“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” scene at MIT, 2022
Left to right: Danai Gurira as Okoye and Letitia Wright as Shuri in Marvel Studios' Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in a scene shot at MIT, summer 2021. A special screening of the movie occurred on campus on November 20, 2022.
Excited cheers and applause filled the 26-100 lecture hall on Nov. 20 [2022], as 77 Massachusetts Avenue — the main entrance to MIT — appeared on the big screen during a showing of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The several hundred MIT students in the audience had been waiting with eager anticipation for the first glimpse of their campus, which was used as a filming location in summer 2021.
“Knowing that they shot scenes on campus was really exciting,” said graduate student Jatin Patil as he waited in line for the special screening. “I’m excited to see a bit of campus in the movie.”
Several students at the screening were at MIT when scenes were shot last summer, and they noted feeling a special connection to the movie.
“This has been a long time coming for me,” explained sophomore Ananda Santos Figueiredo. “They started filming on campus the exact day I arrived at MIT last year. It was all new and exciting, and it was amazing to be on campus at that time and start getting to know the MIT community through the lens of this film.”
The movie aired in 26-100, a student-run movie theater operated by the MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC), during a special event hosted by the Institute Office of Communications and the Division of Student Life.