An oil and gas supply vessel has made its feature-film debut – in Marvel’s ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’.
The Harvey Sub-Sea, pictured above at the Shell MARS production facility in the Gulf of Mexico, can be spotted in the trailer for the blockbuster movie.
© Marvel StudiosPlot details are under wraps, but the trailer shows sinister figures seeming to crawl up the ship under cover of night – bound to be breaching all manner of HSE regulations…
“Namor the submariner” features as the antagonist in the movie, which opened on November 11, promising a heavy focus on the ocean.
Jack Fitzgerald, a broker at Clarkson’s Offshore and Renewables, shared a story on how the vessel, owned by Harvey Gulf International, came into Marvel’s view.
Posting on social media, he said: “It was March 2021 when I got a call from Marvel Studios searching for a Vessel to be filmed in an “upcoming project”.
“Now 20 months later finally seeing the results on the big screen was surreal. The Harvey Sub-Sea made its theatrical debut in the new Black Panther: Wakanda Forever film on November 11th, 2022.”
In November last year, eagle-eyed YouTube user “goldenstrings studio” captured footage of the oil and gas vessel being used for Black Panther filming.
He shot video, at a distance. of the filming taking place off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia, capturing several takes of helicopters landing on and being used to film the ship.
The 100-foot vessel was built in 2017, with gross tonnage of 8,417.
It’s not the first time that Marvel producers have looked to the offshore industry for support – the studio approached Aberdeen-based Well-Safe Solutions.
© Supplied by Marvel StudiosFour members of the visual effects team visited one of its vessels back in August 2019.
The team came on board the Well-Safe Guardian, stationed at Nigg in the Cromarty Firth, to shoot “textured photography”.