The Black Panther first appeared in the pages of the Fantastic Four comic in 1966 and is considered the first black hero in mainstream comics. A movie version was in development at Columbia in the early 1990s with Wesley Snipes on board to star in an Indiana Jones-style adventure.
Snipes remained attached to Panther even when the property transferred to Artisan Entertainment, best known for making The Blair Witch Project. At the time it had several Marvel films in development.
Marvel reacquired the rights to Panther in 2005 when it absorbed a host of character licenses from Lionsgate, which bought Artisan in 2003.
Back in 2010 BET was set to release an animated version of The Black Panther on it's channel but it never made it. Of all places the series premiered in Australian children's channel ABC3 in January 2010. The series subsequently appeared online in North America under the title Black Panther: Who is the Black Panther? on June 23, 2010 through iTunes, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and Zune.
The Series starred the voice of Djimon Hounsou (Amistad, Blood Diamond) who I wouldn't actually mind seeing getting the role of the Black Panther in the film version.
On a certain level, Bailey is an odd choice to write an a Black Panther movie. The scribe’s credits include stints as a writer or story editor on hard-hitting HBO documentaries such as Pandemic: Facing AIDS and Ghost of Abu Ghraib. His most recent project, being developed by Chockstone Productions, is a feature adaptation of the non-fiction book The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon, to which Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) is attached to direct.
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