‘Black Panther II’ Was Scheduled to Start Filming in March 2021
By George Robbins
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU, is now considered to be one of the most expansive cinematic universes to ever exist and will go down as such in the history books. The amount of money that has been made based upon the box office of those movies is staggering and make it easily the most successful movie franchise in existence. Not only the box office but the merchandising that go along with it make it clear just how strong an influence these films have had over the years. The only other franchise with merchandising rights as strong as the MCU’s is the Star Wars franchise which is another cinematic universe controlled by Disney. Needless to say, the success of these franchises mean everything to the company.
All of this being said, there has been a lot going on due to the pandemic as of late and it has been affecting the production of these movies as a whole. Many of the productions being worked on in the MCU have had to be temporarily cancelled until conditions were once again safe enough for people to return to work. Within the past couple of months, these conditions have been met and productions have begun to start back up again. Not only have they started back up again, but there are plans in place in order to allow new productions to begin next year as well. One of the bigger ones that has been mentioned lately was the ‘Ant-Man 3‘ production which is set to start filming in June.
Another MCU production that we just found out was supposed to start in March of 2021 was the production for ‘Black Panther II.’ Unfortunately, it seems that these plans are going to be set back a bit because of the recent unfortunate passing of the lead actor, Chadwick Boseman. Boseman played the titular ‘Black Panther‘ in the film and was a major part of what made that character so great. With his passing, there is now a gap in what they had originally planned, and now they will have to wait a while longer before they can come up with something new for when they start production. Surely they will figure out what they are going to do, but this will not change the fact that the sequel will just not feel the same way as the original did.