Wakanda Forever’ Shuts Down As Letitia Wright Recovers – The Hollywood Reporter

Disney’s extremely anticipated Black Panther sequel has hit a brand new pace bump.

The Marvel function, Black Panther: Wakanda Endlessly, is quickly shutting down because of the severity of the harm sustained by star Letitia Wright, sources near the manufacturing inform The Hollywood Reporter.

Wright was injured in late August whereas the movie was taking pictures a sequence involving a stunt rig on-location in Boston. On the time, Marvel Studios mentioned Wright’s harm would in the end not impression the taking pictures schedule of the movie.

After the harm, Wright left for London, the place the star has been since, whereas the manufacturing shot round her character, Shuri, the sister of Black Panther T’Challa. Wright’s Shuri turned a fan-favorite breakout within the 2018 blockbuster, which grossed $1.3 billion and received three Oscars. When star Chadwick Boseman died from most cancers in August 2020, the character was elevated because the lead of the sequel.

Wakanda Endlessly had been filming largely in Atlanta for the final two months. Director Ryan Coogler is alleged to have shot all footage that his crew is ready to with out Wright.

Sources say the manufacturing is taking the hiatus to reconfigure the shoot to get issues again on monitor for an early 2022 restart. The shutdown is predicted to start the week of Thanksgiving.

“Letitia has been recovering in London since September from accidents sustained on the set of Black Panther 2 and is wanting ahead to returning to work early 2022,” a consultant for Wright mentioned in an announcement to THR. “Letitia kindly asks that you just hold her in your prayers.”

Marvel already pushed again the discharge of Wakanda Endlessly in October, shifting it from July 8, 2022, to Nov. 11, 2022. Right now, insiders say, that new launch date stays intact.