Marvel Studios considered introducing the fictional country of Wakanda much earlier than in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther.
Wakanda is a staple of Marvel Comics, but it’s only now making its debut on-screen – a decade after the Marvel Cinematic Universe took its first steps with Jon Favreau’s Iron Man.
But now that Wakanda is officially joining the MCU, it will start to play an integral role.
The thing is, Wakanda was technically first introduced in Favreau’s Iron Man 2 in 2010.