Marvel Studios announced today that production has begun on Black Panther starring Chadwick Boseman (Captain America: Civil War, Get on Up), Michael B. Jordan (Creed, Fruitvale Station), Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 12 Years a Slave), Danai Gurira (The Walking Dead, upcoming All Eyez on Me), Martin Freeman (Hobbit trilogy, Sherlock), Daniel Kaluuya (upcoming Get Out, Sicario), with Academy Award nominee Angela Bassett (American Horror Story, London Has Fallen), with Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Lee Daniels’ The Butler), and Andy Serkis (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Star Wars: The Force Awakens).
Coogler’s creative brain trust includes his frequent collaborators: director of photography Rachel Morrison, A.S.C. (Dope, Fruitvale Station), production designer Hannah Beachler (Creed, Fruitvale Station), editors Claudia Castello (Creed, Fruitvale Station) and Michael P. Shawver (Creed, Fruitvale Station); along with costume designer Ruth E. Carter (Selma, Lee Daniels’ The Butler), visuals effects supervisor Geoffrey Baumann (Doctor Strange, Avengers: Age of Ultron), Academy Award- winning makeup designer Joel Harlow (Star Trek Beyond, Black Mass) and seven-time Academy Award nominee, special effects supervisor Dan Sudick (Captain America: Civil War, Marvel’s The Avengers).
Ryan Coogler (Creed, Fruitvale Station) directs Marvel Studios’ Black Panther from a screenplay he co-wrote with Joe Robert Cole (The People v.
Marvel Studios’ Black Panther is produced by Kevin Feige with Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Nate Moore, Jeffrey Chernov and Stan Lee serving as executive producers.