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   Outside of family, only a small group of insiders was aware of   
   the Marvel star’s battle with cancer, and now studio executives   
   are grieving and figuring out a way forward.   
      
   On Aug. 28, Marvel chief creative officer Kevin Feige received   
   an urgent email regarding Chadwick Boseman, with no further   
   information. Unbeknownst to anyone at the studio, the Black   
   Panther star had been battling colon cancer privately for four-   
   plus years and had taken a sudden turn for the worse. By the   
   time Feige read the message an hour later, Boseman already had   
   died, sending shock waves through Disney and the tight-knit   
   Marvel Cinematic Universe.   
      
   A source close to Boseman tells The Hollywood Reporter that the   
   43-year-old actor, who had become noticeably thin in recent   
   months, was convinced until about a week before his death that   
   he was going to beat cancer and would be able to gain the weight   
   back for a Black Panther sequel that was scheduled to go into   
   production in March. The actor was even set to prepare for the   
   new film beginning in September.   
      
   Now, the studio is processing the grief of losing a loved one —   
   an actor beloved and respected on- and offscreen — while having   
   to face the economic realities of forging ahead with a billion-   
   dollar franchise without its titular star. Furthermore, his   
   death will ripple across the Marvel film universe, given that   
   the Black Panther character was poised to appear in other   
   interconnected films, as Boseman already had done in 2016’s   
   Captain America: Civil War, 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War and   
   last year’s all-time top box office grosser, Avengers: Endgame.   
      
   Disney sources say the company is processing its grief and that   
   its focus at this stage is to pay tribute to Boseman and not on   
   the making of a Black Panther sequel. Only a handful of non-   
   family members knew that Boseman was sick, including producing   
   partner Logan Coles, longtime agent Michael Greene, trainer   
   Addison Henderson and 42 director Brian Helgeland — with varying   
   degrees of knowledge about the severity of the actor’s   
   condition. No one involved with Black Panther was aware, says a   
   source. It was Boseman’s wish to keep his cancer battle private.   
      
   Many are left wondering how Boseman kept his diagnosis under   
   wraps while shooting a film with a colossal budget like the $200   
   million Black Panther in 2017 (the film opened the following   
   year and went on to earn $1.35 billion worldwide and was   
   nominated for a best picture Oscar). But film finance attorney   
   Schuyler Moore says a Marvel star wouldn’t likely require a   
   medical examination for insurance purposes.   
      
   “Big studios don’t often [get] completion bonds,” says Moore.   
   “They are more prevalent in the indie filmmaking world.   
   Sometimes, the big studios will look to insure for a particular   
   actor, but they usually have a particular reason for doing so.   
   Otherwise, studios will just shoulder the risk [of sickness or   
   death].”   
      
   In recent years, studios have contended with the sudden deaths   
   of franchise stars including Disney in 2016 with Star Wars’   
   Carrie Fisher at age 60, Universal in 2013 with Fast & Furious’   
   Paul Walker at 40, and Warner Bros. in 2008 with The Dark   
   Knight’s Heath Ledger at 28. In each case, the studios found   
   ways to move ahead with all-important franchises while also   
   honoring beloved or fan-favorite actors.   
      
   In Fisher’s case, Disney’s Lucasfilm initially said it would   
   carry on without Princess Leia — one of the most popular   
   characters in modern film history — for 2019’s The Rise of   
   Skywalker. It later changed course, putting Fisher back into the   
   story, with director J.J. Abrams incorporating a combination of   
   unused footage from 2015’s The Force Awakens and 2017’s The Last   
   Jedi and CG effects to create Fisher’s scenes in Skywalker. “We   
   assembled this enormous matrix of everything that she ever said,   
   and [co-writer] Chris Terrio essentially went through the   
   footage and wrote her scenes based around the lines that were   
   available,” VFX supervisor Roger Guyett of Industrial Light &   
   Magic told THR in January.   
      
   Likewise, Universal had issues of its own when star Walker died   
   in a car crash while on a break from filming the seventh   
   installment of Fast & Furious. After pressing pause on   
   production, the studio and director James Wan came up with a   
   plan that would salvage the movie but retire the character and   
   give him an appropriate sendoff. The production used Walker’s   
   two brothers as stand-ins for scenes and scans of their bodies   
      
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