A new Netflix western called The Harder They Fall features a touching tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman who passed away in August 2020 following a private four-year battle with colon cancer.

The film about black cowboys tells a fictional story based on real-life figures from American history.

It stars Idris Elba, Regina King and Jonathan Majors and features a steam train hijacking to free Elba’s outlaw Rufus Buck out of custody.

A picture shared by Netflix on Twitter reveals the name of the train is CA Boseman.

The post said: “A nice little easter egg from The Harder They Fall: The train is named C. A. Boseman, in tribute to the brilliant and beloved Chadwick Boseman.”

Boseman was 43 when he passed away last August.

He was best known for playing the lead role in Marvel’s superhero Black Panther and earned posthumous acclaim for his final role in the Netflix drama Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, for which he was nominated for an Oscar.

Rapper Jay-Z is a producer on The Harder They Fall and he has said he wanted to “see us represented” in the western.

At the world premiere he said: “Just to see us represented, you know, with a lot of films we didn’t see ourselves in westerns, as if we didn’t exist.

“It is almost odd, people think that it’s like a caricature, that they are playing roles, but they’re not playing roles.

“These names like Stagecoach Mary, all the actors in this, they really existed in this time, so just see us represented and see that we have voices.”

The Harder They Fall is now streaming on Netflix.