Black Panther 3 is ready to claw its way into theaters.

Kevin Feige and director Ryan Coogler announced during Marvel Studios‘ panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday that the sequel feature will film on 70mm and hit theaters Dec. 15, 2028. The duo also revealed that David Jonsson is set to star as the new Black Panther, playing an adult version of the son of T’Challa, portrayed by Chadwick Boseman in the 2018 original.

Jonsson is a recent Hollywood breakout, with key roles in Alien: Romulus and The Long Walk.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ended with the revelation that the late Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa had a young son with Lupita Nyong’o Nakia. Given that this is Marvel, it’s possible some sort of time jump or other factors are involved to age him up for the sequel. The film also will come after Avengers: Secret Wars, likely will affect the larger MCU.

The Black Panther film franchise kicked off with the 2018 title, starring Boseman as T’Challa. With a cast that included Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke and Angela Bassett, the film was a smash hit, collecting $1.3 billion at the global box office and becoming the first superhero feature to land an Academy Award nomination for best picture.

Boseman was set to reprise his lead role in a planned sequel before his death in 2020 after a private battle with colon cancer. The follow-up film’s focus shifted to Wright’s character, Shuri, taking up the mantle of Black Panther following the death of brother T’Challa. The sequel, Wakanda Forever, hit theaters in 2022 and surpassed $850 million at the worldwide box office. It won an Oscar from five nominations, with Bassett becoming the first performer nominated for an Academy Award for a performance in a Marvel movie.

Among the highlights of this year’s Marvel panel at SDCC included Ryan Gosling taking the stage to reveal his role as Ghost Rider in a forthcoming feature from Shawn Levy, his director for next year’s Star Wars: Starfighter.

The Rookie creator Alexi Hawley and the cast, led by Nathan Fillion, made a return to Comic-Con with some news about ABC series’ upcoming ninth season. It had started production earlier this week without Fillion who will join them on set Monday but was reunited with his colleagues on the show’s Comic-Con panel Saturday.

Hawley revealed that the Season 9 premiere will be unusual. “It’s a two-parter, so it won’t all be resolved in one episode, there’s a lot going on,” he said. “I think it’s the best of what we do, it’s incredibly high stakes, dramatic. It’s a love story, it’s funny and unexpected. I just wish everything up to wait till January to see it.”

The last part is a reference to the fact that, as it has done for the past couple of seasons, The Rookie once again will launch its season in January.

The long wait may be excruciating for fans who, two and a half months on, are still reeling from the jaw-dropping Season 8 finale cliffhanger in which Tim (Eric Winter) and Lucy (Melissa O’Neil) were abducted seconds after she had accepted his romantic sunset beach proposal.

Fans in the Indigo Ballroom were vocal about it when O’Neil asked how they felt about the “rollercoaster” final scene during the panel, prompting series star Nathan Fillion to step in with, “Show of hands who had a conniption in their living room?”

After seeing the sea of hands, O’Neil felt bad about it.

“Oh no! We will send you some magnesium to calm you down, have a nice little bit of tea,” she joked, adding. “We’re so sorry for that, but also thank you for going along for the ride.”

O’Neil also was asked about her reaction when she first read that scene in the finale script, written by Hawley.

“Honestly, when I was reading it the first time it was like, I can’t believe he’s finally giving it to them, I’m in shock,” she said. “And then the next moment I was like, ‘See, I knew he wasn’t going to give it to then’ And also, admittedly, my heart went out to everyone who’s deeply invested because I was like, ‘This is gonna be hard.’ So thank you for being so invested. But I went on the rollercoaster with you guys. It was great.”

As for filming the scene, “it was very rushed to shoot that day, though, it was very unceremonious. We were chasing the light.”

Added Winter, “Yeah, we timed it to the sunset. It was interesting, the whole thing was kind of moving quick. We had to knock it out. But I think seeing that script was surprising, and it made me laugh. Kind of like, ha-ha, really bad. It was great.”

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Below are Nathan’s comments about the joy of working on The Rookie where “my worst day is a great day.”

The panel was crashed by Jay Ellis, star of the upcoming spinoff The Rookie: North, which also premieres in January on ABC. As a novice to the franchise, he asked The Rookie cast for advice.

Fillion: “Learn everybody’s name, it make is much easier to apologize if ever you are late.”

Shawn Ashmore: “Stretch before stunts.”

Richard T. Jones: “Padding. Don’t be too masculine, use kneepads.”