WAKANDA TV Series Based in BLACK PANTHER’s World is Being Created for Disney+ by Ryan Coogler

Wakanda TV Series Coming from Director Ryan Coogler

Disney+ is not slowing down with its original content, green-lighting a TV series based on the fictional nation of Wakanda from the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther. The director of that film, Ryan Coogler, will be developing the TV series for Disney+, along with other television products, in a five year deal with Disney through his production company Proximity Media.

Coogler had this to say about Proximity Media’s deal with The Walt Disney Company:

It’s an honor to be partnering with The Walt Disney Company. Working with them on Black Panther was a dream come true. As avid consumers of television, we couldn’t be happier to be launching our television business with Bob Iger, Dana Walden and all the amazing studios under the Disney umbrella. We look forward to learning, growing, and building a relationship with audiences all over the world through the Disney platforms. We are especially excited that we will be taking our first leap with Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, and their partners at Marvel Studios where we will be working closely with them on select MCU shows for Disney+. We’re already in the mix on some projects that we can’t wait to share.

As the reader can see in Coogler’s official statement on the deal, the Wakanda show seems to be the first of many TV series that Proximity Media will create for The Walt Disney Company.

On Wakanda (from the source material):

Wakanda is a fictional country appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is located in sub-Saharan Africa, and is home to the superhero Black Panther. Wakanda first appeared in Fantastic Four #52 (July 1966), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Before the emergence of the Wakanda nation, mystic beings known as Originators were expelled from the region by the humans and the Orisha, the pantheon of Wakanda consisting of Thoth, Ptah, Mujaji, Kokou and Bast, the Panther Goddess.

In the distant past, a massive meteorite made up of the element vibranium crashed in Wakanda. The meteorite was named Mena Ngai. It was unearthed a generation before the events of the present day. T’Challa, the current Black Panther, is the son of T’Chaka, the Black Panther before him and a descendant of Bashenga. Knowing that others would attempt to manipulate and dominate Wakanda for this rare and valuable resource, T’Chaka conceals his country from the outside world. He sells off minute amounts of the valuable vibranium while surreptitiously sending the country’s best scholars to study abroad, consequently turning Wakanda into one of the world’s most technologically advanced nations. Eventually, however, the explorer Ulysses Klaue finds his way to Wakanda and covers up his work on a vibranium-powered, sound-based weapon. When exposed, Klaue kills T’Chaka, only to see his “sound blaster” turned on him by a grieving teenaged T’Challa. Klaue’s right hand is destroyed, and he and his men flee.

Wakanda has an unusually high rate of mutation due to the dangerously mutagenic properties of the Vibranium Mound. A large number of these Wakandan Mutates are working for Erik Killmonger.

Vibranium radiation has permeated much of Wakanda’s flora and fauna, including the Heart-Shaped Herb eaten by members of the Black Panther Cult (although T’Challa once allowed a dying Spider-Man to eat it in the hope that it would help him deal with a mysterious illness) and the flesh of the White Gorilla eaten by the members of the White Gorilla Cult.

The Wakanda TV series has no production start date or air date on Disney+ yet.

Leave your thoughts on a Wakanda TV series below in the comments section. Readers seeking to support this type of content can visit our Patreon Page and become one of FilmBook’s patrons. Readers seeking more Disney+ news can visit our Disney+ Page, our Disney Twitter Page, and our Disney+ Facebook Page. Readers seeking more TV show news can visit our TV Show News Page, our TV Show News Twitter Page, and our TV Show News Facebook Page. Want up-to-the-minute notification? FilmBook staff members publish articles by Email, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, and Flipboard. This news was brought to our attention by Slashfilm.