Following the announcement that Chadwick Boseman would be playing the lead role in Marvel’s newly announced Black Panther movie, Robert Downey Jr., the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s senior member, welcomed the new edition publicly on Twitter.
Downey posted the following photos to his Twitter account, showing himself and Chris Evans with Boseman, both on stage and backstage at the event.
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The @Marvel universe is now even larger. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Black Panther… pic.twitter.com/X0G7whoVbL
โ Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) October 28, 2014
The three actors will appear together in Captain America: Civil War on May 6, 2016. Boseman will take the lead in Black Panther, opening November 3, 2017.