Trailer drops for Marvel Studios’ ‘What If …?’, Chadwick Boseman’s final Marvel role

Chadwick Boseman’s final Marvel project before his death last year is due to drop in weeks, with an emotional trailer being released today.

It’s rare that a trailer feels so touching and existential.

Disney+ dropped the official trailer for Marvel Studios’ animated series, What If …? today, and the two-minute clip is surprisingly emotional in multiple ways.

Not only does it explore a “multiverse of unlimited possibilities,” but it features the late Chadwick Boseman voicing his final Marvel Cinematic Universe role.

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Chadwick Boseman at the 2019 Oscars. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Boseman, who lost a four-year battle with colon cancer in August, recorded his lines for the animated show, What If …? shortly before his death in August last year. He was 43.

The focus of the alternative world-themed series is the substitute possibilities for Marvel Universe characters and plot lines.

In the new original series, set to begin streaming on August 11, Boseman voices an alternate reality version of his Black Panther character Prince T’Challa of Wakanda.

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Chadwick Boseman’s character in his final Marvel role in Marvel studios' animated series, 'What If …?'.

In What If …? Marvel’s Yondu character takes T’Challa and makes him Star-Lord, instead of the character Peter Quill, as the storyline previously went.

The trailer also features Black Panther character Killmonger saving Iron Man Tony Stark from being hit by a missile among other twists to established Marvel stories.

The sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is set to hit theatres on July 8, 2022, without the irreplaceable Boseman.

Boseman battled his illness privately and had never discussed his cancer in public.

This story originally appeared on NY Post and has been reproduced here with permission