Lord M’Baku Has Arrived
One of the most clever additions—and my personal favorite addition (not just because Wintson Duke and I manifested it years ago)—is M’Baku making his debut in the parks. And he gets a whole experience because he is a whole experience. Serna agreed, “I loved M’Baku in first film. We had brought in General Okoye and the Dora Milaje and I thought, what’s a balance to that? What kind of energy is different? And M’Baku was such a giant figure in the first film,” Serna said. “I saw the movie and went, ‘Oh, I see why they really were on board with it.’ Yeah, but the excitement around that was really from me saying, ‘How can we bring something different?’ I loved his humor. I love the spirit of what the Jabari are about. They are a tribe that is more about organic things and not about Vibranium and futurism. [They’re] really about digging down, [and are more] personal and grounded, which [is] very different than the rest of the Wakandan stories.”
