‘Black Panther 3’ is Officially Ryan Coogler’s Next Movie

We’ll be going back to the world of Wakanda soon enough, as Ryan Coogler has announced Black Panther 3 as his next project.

During a panel for Sinners at Deadline’s Contenders Film event, the writer/director confirmed the threequel is “the next movie” on his schedule. “If it was anybody but you, I would say, ‘I can neither confirm nor deny.’ But we’re working on it hard.”

Ryan Coogler confirms ‘Black Panther 3’ is his next film #DeadlineContenders pic.twitter.com/15OH9hpMPY

— Deadline (@DEADLINE) November 15, 2025

It’s never been a question of if Coogler would go back to Black Panther, but when: Marvel’s got quite a few heroes waiting on their sequels and have been MIA for a minute. Even so, the two Panther movies have done pretty well at the box office, and Shuri, M’Baku, and Namor are locked in for Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars. A third film was all but a given, especially after last November when Denzel Washington teased Coogler was eyeing him for a mystery role, something the director later confirmed.

Marvel previously laid some flags for unannounced MCU movies on its incoming schedule spanning the next few years, particularly four movies expected to land in 2028. We’ll see where Black Panther 3 ends up on the slate, and how it’ll be affected by whatever the Wakandans get mixed up in during Doomsday and Secret Wars. Until then, the first two films and the recent Eyes of Wakanda animated miniseries are there to watch over on Disney+. But if you’d like some more Coogler, there’s always Sinners and his upcoming take on The X-Files.

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