Everyone wants to be The Black Panther

Everyone wants to be The Black Panther

Black Panther seems to be one of the most coveted characters right now. The comic book hero Black Panther or T’Challa, king of Wakanda is according to the rumors appearing in Joss Whedon’s Avengers 2 and will most likely have a solo movie after that, in the Marvel Phase 3 universe.

Actors Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Gbenga Akinnagbe and Anthony Mackie have popped up in relation to the character and now a new name surfaced that of the actor Morris Chestnut. So let’s go one by one. Anthony Mackie is playing the Falcon in the upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, so probably he won’t be playing Black Panther or at least I don’t see Joss Whedon making that sort of decision, it will be confusing if he changes characters between movies. Gbenga Akinnagbe, although he is a known actor, he doesn’t seem to have the gravitas to pull fans to watch the movie, I think. Now to the most likely actors to appear as Black Panther Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Morris Chestnut. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is a well known actor that played various good and mainstream roles, such as Simon Adebisi on OZ, Mr. Eko on Lost, Heavy Duty on G.I. Joe:  The Rise of Cobra and is now playing Algrim and Kurse on the upcoming Thor: The Dark World, and while I still suffers from the same problem as Mackie, he most likely be in heavy makeup or in a motion control get-up, so there is a possibility, besides he already express his desire to play the part;

"I would hope that playing Kurse would ingratiate me to becoming the Panther. You get in and have success in one, and you go and do the next one. [My campaign] is definitely not dropped. He's one of my faves. I would love to play him," source MTV

Morris Chestnut, also a well-known actor that has in is back pocket roles in V, American Horror Story and the upcoming Kick-Ass 2 also expressed his desire to play the part, but he was little more specific in his message via Twitter;

"Not final. #BlackPanther may be in #avengers2 first."      

So what do you think, does Morris know something we don’t know? Who do you think is the best to play the part?    

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