Marvel Studios Blade

[sh9000]

https://deadline.com/2019/07/blade-being-rebooted-by-marvel-with-mahershala-ali-1202650043/

Edited October 24, 2024 by sh9000

[Mog]

Cottonmouth was resurrected as Blade.

[Kanedas Bike]

Pretty good casting, especially if the new Blade is similar tonally to the New Line Cinema Blade films (at least the first 2 and not the awful Blade:Trinity).

-b. 

[ErikElvis]

According to that article we may be getting another fantastic 4. Yay.........

[TangledThorns]

Gonna be hard to top Wesley Snipes, especially if they don't make it rated R. He brought real street to the role.

[Mog]

Ali can definitely bring it.  

His Cottonmouth in Luke Cage Season 1 was a damn good foil.

That character was gangster to the core but with a set of standards.

[sh9000]

 

[hachi]

The Blade movies were good for their time, I wonder how they will make this interesting considering it will probably not be R-rated.

[Nightbat]

....reboot

"Some ............s are always trying to ice skate uphill."

[sh9000]

https://deadline.com/2019/07/wesley-snipes-reaction-blade-mahershala-ali-marvel-studios-comic-con-1202651723/

[sh9000]

https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/moon-knight-marvels-blade-reboot/

[sh9000]

[TangledThorns]

Gonna take a lot to beat the style of the original Blade films, the first two at least.

[Big s]

1 hour ago, TangledThorns said:

Gonna take a lot to beat the style of the original Blade films, the first two at least.

As much as I liked them, they felt more like matrix than Blade. I’m curious to see what approach they take with the new film

[TangledThorns]

1 hour ago, Big s said:

As much as I liked them, they felt more like matrix than Blade. I’m curious to see what approach they take with the new film

So funny you say that as BLADE pre-dates The Matrix by a year. I remember first seeing the trailer for the first MATRIX thinking it looked it borrowed from BLADE in style with martial arts, lots of tight fitting black leather (very 1990s!) and coats plus SFX with slo-mo bullets.

[Big s]

11 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

So funny you say that as BLADE pre-dates The Matrix by a year. I remember first seeing the trailer for the first MATRIX thinking it looked it borrowed from BLADE in style with martial arts, lots of tight fitting black leather (very 1990s!) and coats plus SFX with slo-mo bullets.

It was the style back then. I kinda get confused sometimes on which of them came first. Eventually there was Equilibrium and quite a few other stylized long leather jacket acrobats. The comics had a lot less of that attitude and style though, and the current mcu has a very different style, but still feels a bit like some of the extreme stuff from the older 90’s even with the more serious movies and I’m curious to see if this turns out more late 90’s style or modern or trash like morbius or if they try to keep things a bit more grounded. I’d be super surprised if they went with a more grounded approach and they probably will end up more similar to the older movies than the old comic stuff.

[sh9000]

[Big s]

48 minutes ago, sh9000 said:

I would be too if the director of my movie quit a day before shooting was supposed to start 

[TangledThorns]

Ali is a good actor and I suspect he can only take so much crap before quitting himself. 

[sh9000]

https://www.ign.com/articles/marvels-blade-mahershala-ali-reportedly-very-frustrated-with-the-process

[sh9000]

Looks like it.

[Old_Nash_II]

3 hours ago, sh9000 said:

Looks like it.

https://screenrant.com/blade-movie-release-date-removed-marvel-slate/

Yep

[TangledThorns]

What a joke and Ali should move on before he starts receiving Social Security checks, lol.

That being said most people may not be aware but BLADE was the first major motion picture blockbuster for a Marvel comic character.

 

[Big s]

7 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

That being said most people may not be aware but BLADE was the first major motion picture blockbuster for a Marvel comic character.

Nah, most people are aware of it since it’s the first thing anyone talks about when Blade gets brought up these days.

Its the new version of the Peter Venkman/Garfield actor / voice actor swap thing

[TangledThorns]

1 hour ago, Big s said:

Nah, most people are aware of it since it’s the first thing anyone talks about when Blade gets brought up these days.

Its the new version of the Peter Venkman/Garfield actor / voice actor swap thing

 

I think if you ask someone who isn't a Macross forum member (non-nerd, lol) what the first Marvel blockbuster film was I bet a dollar their answer would be either Spider-Man, XMEN or even Iron Man.

[Tking22]

I remember reading Disney/Marvel thought Snipes was too old to carry a new Blade franchise, but Ali is up there too, and yeah, Snipes just played Blade again and he is still perfect, just dump what they have and start from scratch with Snipes at this point.