I don't understand how people can have this take. Is it pure impatience or just fear?
T'challa is 100% not "vaulted or "gone forever" but this version is. As much as people joke about all MCU movies being the same these movies aren't made by an algorithm. People make these movies and Ryan Coogler/cast/crew wanted to take a second to mourn the passing of someone important in their live. Characters are important but so are the actors that portray them. As a black person Chadwick was just a significant figure in my life outside of being in comic book movies. Give the people who do care a moment to grieve. This is just one movie in a sea of MCU movies.
The multiverse is a thing now. A version of T'challa will be around in the future so stop panicing just because Feige isn't explaining every plan in detail.
This is basically how I feel. We lost an actual person in a very tragic way. He may not have died on set or in the middle of filming a movie, but the timing would have sucked for the production and the people making it regardless.
I feel that not doing a recast was not a perfect solution, but was the best solution given the circumstances.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with letting people have one movie to grieve the loss of Boseman and having seen the trailer even as someone who was against recasting right away and believed it would be done in a respectful way to not only honor Boseman, I was still not prepared for how hard it would hit me. Making a movie can create a powerful moment to mourn and grieve his death but also is a way to celebrate life and use art in a way that creates both a cathartic coping mechanism for everyone affected by the loss of Boseman or for anyone who has ever experienced loss, but for the artists (the actors, the crew, the director, etc.) but channel that pain into the art, to help each other process the experience threw their art and say something about the human condition, and isn't that the greater purpose of art, of storytelling? I can already tell they didn't let this opportunity pass by. This wasn't just another gig. They created something beautiful here and I'm still reeling days later by how hard just the teaser trailer hits me.
I understand people feel differently about the loss of T'Challa since that is a decision made by people. It's something that we can control, but maybe in the calculus of this situation, the more compassionate, the less cynical move is to let a life be more important than a character in this instance; to let humanity and art shine during a dark time; to recognize that sometimes a loss isn't something that makes us weaker, but something fortifies us and makes us stronger through the connections we all have to one another, not just by the hardening of our souls to protect ourselves from being hurt. This was a decision made out of love, and the trailer has only made that more apparent to me.
I'm not gonna beat people over the head with how I feel if they disagree with me, but I've really been trying my best to respect others' feelings in this situation while I so strongly disagree. But I think I can echo the same sentiment, let people have this one movie.
I do think we can revisit the idea of recasting later down the line, and in fact, I think that there is an even better solution than bringing back T'Challa through the multiverse by having him be resurrected from Necropolis, and maybe on paper that seems a bit tricky or tasteless, but I believe it's something that has happened in the comics and would be something that could tie T'Challa to a storyline in the comics of him becoming King of the Dead and having more powers that people have wanted to see for a while now. It's a unique creative way to bring back the character that doesn't feel to me like it would cheapen things. It would actually make for a meaningful development of the character, of the same T'Challa we know with the same relationships he once had, and of a literal rebirth of the character. I don't know if they'd be able to execute this in a way that people would be okay with and wouldn't offend people, but I think this may be a solution for how to bring back the character.