremely emotional Black Panther sequel, which accounted for the dying of franchise lead Chadwick Boseman, will start streaming on Wednesday, Feb. 1.
Wakanda Endlessly (coupled with, arguably, TV’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vacation Particular) closed out Section 4 of the MCU. Section 5 kicks off Feb. 17 with the theatrical launch of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, to be adopted by the springtime premiere of Disney+’s Secret Invasion sequence.
Since its Nov. 11 theatrical launch, Wakanda Endlessly has grossed $821 million worldwide (together with a home take of $440 mil). Opening its run, it enjoeyed the most important opening weekend for a November launch, by bringing in $181 million.
As for its ties to the MCU’s TV fare, Wakanda Endlessly launched us to Riri Williams (performed by Judas and the Black Messiah‘s Dominique Thorne), a superb MIT scholar who’s getting her personal live-action Disney+ sequence, Ironheart, within the fall of 2023.
Moreover — film spoilers alert! — the Black Panther sequel established that Julia Louis-Dreyfus‘ Countess Valentina Allegra “Don’t Name Me Val” de Fontaine, who was first launched in Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, is now the director of the CIA Director (in addition to the ex-wife of veteran CIA operative Everett Ross, performed by MCU vet Martin Freeman!). As such, Val in a novel place to — as many speculated she was doing with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘ John Walker – groom, recruit, assemble, outfit and deploy the Thunderbolts, a Suicide Squad-esque workforce of antiheroes.
A Thunderbolts film was introduced final yr, to star JLD, Florence Pugh (as Black Widow‘s Yelena Belova), Wyatt Russell (as FAWS‘ John Walker fka Captain America), Sebastian Stan (because the MCU’s Bucky “Winter Soldier” Barnes), David Harbour (as Black Widow‘s Alexei/Crimson Guardian), Olga Kurylenko (as Black Widow‘s Antonia/Taskmaster) and Hannah John-Kamen (as Ant-Man 2‘s Ava/Ghost). Jake Schreier (Lodge 49, Kidding) will direct, off a script by Eric Pearson (Black Widow). Capturing begins this yr with an eye fixed on a July 26, 2024 launch, the place the film will shut out Section 5 of the MCU.
