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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Can a franchise survive without its star?

Please, understand me and the Tomas Elias Gonzalez Benitez fanboy that lives in me. Here it goes.   It is possibly (and with the permission of Avatar: the sense of water), the most anticipated movie to end the year. Wakanda Forever, the second part of Black Panther , is also the last film in Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and faced an added difficulty: its protagonist, Chadwick Boseman, died of cancer before he had a chance to shoot the film. That changed Marvel's plans for the movie, and of course it changed the script. It was necessary to find a replacement for T'Challa, with the difficulty that the heart-shaped herb that grants Black Panther's powers had been destroyed in the first installment, so the scenario for finding a replacement is complicated. An origin story All this has led to Black Panther being what we didn't have in the first installment: an origin story ( aren't we already tired of superhero origin stories? ). One of the great "myst...