Marvel Studios has confirmed that there won't be no replacement for Chadwick Boseman’s character in Black Panther 2.
Late Chadwick Boseman, 43-year-old, led the hit 2018 film Black Panthers as T’Challa, the king of Wakanda.
Well, Kevin Feige, the Marvel boss disclosed that Boseman’s performance was “iconic and transcends any iteration of the character in any other medium from Marvel’s past”.
“And it’s for that reason that we will not recast the character.”
“To honour the legacy that Chad helped us build, we want to continue to explore the world of Wakanda and all the rich and varied characters introduced in the first film.”
Director Ryan Coogler, who made the original, is already “hard at work” on the follow-up, which is due for drop in July 2022, Feige added.
There had been speculation that film-makers would use a digital double for Boseman in the sequel, but that has previously been denied by executive producer Victoria Alonso .
It should be recalled that actor Chadwick passed on 4-years after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
There are speculation he could win a posthumous Oscar for playing a headstrong trumpeter in his final film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which was recently released in cinemas and is out on Netflix next week
Black Panther made a whooping sum of $1.3bn (£1bn) at the global box office and went ahead to become the first superhero movie to be nominated for best picture at the Oscars.
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