Marvel Studios has hired Mark Bailey to write the script for The Black Panther, reports Heat Vision.
Bailey hails from the documentary film world and his credits include HBO documentaries such as “Pandemic: Facing AIDS” and “Ghost of Abu Ghraib.” The trade says his latest project 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 is attached to direct.
The Black Panther first appeared in the pages of the “Fantastic Four” comic in 1966. The character is the king of a resource-rich fictional African country who becomes a superhero.
Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige is producing.
