ECLIPSED's Lupita Nyong'o & Danai Gurira Join Marvel's BLACK PANTHER Film

Over the weekend, it was revealed at Marvel's Comic-Con panel for the new film BLACK PANTHER, that ECLIPSED star Lupita Nyong'o and the play's author Danai Gurira have signed on to the cast, joining Michael B Jordan and Chadwick Boseman.

The film is directed by Ryan Coogler. Nyong'o will portray 'Nakia', while WALKING DEAD actress Gurira will take on the role of 'Okoye.'

Boseman will portray T'Challa/Black Panther, described as "king and protector of the fictional African nation of Wakanda." The movie hits theaters on February 16, 2018.

Marvel also announced the news on Twitter today:

Lupita Nyong'o recently received a 2016 Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her role as 'The Girl' in ECLIPSED. The role marked her Broadway debut. The actress was last seen in J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Maz Kanata. She lends her voice to Jon Favreau's upcoming The Jungle Book as Raksha and will next be seen in Mira Nair's Queen of Katwe.

Her feature film debut in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave earned her an Academy Award®, SAG Award and Spirit Award. She graduated from the Yale School of Drama, and her stage credits include Eclipsed (the Public), The Winter's Tale (Yale Rep), Uncle Vanya and The Taming of the Shrew.

The new American play ECLIPSED, by award-winning Zimbabwean-American Playwright/Actress, Danai Gurira (co-author of In the CONTINUUM and Michonne on AMC's hit series "The Walking Dead") is set amid the chaos of the Liberian Civil War and reveals distinct women who must discover their own means of survival in a hostile world of horrors not of their own making.

Source: Deadline

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