Marvel Studios and director Ryan Coogler have started production on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever at Pinewood Studios in Atlanta. The news comes from Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige, who says:
“It’s clearly very emotional without Chad. But everyone is also very excited to bring the world of Wakanda back to the public and back to the fans. We’re going to do it in a way that would make Chad proud.”
There are still no details to share on the story or how the series will handle the absence of Chad Boseman, but I’m confident that Marvel has figured out something that will make Marvel fans happy.
The movie will bring back Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Daniel Kaluuya, Winston Duke, Lupita Nyong’o, Florence Kasumba, Angela Bassett, and Martin Freeman will reprise their roles from the original film. When previously teasing what Coogler has planned for the film, Fremman described the sequel as “very odd”:
“I had a Zoom call with Ryan Coogler, the director and co-writer, about seven or eight weeks ago, I suppose, and he sort of meticulously took me through all of my character’s beats in the film. He took me through the film, but incorporating my character’s beats. And some of it was really [laughs], some of it was, like, very odd. And I think he could see by the reaction on my face, some of the things he was saying…He kept sort of stopping and going, ‘I can see where–’, he kept on saying, ‘Stay with me, but this is going to work.’”
I’m very curious to see what story this sequel is going to tell. On top of the film, there’s also an origin spinoff series coming to Disney+ that will focus on Danai Gurira’s character Okoye.
Source: Variety