Spearheading the project, Wesley was more than ready to wear a cat-eared leotard.
The afrofuturistic Black Panther will finally get the proper cinematic debut he deserves next month, with Ryan Coogler directing the high-budget film. However, a Black Panther film was very close to getting created in the 90s, Wesley Snipes revealed to. Wesley, hoping to the play the title role, was aiming to highlight the lesser-seen, wealth-filled history of Africa.
Wesley faced continual ignorance and misunderstanding from studio execs as he tried to launch the project off the ground. It was often assumed that he wanted to make a movie about the 1960s civil rights group,."They think you want to come out with a black beret and clothing and then there’s a movie," Wesley said. It also appears that Wesley’s vision was too grand for the CGI technology available at the time.
Perhaps one of the hardest things to imagine is Wesley donning the Black Panther’s costume. Wesley admits he envisioned it being a simple black leotard with “cat ears” and was prepared to “just be straight bodied up” for the look. Unfortunately — or maybe fortunately, depending on how you look at things — the project fell through. So Wesley shifted his focus and succeeded in getting Marvel to create a film about Blade, a black vampire. The film was the first highly successful film for Marvel.
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