One of Marvel's next films could be Black Panther

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One of Marvel’s next films could be Black Panther

Marvel has been talking a lot the last year about what movies they would be doing next, a lot of which involve bringing lesser-known characters and stories to the screen. There’s the Ant Man movie still in progress, a possible Guardians of the Galaxy movie, a possible Moonknight movie, but it looks like that one that very likely will be on the slate for 2013 will be Black Panther, which could also put him in Avengers 2.

Latino Review says one of Marvel’s yet to be announced films will be Black Panther, but that’s all the info the site has. We know that the studio commissioned a script last year from Mark Bailey, who seemed like a left-field choice. Bailey’s work includes documentaries such as Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House, Pandemic: Facing AIDS and A Boy’s Life, and he scripted an adaptation of the non-fiction book The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon, which Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) was once going to direct.

There have been nods to the Black Panther in a couple other Marvel films: we saw his home country Wakanda on a map in Iron Man 2, and that land is the home of the stuff from which Captain America’s shield is made. And there’s stuff in the classic Black Panther story that would fit in with the world Marvel has built on screen so far: T’Challa, the king of Wakanda, ingests an herb that both links him to his god, and provides superhuman strength. Convenient! T’Challa’s aim is to make Wakanda a technological powerhouse, and the character has been a member of the Avengers.

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