AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - David Jonsson: the RADA-trained Londoner Marvel just crowned as the next Black Panther
Marvel tapped British actor David Jonsson to play the grown son of Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa in Black Panther III, handing a rising star one of Hollywood's most closely watched superhero roles. Director Ryan Coogler broke the news onstage at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2026, telling the packed hall that the child introduced in the […] The post David Jonsson: the RADA-trained Londoner Marvel just crowned as the next Black Panther appeared first on American Almanac .
Marvel tapped British actor David Jonsson to play the grown son of Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa in Black Panther III, handing a rising star one of Hollywood's most closely watched superhero roles. Director Ryan Coogler broke the news onstage at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2026, telling the packed hall that the child introduced in the 2022 sequel would take center stage in the franchise's next chapter. Jonsson, 32, walked out to a standing ovation and kept his remarks brief, Page Six reported . The casting ends years of speculation about who would carry the mantle after Boseman's death from cancer in August 2020 at age 43. With Black Panther III set for a December 15, 2028 release, Marvel is betting that a classically trained London actor…Open