Talokan MCU: New Black Panther Nation Will Impact Future Marvel Movies

When Kevin Feige took the stage at San Diego Comic-Con earlier this 12 months, followers started to see the place the Marvel Cinematic Universe was going. Three extra years of tales would construct as much as the Avengers exhibiting down with Kang the Conquerer and ultimately a tackle the fashionable Marvel storyline Secret Wars. Along the way in which, new heroes just like the Fantastic Four and Deadpool will be part of the combination together with established characters like Captain Marvel, Ant-Man, and the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Then there’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which is out on Friday. It provides an entire new layer to the equation. Literally. Deep beneath the floor of the world, far-off from prying eyes, a group of individuals referred to as the Talokan exist and have for hundreds of years. The new movie will clarify among the hows and whys to that however, chatting with io9, Marvel govt and Wakanda Forever producer Nate Moore confirmed there’s extra to return from this subterranean powerhouse, lead by one of many earliest mutants in Marvel Comics historical past, Namor the Submariner.

“This isn’t a one-off story with Namor or the world of Talokan. Obviously, well maybe not obviously, they will have a presence moving forward,” Moore stated. “This movie asks a really compelling question, which is, ‘Hey, if they’ve been hidden for so long and now somebody knows about them, what’s their response?’ And how does their introduction impact how Wakanda is seen on the world stage? And I think that’s a really fun narrative thread to continue to pull on because Wakanda finds itself in a much different position geopolitically than it did in the first movie. They were initially seen as sort of this backwater nation only to be revealed that they have all this stuff. Well, now they have all this stuff that people want. That’s going to affect the fabric of the MCU going forward.”

Of course, a quote like that creates extra questions than it solutions. So the Talokan can have a presence transferring ahead. Great. But, are they now solely tied to the world of Black Panther due to the battle on this film? If Namor survives, is he buddy or foe to the Avengers? And if Thanos wasn’t a sufficiently big risk to deliver the Talokan out of hiding, what energy may? All questions we’re more likely to get solutions to within the subsequent few years.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opens Friday.

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