Around this time last year, Stan Lee jumped on Twitter and started talking about Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man, along with other forthcoming Marvel Studios big-screen projects like Iron Fist, Doctor Strange, and Black Panther. Most people thought that Stan was just dreaming out loud, and then we heard that they were indeed working on a possible Doctor Stange film, and Iron Fist movie, and now it seems they are also prepping a Black Panther film.

THR reports that Marvel Studios has hired screenwriter Mark Bailey to write the big-screen adaptation of the comic book Black Panther. Bailey is an odd choice, having only written an HBO documentary entitled Pandemic: Facing AIDS and acted as a story editor on just a couple of other projects.

The Black Panther first appeared in the pages of the Fantastic Four comic in 1966 and is considered the first black hero in mainstream comics. A movie version was in development at Columbia in the early 1990s with Wesley Snipes on board to star in an Indiana Jones-style adventure.

Snipes remained attached to Panther even when the property transferred to Artisan Entertainment, best known for making The Blair Witch Project. At the time it had several Marvel films in development. Marvel reacquired the rights to Panther in 2005 when it absorbed a host of character licenses from Lionsgate, which bought Artisan in 2003.

No Production or release dates have been set for Black Panther.