Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa is meant to be the James Bond of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the upcoming Black Panther movie.
In an interview with Total Film, Ryan Coogler explained that Marvel Studios was interested in making Black Panther their James Bond movie, with T’Challa, of course, embodying a superhero version of 007.
“When I first started talking to Marvel, one thing they were interested in was for Panther to be their version of James Bond, which I thought was incredibly interesting and exciting.
There are some Bond films that I really, really like, and it gave me the opportunity to go watch some other ones.”