What If…? Season one director Bryan Andrews revealed that Marvel Studios envisioned a spin-off of T’Challa as Star Lord, voiced by Chadwick Boseman.
The first season of What If…? Not only did it mark Marvel Studios’ foray into the animated series, it also brought us the last lifetime work of Chadwick Boseman, who played a different version of T’Challa as Star-Lord, a character that was planned to make a spin-off series.
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Bryan Andrews, the director of the first season of the animated series What If…? reported in an interview with Variety that Marvel Studios had a spin-off series of What If…? to follow in T’Challa’s footsteps as Star Lord
“I don’t know if he (Chadwick Boseman) knew this, but he was planning for Star Lord T’Challa to become his own show with that universe and team.”.
The manager of the first season of What If…? noted that had this spin-off of T’Challe been finalized as Star Lord, Boseman would have returned as the voice of the leader of the Ravengers.
“We were all very excited. We know he would have loved it too. And then, you know, he passed away, and all of that is in limbo. Then, who knows? Maybe someday”.
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Andrews recalled what it was like to work with Chadwick Boseman, who left all his taped lines for season 1.
“Chadwick had recorded his Star-Lord T’Challa footage early. But we had those later episodes where he appeared sporadically, and it was a long time before we got him (as Star Lord again)… It wasn’t long after the final recording when he passed away… Neither of us knew, obviously. But we got it in time to have everything (for the first season) “.
The director highlighted the great work of Boseman, who put his own stamp on both Black Panther and T’Challa, as well as for his version of Star Lord.
“(Boseman) He was trying to make an effort because T’Challa was very important to him, and also this new version of Star Lord T’Challa was so important to him. “
The first episodes of season 1 of What If…? are available on the Disney Plus digital platform.
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Source: Variety
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