Wesley Snipes had wanted to play the Black Panther in the 90s, and had gone to Columbia Pictures with a script. He later went on to play the vampire hunter Blade; he was still interested in playing the Black Panther, but Marvel decided to go a different direction while Mr. Snipes is busy creating his own superhero roles and writing superhero books and screenplays.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Anthony Mackie and Djimon Hounsou were considered for the role of T'Challa. All three would go on to play other characters in Marvel films: Agbaje was Algrim/Kurse in Thor: The Dark World (2013) Mackie was Sam Wilson in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Hounsou was Korath in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).!
