Did you keep in mind that Sterling Okay. Brown has appeared within the MCU? The actor had a minor function in Black Panther, the 18th of the Marvel motion pictures so as, as N’Jobu, the daddy of Michael B. Jordan’s Erik Killmonger. Seven years have handed since Black Panther’s launch, and the That is Us star is seeking to get again into the superhero franchise. However how would that be completed on condition that, properly, N’Jobu was killed off?
Brown, whom these with a Hulu subscription can at present see within the political thriller TV collection Paradise, shared his need to return to the MCU in an interview with Selection, saying:
I really feel like Marvel ought to be like ‘Regulation & Order’ — after a sure variety of years, you gotta reset, you get to return again. I might love to return again to the Marvel universe, completely. Please have me again. Please, please. Thanks.
Loads has occurred with Sterling Okay. Brown since Black Panther got here out. His time as Randall Pearson got here to an finish when That is Us wrapped up after six seasons, and he’s taken half in motion pictures and TV reveals like Frozen II, American Fiction, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Photo voltaic Opposites and Invincible. He’s additionally set to star reverse Henry Cavill within the upcoming live-action Voltron film. Brown’s profile is larger than ever, and contemplating he didn’t get that a lot display screen time in Black Panther, I don’t blame him for eager to get that MCU “reset.”
However as talked about earlier, not solely is N’Jobu lifeless, he’s been lifeless for the reason that early ‘90s. The character met his finish when King T’Chaka, his older brother, fatally injured him utilizing his Black Panther claws when N’Jobu tried to shoot him. Now, N’Jobu did reappear in Black Panther’s current day storyline when Killmonger noticed his father within the Ancestral Aircraft after ingesting the Coronary heart-Formed Herb. Nevertheless, with Killmonger additionally lifeless, the probabilities of seeing N’Jobu in Black Panther 3 or any of the upcoming Marvel motion pictures is unlikely.
So if Sterling Okay. Brown needs to return to the MCU, it’ll must be as a unique character. Happily, there are a handful of examples of actors enjoying two totally different roles within the MCU, together with Gemma Chan as Minn-Erva and Sersi, Linda Cardellini as Laura Barton and Lylla, and Michelle Yeoh as Aleta Ogord and Ying Nan. Even Robert Downey Jr., who helped anchor this franchise as Tony Stark/Iron Man for 11 years, is on the brink of play Physician Doom in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. Granted, it’s speculated that he’ll find yourself being a Tony variant, however nonetheless, it counts!
I’ll be part of Sterling Okay. Brown in asking Kevin Feige and the remainder of the Marvel Studios brass to contemplate him for a brand new function. It’d be nice to see him go away an excellent greater stamp on the MCU, so if that occurs, we right here at CinemaBlend will let about it.