Not for much longer, if John Singleton has anything to say about it. He’s been attached to CAGE for years (possibly with actor/singer and robot-fighter Tyrese Gibson) but hasn’t been able to get the bulletproof brawler a fair shake. And now the 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS director tells Blackfilm he might try to help T’Challa to screens as well: “There is a race to see if I’m going to do ‘Luke Cage’ first or ‘Black Panther’. I really wanted to do both of those pictures. I’ve always been a fan of Marvel comics, so it depends. I can do ‘Cage’ or ‘Black Panther’. I’ve just been approached about doing ‘Black Panther’.”
Singleton also says that CAGE has a script but is battling Hollywood’s perception that the self-proclaimed Hero for Hire would be a “small superhero movie”. Which it sort of should be — a more grounded and gritty ghetto savior (or the politician/crimefighter dynamic of PANTHER) might be a welcome antidote to some of the brainless bigger-scale superhero flicks.