10 Alternate Endings To 2018 Movies You Almost Saw

7. Black Panther

The Ending We Got

At the end of Black Panther, after T'Challa has defeated Erik Killmonger and honoured hsi wishes to die rather than live his life in chains, the new king of Wakanda decides to share his country's wisdom and technology with the world.

The final scene of the film shows him establishing a Wakandan outreach centre on the site of Killmonger's father's death, which would be run by Nakia and Shuri. Then the mid-credits scene showed T'Challa at a UN conference, revealing to the world Wakanda's secrets.

The Ending We Almost Saw

The post-credits, Bucky-related scene was always the same, but as Ryan Coogler revealed to the Empire Film Podcast, the U.N. mid-credits scene was actually how the film would have ended at one point:

“It was [almost the ending]. We played with a lot of different ways to end it. We went back and forth about the U.N., and we had a version where it was the U.N. before the scenes in Oakland at the end. But we really kind of settled on how do we want the movie to end? And it came back to that symmetry, and it came back to the most moving version of it. That’s what we were asking ourselves, ‘Who’s more moved emotionally, that kid or the people sitting in the U.N.?’ Who is that a bigger deal to for T’Challa to walk in, who’s more connected to him?”

It's a simple change, but a wholly effective one.