Djimon Hounsou still wants to be your live-action Black Panther

Djimon Hounsou did the part of Black Panther in a short - lived animated series , and he was in line to play the part if there ’d been a third Fantastic Four movie . But Hounsou tell io9 he ’s still dying to play T’Challa .

For those of you who ’ve missed out on the character , Black Panther is n’t a 1960s African American basal — he ’s the king of his own African country , Wakanda , and he uses fantastical technology as well as the fabulous mineral vibranium to fight evil . He ’s been friend with the Fantastic Four , and has connect their squad a couple sentence , and he ’s also get together the Avengers at a few points in the squad ’s history .

We had a one - on - one interview with Hounsou about Julie Taymor ’s The Tempest ( which we ’ll be take to the woods early next week ) and we had to ask him about Black Panther . Hounsou says he ’s still eager to take on the role , and the liven up series was direct at build stake in a live - natural action Panther flick . “ That was the approximation : using it as a leverage to tell a feature story , ” he says .

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Given that Marvel is doing an Avengers movie , and hopefully will do multiple Avengers continuation , we wonder if Black Panther could seem in one of those . But Hounsou says he sees T’Challa as star in his own stand - alone moving picture instead .

Playing T’Challa on screen would be fun , add Hounsou :

He ’s a mogul , he ’s a man of the people , and he ’s very potent — he challenges himself throughout his kingdom , and I imagine that ’s rare when the king pose his own life sentence [ on the line ] and challenges [ multitude ] to beat him , in ordering to see [ who ’s ] the best out there … He ’s really coolheaded . He come from a world in Africa that is coolheaded , and has all those minerals and it ’s very exciting . It ’s just a matter of time for that to be realized .

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