HOUSTON Ryan Coolger, the director of Black Panther, released an emotional and revealing tribute to Chadwick Boseman, who died Friday after quietly battling cancer for nearly four years. Day after day, year after year. I was deciding whether or not directing BLACK PANTHER was the right choice for me. And how Chad knew Howard student Prince Jones, whos murder by a police officer inspired Coates memoir Between The World and Me. But I look back and realize that Chad knew something we all didnt.