Before Marvel created an unparalleled universe in which everything and everyone was connected, there were some casual attempts here and there during the 90’s to bring the first heroes to the silver screen independently.
So one of them had to be Black Panther with Snipes (at the height of his fame at the time) as the intended protagonist.
Too early To
Collider, Snipes stated that a frequently mentioned problem threw a spanner in the works:“We had the rights and 3 script versions, but simply not the computer capabilities of today. Pixar didn’t exist yet and the CGI trick of today, you could only dream of. So it was too difficult to make. Long story short , we didn’t make it in the end and the rights flowed back “ .
Although he didn’t play the warrior from Wakanda, Snipes won’t have lazed for long, as a few years later he successfully played a much cooler Marvel character who might have been even more suited to him, vampire hunter.
