{"id":11501,"date":"2011-01-20T18:44:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T23:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=11501"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:57:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:57:25","slug":"marvel-hires-scribe-for-black-panther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/20\/marvel-hires-scribe-for-black-panther\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Hires Scribe For BLACK PANTHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/BlackPanther.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11502\" title=\"BlackPanther\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/BlackPanther-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Another piece in the picture puzzle that is Marvel Studios&#8217; post-<strong>Avengers<\/strong> plans materialized today as they announced the hiring of Mark Bailey to pen a screenplay based on their popular Black Panther character. Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/13\/marvel-studios-kevin-feige-talks-thor-captain-america-avengers-and-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">hinted<\/a> last month that there were plans in the work for a Black Panther film so today&#8217;s announcement comes as no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey seems to be an odd choice for the assignment. Although he has television documentaries on his resume, he has no produced feature film credits.<\/p>\n<p>Considered by most as the first modern black superhero, the Black Panther is T&#8217;Challa, king of the African nation of Wakanda. As ruler, he has access to a mystical connection to an African panther god which grants him heightened senses, agility, strength and stamina. He also has his country&#8217;s vast store of magical artifacts and advanced technological weapons at his disposal.<\/p>\n<p>For several years while the rights were out of Marvel&#8217;s hands, Wesley Snipes was attached to an effort to get a Black Panther film going at Universal.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>Black Panther<\/strong> film joins <strong>Iron Man 3<\/strong>, <strong>The Runaways<\/strong>, <strong>Iron Fist<\/strong> and <strong>Ant Man<\/strong> on Marvel Studios&#8217; docket of potential projects hitting theaters after <strong>The Avengers<\/strong>&#8216; summer 2012 debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Another piece in the picture puzzle that is Marvel Studios&#8217; post-Avengers plans materialized today as they announced the hiring of Mark Bailey to pen a screenplay based on their popular Black Panther character. Marvel Studios <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/20\/marvel-hires-scribe-for-black-panther\/\" title=\"Marvel Hires Scribe For BLACK PANTHER\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1534,1972,3407],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-black-panther","9":"tag-kevin-feige","10":"tag-mark-bailey"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11501"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}