New Delhi: British actor David Jonsson will be the new Black Panther in Marvel Studios’ third film in the franchise. The Industry star is set to play the son of the late King T’Challa, played by the late Chadwick Boseman.
Director Ryan Coogler made the announcement during Marvel Studios’ Comic-Con International panel on Saturday, with Jonsson taking to the stage alongside Black Panther cast members Letitia Wright and Winston Duke.
The character, first introduced as Toussaint, T’Challa’s son in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, would now ‘grow up’ and ‘come of age’ in a forthcoming installment, Coogler said.
The 32-year-old actor is best known for playing Augustus “Gus” Sackey in the British television drama Industry, has been cast in Alien: Romulus and the 2025 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Long Walk and won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2025.
Jonsson, on stage, called it “an honour” to have joined the Marvel family, and that he did not want to reveal too much about the film.
“Let the screen do the talking,” he said.
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‘Black Panther III’
The new film, tentatively titled Black Panther III, is slated to hit American cinemas on 15 December 2028.
Boseman, who played the role of T’Challa in the first two Black Panther movies, died at 43 in 2020, after a battle with colon cancer.
The first Black Panther movie, directed by Coogler and released in 2018, was a huge success and earned three Oscars, depicting the events of T’Challa’s ascension to the throne of the fictional African nation of Wakanda.
(Edited by Stela Dey)