Marvel Entertainment is reported to be working on a spin-off film following the success of Black Panther Movie.
The TV series according to The Hollywood Reporter is to focus on T’Challa’s younger sister, Shuri played by Guyanese-British actress Letitia Michelle Wright.
The series is set to be launched in October this year.
The new series will be called, Shuri. It is being written by award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor who is a Nigerian.
Okorafor wrote the digital comic series Black Panther: Long Live the King for Marvel. The Shuri series will have art work produced by Hawkeye artist Leonardo Romero.
Okorafor is quoted as saying that “[Shuri is] an African young woman of genius level intelligence who is obsessed with technology and has traveled spiritually so far into the past that she’s seen Wakanda before it was Wakanda. The Ancestors call her Ancient Future. And she’s super ambitious. What do I love about her? Alllll that and more,”
Why Shuri
The series will fit into the continuity of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther comic book series. It tells the story of T’Challa moving into space to explore the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda.
He left the actual nation without a leader…which means that Shuri, as the next in line to the throne, has to step up as monarch, whether or not she likes it.
Marvel’s superhero film Black Panther took more than a billion US dollars (£794m) at cinemas worldwide.
It was the fifth movie based in Disney’s Marvel Universe to hit the milestone.
The film stars Chadwick Boseman as the crime-fighting ruler of Wakanda. Wakanda is a fictional African nation with the most advanced technology on earth.
Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B Jordan and Daniel Kaluuya play key roles, with The Hobbit star Martin Freeman as CIA agent Everett Ross.
The film has been widely praised as game-changing – including by Michelle Obama – for having a largely black cast and a black director, Ryan Coogler.
Source: Africafeeds.com
