we’ve seen quite a bit of concept art Black Panther: Wakanda Forever At this stage, Phil Sanders shared a very early design for Shuri and Ironheart’s costumes before Chadwick Boseman’s death.
As you can see, both costumes are very different from what they ended up on screen. Inspired by the winged suit worn in the Iron Heart comic.
“This is a difficult one to post” Sanders captioned his post “This was the first image of #blackpanther #wakandaforever, painted a few months before #chadwickboseman’s tragic death. At the time, we knew very little about BP2’s story (which would change anyway. As you can see, the seed of the final Mk2 suit is the copper coloration, the overall heart It was already present in the theme, the profile of the mask, and even the introduction of blade-like vanes to the helmet. , I imagined Riri mathematically optimizing the panel splits for maximum flexibility.”
“We created another image of the Lili and Shuri pair that everyone loved at the time, but now it feels jarringly off-tone.” he added. Standing on a balcony in Wakanda, the pair see Riri (wearing prototype mk1 armor) taking a selfie with the princess like a wide-eyed tourist, while Shuri gives her a sullen sideways glance. is pointing. Maybe by the time the artbook comes out, the loss will be less raw and we can look back at it as a vision of what might have been in more innocent times. “
As Sanders points out, he wasn’t working on specific story details when coming up with these designs.
What do you think of this alternate look for Shuri? Let us know in the comments (see our review here).
of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), Mbaku (Winston Duke), Okoye (Danai Gurira), and Dora Mirage (including Florence Kasumba) prevent the world powers from intervening. fight to prevent About the death of King T’Challa. As the Wakandans struggle to embrace the next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of war dogs Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) to blaze a new trail for the Kingdom of Wakanda. must be Introducing Tenoch Huerta as Namor, King of the Land Hidden Under the Sea, the film also stars Dominic Thorne, Michaela Coel, Mabel Cadena, and Alex Livanari.