Disney Plus is getting a Wakanda show
Writer-director Ryan Coogler is producing a new Disney Plus Marvel TV show set in the Kingdom of Wakanda as part of a five-year exclusive TV deal with Coogler’s production banner, Proximity Media (which includes, alongside Coogler himself, principals Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ludwig Göransson, Archie Davis, and Peter Nicks)
As his first project under the new deal, Deadline reports, Coogler, who directed and co-wrote Black Panther, and is set to write and direct a sequel to Black Panther II for release on July 8, 2022, will develop the new Wakanda Disney Plus series. The Proximity Media deal also includes the option of creating shows, not just Marvel Studios, for other parts of the Disney banner.
Little information is available about the new Wakanda show itself, but it is likely that the show will continue to build on the foundation set by Coogler with both the Black Panther and the next sequel. However, whenever it arrives, Coogler’s Wakanda series will mark the latest in an almost dizzying number of Disney Plus scheduled TV shows.
