Fans have been waiting for this, and it is here. It’s official the title has been released for the sequel now titled, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”. Since the sudden death of Chadwick Boseman, who died at the age of 43 from colon cancer, plans for the sequel were put on hold. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that the next Black Panther film will “honor the legacy” of the late Chadwick Boseman, and they will not recast the character.
In the comics, T’Challa’s sister Shuri, played by Wright, takes over from her brother as the ruler of Wakanda and eventually takes up the Black Panther mantle herself.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is an upcoming superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name. The film is a sequel to Black Panther and Avengers: Endgame. It is the 30th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the seventh film of Phase Four. The film is set to be released on July 8, 2022.
It is also confirmed a digital Boseman will not be used in the sequel. “There’s only one Chadwick, and he’s not with us,” said Marvel Studios’ EVP Victoria Alonso. “Our king, unfortunately, has died in real life, not just in fiction, and we are taking a little time to see how we return to history and what we do to honor this chapter of what has happened to us that was so unexpected, so painful, so terrible, really.”
Kevin Feige added, “So much of the comics and that first movie in the world of Wakanda. Wakanda is a place to further explore with characters and different subcultures. This was always and initially the primary focus of the next story. We’re not going to have a CG Chadwick,
and we’re not recasting T’Challa.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, filming will start on the sequel in Atlanta in July 2021 for upwards of six months.
There are currently four Marvel movies planned for release in 2022 with Black Panther 2, joined by Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (March 25), Thor: Love and Thunder (May 6), and Captain Marvel 2, officially titled The Marvels (November 11).
Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, and Angela Bassett are expected to return for the new film, although their participation has yet to be con- firmed.
In other business, Black Panther’s, will appear opposite Harrison Ford in the fifth Indiana Jones movie. Deadline broke this casting news while also revealing that The Predator star Boyd Holbrook has nabbed a role too, al- though it’s unspecified who the duo are playing.
The aim is for production to begin this summer.
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