Denzel Washington is heading from Rome to Wakanda: the Academy Award-actor has revealed that he’s set to star in Black Panther 3.
Washington shared the information throughout an look on the As we speak Present Australia. “I’m solely fascinated about working with the very best — I don’t know what number of extra movies I’m going to make, in all probability not that many. I wish to do issues I haven’t finished.” The 79-year-old actor then rattled off a couple of of his upcoming initiatives, which features a “half within the subsequent Black Panther.”
Marvel has but to formally announce a 3rd Black Panther movie following the discharge of Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually in 2022. Nonetheless, Marvel head Kevin Feige beforehand confirmed he has had “conversations” with writer-director Ryan Coogler a few potential sequel.
It will make sense why Washington would possibly wish to be concerned in a Black Panther film given his shut private connection to the movie’s authentic star, the late Chadwick Boseman. Washington helped paid for Boseman to attend an appearing program at England’s Oxford College, and Boseman later starred in Ma Rainey’s Black Backside, which was produced by Washington. Washington additionally credited Boseman for encouraging him to marry his present spouse, Taylor Simone Ledward.
Washington can subsequent be seen in Gladiator II, which opens in theaters on November twenty second.