Will one of Denzel Washington’s last films be “Black Panther 3”?

Denzel Washington, who has been acting for the reason that late Seventies, is looking forward to retirement, but not before he fulfills his acting bucket list, so to talk.

Promoting his latest film “Gladiator II” on Australian television “Today’s show”, the 69-year-old actor said that one of his last roles will be the one that Ryan Coogler will give you for “Black Panther 3”.

“I do not understand how many more films I’m going to make. There are probably not that many,” he explained. “I want to do things I haven’t done. I played Othello at the age of 22; “I’m going to play Othello when I’m 70,” he said in reference to the upcoming Broadway production of Shakespeare’s “Othello,” during which he’ll star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal.

He continued: “Then I play Hannibal. Then I talked to Steve McQueen concerning the movie. Then Ryan Coogler is writing a job for me in the subsequent “Black Panther.”

Washington added that he plans to play King Lear and star in a movie version of Othello after “Black Panther” after which “I’ll Retire.”

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The two-time Oscar winner noted that at his age – and after greater than 40 years within the industry – he has reached the purpose where he can be picky about his projects.

“For me, it’s about the filmmaker. “Especially at this stage of my career, I am only interested in working with the best,” he said.

Although Marvel Studios has not officially announced the third installment of the “Black Panther” franchise, Washington already has ties to the film. Washington didn’t have the chance to work on screen with the late Chadwick Boseman, who first brought Black Panther hero T’Challa to life in the unique film adaptation released in 2018. However, Washington once sponsored Boseman and several other of his Howard University classmates to attend a summer acting program on the University of Oxford in England.

“There’s no ‘Black Panther’ without Denzel Washington,” Boseman once said presenting Washington with the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Washington first appeared on the acting scene in 1977 within the Wilma Rudolph TV biopic “Wilma.” He then became a daily on the hit Eighties TV series “St. Elsewhere.” Since then, he won his first Oscar in 1990 for “Glory” and again in 2002 for “Training Day,” making Washington probably the most successful Black Academy Award winner to this present day.

His legacy includes films akin to “Malcolm X”, “The Preacher’s Wife”, “Mo Better Blues”, “The Bone Collector” and lots of others.