Marvel Studios started production on Black Panther this weekend in Atlanta, Georgia and Martin Freeman was spotted reprising his role of Everett K. Ross from Captain America: Civil War.
Chadwick Boseman is set to star as the title hero in the film alongside Michael B. Jordan, who will play Erik Killmonger (a villain in the source material), Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia (a former member of Wakanda’s Dora Milaje, now an agent of Killmonger), Forest Whitaker as elder statesman Zuri, Daniel Kaluuya as T’Challa’s confidant W’Kabi, Florence Kasumba (Captain America: Civil War) reprising her role as Ayo, Winston Duke as M’Baku, aka the villain Man-Ape, Danai Gurira as Okoye (a member of the Dora Milaje, the wives-in-training for the King of Wakanda), Letitia Wright, Sterling K. Brown as N’Jobu, a figure from T’Challa’s past; and Angela Bassett as Ramonda, mother of T’Challa.
Black Panther will be released in theaters on February 16, 2018.
EXCLUSIVE to Twitter: #ChadwickBoseman in Costume! pic.twitter.com/zXPgFtKWVy
— Atlanta Filming (@AtlantaFilming) January 22, 2017
Martin Freeman joined the cast of #BlackPanther on set in Atlanta! Check out pics: https://t.co/Ysvr0ka2C1 pic.twitter.com/4cNKD7jWGR
— JustJared.com (@JustJared) January 21, 2017