Black Panther will enter the museum. The costume worn by Chadwick Boseman in the first installment of the Marvel franchise, released in 2018, will go on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.
As the cultural establishment states on its website, this piece will be part of its upcoming exhibition, “Afrofuturisme: A History of Black Futures,” which opens on March 24, 2023.
According to the museum, this event will aim to highlight African-American culture and history through different forms: art, music, acts of activism, cinema…
“Black Panther is the first superhero of African descent to appear in mainstream American comics, and the film itself is the first major film based on such a character,” the museum explains on its website.
Marvel’s first black hero
In addition to Chadwick Boseman’s suit, according to the exhibition description, visitors will also be able to see many objects from pioneers of African-American culture such as Octavia Butler’s typewriter or Nichelle Nichols’s (Lieutenant Nyoto Uhura) uniform in star trek.
in the first part of Black PantherReleased in 2018, Chadwick Boseman played T’Challa, Prince of Wakanda, one of the heroes of Marvel comics since the 1960s. But the unexpected death of the actor in August 2020 due to colon cancer forced the director Ryan Coogler to review his casting.
If Letitia Wright has since taken over the costume Black Panther in his suite wakanda forever Released on November 9, Chadwick Boseman is still remembered as Marvel’s first black hero.
A breakthrough coupled with a commercial success, the Black Panther of 2018 generating no less than $1.34 billion in revenue. To the point of inspiring competition in an American film industry that is stepping up its efforts to make more room for diversity.
Source: BFM TV
