After almost four years since his last appearance on the big screen, a new Superman film is in development, and it could be different from the other films that feature one of America’s most well-known superheroes.

Award-winning essayist and novelist Ta-Nehisi Coates has been hired to write a script for a Superman reboot film that will be produced by director J.J. Abrams, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Coates and Abrams confirmed the reports about the Superman reboot on Shadow and Act, a website that focuses on the African diaspora in the arts.

“To be invited into the DC Extended Universe by Warner Bros., DC Films and Bad Robot is an honor. I look forward to meaningfully adding to the legacy of America's most iconic mythic hero,” Coates said in a statement on the website.

Abrams, meanwhile, also expressed excitement at the hire of Coates and the possibility of telling a “new, powerful, and moving Superman story yet to be told.”

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The feature film will reportedly be a Black Superman story, something which actor Michael B. Jordan previously tried to develop back in 2019.

Aside from being an acclaimed author of books like “Between the World and Me,” “The Water Dancer,” and “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” Coates has also previously worked on Captain America and Black Panther comics.

While the film has yet to have an official release date, it will likely be the first feature film to feature Superman since 2017’s “Justice League,” which featured actor Henry Cavill playing Kal-El. Cavill also played the iconic hero in 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and 2013’s “Man of Steel.”