BET Networks and Marvel Animation will preview The Black Panther animated series July 26 at Comic-Con International.
The television show, which will debut early next year, was announced in April. It will be adapted from the first six issues of the current Black Panther series, written by Reginald Hudlin, BET’s president of entertainment.
“I’m so proud I’ve been able to maintain a successful run of the series over the past three years while keeping my ‘day job’ of programming a network,” Hudlin said in a press release. “But now to have both of my worlds collide, to have a faithful adaptation of my own work as a prime time series on the network — it’s a dream come true. The Black Panther has always been an inspirational character to me, and now I get to share that inspiration with the widest audience he’s ever had.”
The full press release can be read here.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
That’s gonna be awesome.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I just hope its beter than most of the programming he oversees at BET which is pure garbage…WHEW!!! The Black Panther comics has suffer a great deal since he has been at the helm of so lets hope this reinvigorates it and we can get a new writer. But is great to see a black character from Marvel get its own comic series on TV. I will be looking for it.
July 15th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I have mixed feelings on this considering Hudlin and BET’s history, if they do pull this off, I’ll be the first to applaud. The only thing that would make this perfect is if Priest came back to write the book and they used his run to intro the animated series….
July 15th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I am looking forward to this only because it will undoubtedly provide Aaron McGruder with an entire season’s worth of Boondocks material.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Have there been any art or trailers released for this yet?
July 16th, 2008 at 3:45 am
can’t wait to see how close it is to JRjr’s stuff