Marvel Studios Blade Mahershala Ali is Blade

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

https://i.imgur.com/LgoDSa5.png

No sign of X-Men, other than possible random cameos in Deadpool 3.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

No sign of X-Men, other than possible random cameos in Deadpool 3.

And those will undoubtedly just be various Fox-Men. I don't see Deadpool 3 unveiling any MCU-proper X-Men.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Anyone else sew the writing on the wall? Various delays, not just on account of the “strike bull” but because of other factors, losing directors, the main star threatens to walk, film delays, etc. I’ll be surprises this even gets made at this point let alone believe it’s coming in 2025

[Zulithe]

I don't know how accurate it is but I've seen the same report about X-Men casting repeated for over a year now. Supposedly one reason they can't fast track X-Men is they can't cast new actors for certain X-Men roles for contractual reasons until a certain time/date has passed. This is why we may be waiting until 2026 at the very earliest.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Kevin Feige needs put his big boy panties on and to take control and fix things or else find someone else who can, because Marvel’s going to sh*t on his watch and he doesn’t seem to be doing much about it other than “getting frustrated”. Clearly he’s in way over his head or something is going on.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by TheCanadiandrome

Anyone else sew the writing on the wall?

No.

Various delays, not just on account of the “strike bull” but because of other factors, losing directors, the main star threatens to walk, film delays, etc. I’ll be surprises this even gets made at this point let alone believe it’s coming in 2025

They've shot like 80% of the movie already. It's happening. And I don't think it ever "lost" a director? And "main star threatens to walk" sounds like internet rumormill stuff that probably didn't even happen.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

No.



They've shot like 80% of the movie already. It's happening. And I don't think it ever "lost" a director? And "main star threatens to walk" sounds like internet rumormill stuff that probably didn't even happen.

I’ve seen it posted in a few places that he threatened to walk when a re-write of the script didn’t even have him as the star, and I also say in a couple places that it’s gone through a few different directors, several script re-writes and other delays. If this actually manages to come out in 2025, as I said, I’ll be shocked

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/256...ie-mcu-updates

[Andrew NDB]

Whoops, I thought this was the Deadpool 3 thread. No, you might be right. Though at this Mahershala has been boasted about for so long now as Blade they kind of need to make it just to leave his rep intact.

[Autbot_Benz]

[Andrew NDB]

Jeeze. I wonder what went wrong this time? Enough is enough? Or I wonder if those Snipes-for-Blade-4 petitions went somewhere.

[Zulithe]

How hard is it to make a blade movie... you have a badass killing vampires... like c'mon. I think their casting was all wrong on this one anyway, the guy is too old to play blade IMO. Get someone who's young and super fit.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Zulithe

How hard is it to make a blade movie... you have a badass killing vampires... like c'mon. I think their casting was all wrong on this one anyway, the guy is too old to play blade IMO. Get someone who's young and super fit.

Yeah, and even if Snipes' Blade popped up in it, it'd be like Shaft (2000)... with Richard Roundtree basically the same age as Sam Jackson who is supposed to be his "uncle."

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Zulithe

How hard is it to make a blade movie... you have a badass killing vampires... like c'mon. I think their casting was all wrong on this one anyway, the guy is too old to play blade IMO. Get someone who's young and super fit.

Probably having too hard a time figuring out exactly where to cram in the woke agenda stuff in a movie like that. Or somehow tying it to the rest of the MCU.


Oh and obligatory 'only one Blade, baby' joke.

[XERO]

At this point, it's just becoming a meme.

We'd probably get Wesley Snipes's f*ckin' CORPSE to pop up as OG Blade again before we get this one.

Sad, man. I was really looking forward to this one. I'd imagine Mahershala Ali is pretty pissed about it.

[Andrew NDB]

Mahershala Ali says if Marvel still ends up doing Blade, it's not gonna be with him:

https://www.ign.com/articles/its-off...k_HHJ3ZJiWUydg