Winston Duke Cast As M’Baku In Marvel’s Black Panther Posted by Wilson Morales
September 29, 2016
Source: Variety
According to Variety, Winston Duke, most recently seen on CBS’ Person of Interest, has been cast in the role of the villain M’Baku, aka Man-Ape, for Marvel’s Black Panther.
In the comics, M’Baku was a Black Panther villain with mystical powers who tried to usurp the Wakandan throne.
Ryan Coogler will direct the film from a script he’s writing with Joe Robert Cole.
Chadwick Boseman will star as the title hero in Black Panther and he’s joined by Michael B. Jordan, who will play Erik Killmonger, Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia (a former member of Wakanda’s Dora Milaje, now an agent of Killmonger), and Danai Gurira as Okoye (a member of the Dora Milaje, the all-female security for the King of Wakanda).
Shooting begins in January in Atlanta, Georgia. Black Panther hits theaters on February 16, 2018 release
