Marvel Studios’ highly anticipated sequel “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is temporarily shutting down.
The reason for the shutdown is said to be due to the severity of the injury sustained by star Letitia Wright (who plays T’Challa’s sister Shuri) in late August.
Wright was shooting a sequence involving a stunt rig on-location in Boston and at the time it was said the injury would not impact the shooting schedule of the film.
After the injury, however, Wright left for London where the star has been ever since as the production continued in Atlanta and shot around her character.
Director Ryan Coogler is said to have shot all footage that his crew is able to without Wright. The film will now take a hiatus from the week of Thanksgiving to reconfigure and get things back on track for an early 2022 restart.
Marvel recently pushed back ‘Wakanda Forever’ to a November 11th 2022 release and at this time the new release date remains intact.
Source: THR
