Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman will be honored posthumously with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Nov. 20.
Director Ryan Coogler, who helmed both Black Panther movies, and Viola Davis, who worked with Boseman in his final film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, are set to speak at the event. Boseman’s widow, Simone Ledward-Boseman, will accept the award on her late husband's behalf.
Boseman passed away in 2020 after a four-year battle with colon cancer. Though he will forever be best-known as The MCU's original Black Panther, T'Challa, the versatile actor has also played James Brown, Thurgood Marshall, and Jackie Robinson, and earned numerous award nominations over the course of his career.
Boseman played T'Challa across four movies, with Letitia Wright taking up the mantle of Black Panther in Wakanda Forever. Rumor has it that Marvel Studios is currently searching for an actor to play a new take on T'Challa for the next Avengers movies and beyond, but it probably won't be the same character Boseman played, rather an older version of the son he had with Nakia.
“The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is deeply honored to celebrate Chadwick Boseman’s extraordinary legacy with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,” Ana Martinez, Hollywood Walk of Fame producer, said in a statement. “His powerful performances and enduring impact both on and off screen continue to inspire generations around the world.”
Boseman’s star is located at 6904 Hollywood Blvd., in front of the Hollywood Experience.
We recently learned that Words + Pictures, the documentary production studio behind Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, are developing a new doc about Boseman. Details on the project are few and far between at the moment, but there's a good chance the doc will end up on the Disney+ streaming service.
You can check out the trailer for Super/Man below.
"A nuanced and inspirational account of the life-changing legacy of leading man turned disability activist Christopher Reeve.
Reeve found global fame as Hollywood’s era-defining Superman in the 1970s, but his life was forever altered when he was paralysed from the neck down following a 1995 spinal injury. From his beginnings as a theatre actor to his global superstardom to his life of post-accident advocacy, this beautiful, open-hearted portrait weaves together a warming cinematic blanket of archival footage, home movies, interviews with friends and family, the recurring presence of long-time pal Robin Williams, and Reeve himself narrating from his 1999 autobiography Still Me.
Inspiring a standing ovation at its Sundance premiere, this emotional cine-portrait is as complex, and at times conflicted, as Reeve himself. While chronicling the struggles and controversies that Reeve encountered after 1995, directors Ian Bonhôte (McQueen, MIFF 2018) and Peter Ettedgui also position the actor as a figure to explore disability advocacy and under-acknowledged struggles within the disabled community. Both Super/Man and its titular figure are powerful vessels of empathy and humanity."