The Disney-Electronic Arts deal might no longer cover just the Star Wars licence but also the Marvel IPs that belong to the Mousebird Kingdom.

It’s been almost a decade since Disney and Electronic Arts agreed to exclusive use of the Star Wars licence. Still, that time is over as the resurrected LucasFilm Games has handed out the rights to the likes of Ubisoft/Massive Entertainment and Quantic Dream. The relationship between the two companies is already there, but so far, there has been no talk of the publisher led by Andrew Wilson turning to Marvel…

Jeff Grubb, writing for VentureBeat, on a live broadcast of Game Mess Mornings, mentioned on Giant Bomb’s Twitch channel that Sony (Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Marvel’s Wolverine) and Take-Two (Marvel’s Midnight Suns) are not the only ones working on comic book licenses. There is an Electronic Arts studio, announced last year but not yet christened, that Grubb says is making a game of Black Panther. The studio is headed by Kevin Stephens, formerly vice president of Monolith Productions, which developed Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor and Middle-Earth: Shadow of War.

The game will be an open-world, single-player action RPG. It will be less linear than Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was, but its success has influenced the Black Panther project. For this reason, it does not have a live service model. After the death of the previous Panther, T’Challa, a new one will take the baton, and that’s where we step into the story. Grubb and his co-host Mike Williams weren’t sure we could create our character.

The game, called Project Rainier, is most likely a reference to Washington State’s Mount Rainier and is still in a relatively early stage of development. The developers behind it have come from Monolith Productions. It’s not official yet, but Grubb is pretty sure of what he said. In any case, an open-world Wakanda sounds very exciting.

Source: WCCFTech