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Angela Bassett joins <em>Black Panther</em>

Los Angeles - Angela Bassett has joined Black Panther.

Marvel Studios have confirmed the American Horror Storystar will portray Ramonda, the mother of the titular character, aka T'Challa, in the forthcoming film.

A statement on the studio's website read: "Academy Award-nominated actress Angela Bassett has joined the cast of Marvel Studios' Black Panther."

"Bassett, who currently stars in American Horror Story, will play Ramonda, mother of T'Challa, aka Black Panther. (sic)"

Chadwick Boseman has already signed up to portray the main character and Lupita Nyong'o will star as Nakia, a potential wife for Black Panther's alter ego T'Challa, who also pops up in the comics as a villain named Malice.

Michael B. Jordan will play Erik Killmonger, an expert fighter and nemesis of Black Panther, in the film, which is being directed by his Creed and Fruitvale Station helmer Ryan Coogler.

The motion picture is expected to expand on the storyline that was first introduced in Captain America: Civil War of how T'Challa becomes the Black Panther.

T'Challa's father T'Chaka is king of the African nation Wakanda and has the ceremonial title Black Panther as the chief of the Panther Tribe, but is killed when a bomb goes off at the UN making his son the Black Panther.

Other actors in the movie include Forest Whitaker, who will take on the role of Zuri, an elder statesman in Wakanda, and The Walking Dead star Danai Gurira, who is to portray Okoye, the head of the Dora Milaje, the Black Panther's personal bodyguards.

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