Black Panther: Wakanda ForeverShuts Down Production Until 2022

The upcoming ( andrecently delayed ) Black Panther continuation , Wakanda Forever , has had to close down its production . Actor Letitia Wright , who play T’Challa ’s whiz sis Shuri and was previously reported to have a vocal anti - COVID vaccine stanceon localize , suffered an harm while film that was fairly terrible to warrant everything going into stasis through the remainder of 2021 .

In tardy August while film in Boston , Wright got bruise shooting a sequence involving a stunt rig . At the time , Marvel Studios read this trauma would n’t impact yield , but well , here we are . Wright has since live on to London to retrieve , while the production retain to shoot around her character ’s absence seizure in the last two month as much as they possibly could . With the respite , which will begin on Thanksgiving calendar week and is expected to last through the respite of the year , the plan is to reconfigure the shoot and derive back in early 2022 .

A representative for Wright say that the actor “ has been recovering in London since September from injuries sustained on the solidifying of Black Panther 2 and is look onward to return to work early 2022 … Letitia kindly asks that you keep her in your prayers . ” Since Chadwick Boseman ’s passing belatedly last year , it ’s been an outlook that the rooter - best-loved Shuri would be centered as the atomic number 82 of the franchise going ahead and eventually take the mantle of Black Panther , as she previously has in the comics .