— people keep asking Michael B. Jordan if Killmonger will return for the sequel, which, barring a Star Wars-esque reveal that he was cloned offscreen between movies by a random wizard cult, seems pretty unlikely. But, impressively, the Black Panther franchise has a deep bench of acclaimed actors who are already part of the cast — like, if the next movie is just two hours of Winston Duke’s M’Baku, sign us the hell up. Or why not let Nakia become the next Black Panther, which would make for an interesting character arc. Not to mention the fact that Lupita Nyong’o is indisputably one of the best actors working today. While the cast is still keeping the details to themselves, according to Nyong’o, director Ryan Coogler’s plan for the direction of the sequel is, “So respectful of the loss we’ve all experienced as a cast and as a world. So it feels spiritually and emotionally correct to do this.”
Obviously, there’s no clear path for the best way to handle this terrible situation, but we can point to one concrete example of how not to go forward with a film franchise following the tragic death of its star. And it involves a movie series that also happens to be named after a color-coded panther …
The filmmakers behind Black Panther could probably just look at every creative decision that went into continuing the Pink Panther series following the death of Peter Sellers and just do the exact goddamn opposite. After Sellers, who starred as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, died of a heart attack, the movies continued with Trail of the Pink Panther, a barely coherent patchwork of outtakes and deleted scenes featuring the late Sellers — and featuring a title sequence, oddly enough, by Marvel Productions.
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