“Narcos: Mexico” star Tenoch Huerta has joined the cast of Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” sequel currently in the works at Marvel Studios.
The company’s plans for the follow-up to the celebrated 2018 hit are coming into focus now with the project reportedly on track to start in July in Atlanta and will run throughout the entire back half of next year.
The film had hoped to begin shooting in March next year but those plans were waylaid by the sudden and unexpected death of star Chadwick Boseman. How the film plans to work around the death of its leading man isn’t clear, though what is clear is Boseman will not be digitally recreated.
Huerta is in talks to play one of the antagonists of in the new film with Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke and Angela Bassett all expected to return.
The news comes as Marvel Studios is heavily focused on TV right now as its Disney+ series start ramping up with Kevin Feige’s attention heavily on those from the ones already in the can like “WandaVision,” “Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and “Loki” to the currently filming “Ms. Marvel” (which just added Matt Lintz to the cast) and the on the way “Moon Knight” and “She-Hulk”.
Marvel also has three films either finished or in post – “Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” “Eternals” and “Black Widow” while both “Spider-Man 3” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” are already filming.
“Thor: Love and Thunder” is getting underway shortly and third entries in both “Ant-Man” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” will film next year alongside ‘Panther 2’. Development on both “Blade” and “Deadpool 3” continues as well with “Bob’s Burgers” duo Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Loeglin hired to pen the latter.
Source: Heat Vision
