Blade Official Blade General Discussion and Speculation Thread!

[Man in the Suit]

 

[psylockolussus]

Good Lord. I feel like they have cast the lead role so many years ago that the script should have been ready by now, or that they should have done filming and just doing the visual effects.

I think this is a problem when Marvel Studios has too many projects. We are getting Thunderbolts, Sam Wilson, Daredevil, Deadpool, Wonder Man, Ironheart, Agatha, Echo even before this... I'm assuming this would be delayed to 2024 then. And its probably not just another 4 months but almost 12 months.

 

[Tg11]

Then they may as well delay Blade again until 2025

 

[Albright]

With the writers strike they probably delay Deadpool 3 as well.
They want to spread the existing content out to fill the gaps.
They probably shift Thunderbolts from July to November (like they did with the Marvels).

 

[Tg11]

With the writers strike they probably delay Deadpool 3 as well.
They want to spread the existing content out to fill the gaps.
They probably shift Thunderbolts from July to November (like they did with the Marvels).

I wouldn't be opposed to that either

 

[SirStrangefolk]

DanielRPK is ostensibly saying Saul Williams is playing Jamal Afari in this.
That role that was originally rumored for Delroy Lindo, but no word on whether Delroy Lindo would still appear in another role so far.

 

[SirStrangefolk]

DanielRPK claims that Delroy Lindo will instead play Deacon Frost and reiterates that Mia Goth will be Lilith.

 

[Tg11]

I love that this film will not only differentiate from the 1998 version but this more so is basically a true origin film

 

[Pennywise]

 

[psylockolussus]

Mahershala Ali Was Reportedly Ready to Leave Blade, Early Script Had Him as 4th Lead

Mahershala Ali was reportedly ready to leave Marvel Studios' Blade reboot after one script saw him as the fourth lead in the film.

www.superherohype.com

Sounds bad.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Mahershala Ali Was Reportedly Ready to Leave Blade, Early Script Had Him as 4th Lead

Mahershala Ali was reportedly ready to leave Marvel Studios' Blade reboot after one script saw him as the fourth lead in the film.

www.superherohype.com

Sounds bad.

As public criticism mounts, Feige is pulling the plug on scripts and projects that aren’t working. Case in point: the “Blade” reboot. With Mahershala Ali signed on for the eponymous role of a vampire, things looked promising for a 2023 release date. But the project has gone through at least five writers, two directors and one shutdown six weeks before production. One person familiar with the script permutations says the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons. Blade was relegated to the fourth lead, a bizarre idea considering that the studio had two-time Oscar winner Ali on board.

Amid reports that Ali was ready to exit over script issues, Feige went back to the drawing board and hired Michael Green, the Oscar-nominated writer of “Logan,” to start anew. Speculation around town is that the studio is looking to make the film, now slated for 2025, on a budget of less than $100 million — a deviation from Marvel’s big-spending strategy.

The Variety piece fits with the idea that it is/was less a Blade movie and more of a Blade’s daughter movie. Which while could have been okay for an eventual sequel (if there weren’t already like 50 other new MCU heroes we’ve all lost track of), it is not where they should start.

June 2022 rumor:

Blade Reboot Adds Child Actor Milan Ray, Is She Playing the Daughter of the Daywalker?

The Wonder Years star Milan Ray has joined Marvel's Blade.

movieweb.com

The casting of the 14-year-old actress Milan Ray, who is best known for her roles in The Wonder Years and Modern Love, lines up with the previous rumor that Fallon Grey will play a major role in Marvel’s Blade. A previous report claimed that the studio was actively looking to cast a mysterious character named “Ruby,” a teen described as "thoughtful, serious, and burdened by growing up in a complex world.”

February 2023 release:

Bloodline: Daughter of Blade (2023) #1 | Comic Issues | Marvel

Browse the Marvel Comics issue Bloodline: Daughter of Blade (2023) #1. Learn where to read it, and check out the comic's cover art, variants, writers, & more!

www.marvel.com

 

[The Lazarus Pit]

**** all this.

I’m glad we got the three movies we got. We’ll always have those. I enjoy all of them for different reasons. The first two are just awesome.

Mahershala is great but will inevitably be a worse Blade than Snipes. Maybe they should just scrap this and do a Blade 4 with Snipes.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Jeff Sneider / Contributor, @LAMag. Previously: @Variety, @TheWrap, @TheAnkler, @Collider: "I’m told that the current BLADE script is roughly 90 pages and features exactly TWO (lackluster) action sequences. Mahershala said to be very frustrated with the process. Feige said to be spread too thin. But hey, that’s just what sources are telling me. Don’t shoot the messenger" (September 27, 2022)

Jeff Sneider (paraphrased): Blade was gonna tie in with Kit Harrington's character in Eternals. I heard they cut this out of the newest script. They're maybe recasting some of the parts like Blade's daughter, the 14 year old. (Hot Mic Podcast, March 16, 2023, 39m30s)

Jeff Sneider: "EXCLUSIVE via THE HOT MIC: The executive who was overseeing BLADE has exited Marvel Studios. A source indicated it was because they didn’t sound the alarm early enough regarding problems on the project. Their IMDB and LinkedIn profiles have not been updated yet." (November 2, 2023)

 

[Mani-Man]

While Sneider is at this point a questionable source for truth, the troubles on Blade have been spoken about by others.
And it is baffling.

How is this Project on such shaky legs?
Why not simply do John Wick with Vampires?

What is so hard to get this going?
It doesnt need to move the MCU forward, it can stand on its own legs.
Just make a good Action movie...that doesnt strike me as such a Impossible task.

 

[The Lazarus Pit]

They should just bring Snipes back at this point. Especially if they want to focus on his daughter. That plot (as dumb as it sounds) works better for a Blade that is already established in other films.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

If they were gonna spend $200M on Blade they wanted the broadest audience possible (including little kids and women) to try to profit from it. At least with a lower budget (before reshoots) they can in theory more narrowly target an audience and still come out ahead. Adjusted for inflation, the old Blade movies weren’t big box office earners.

 

[psylockolussus]

I don't want to see a Blade 4.

If they can't figure this out for it to be ready to be filmed in 2024, delay it to phase7en or phaseight and put it on ice or cold storage for now.

 

[emielaen]

Losing Ali in favor of Snipes is the funniest take ever.

 

[psylockolussus]

Do we eXpect Wesley to appear in Secret Wars?

I've never liked the previous Blade films, and I am hoping to watch a Blade film that I will enjoy. So to read that Marvel Studios is having trouble making a Blade film (when they also got several Blade films as references aside from their own films) is just... I thought Kevin Feige would have had his vision for Blade, ready when he decided there's going to be a Blade film in the 1st place.

They hired the lead actor in 2019, and with the lockdowns, I would have thought a script would have been finished by then. And instead, we are getting Deadpool 3, Captain America 4 and Thunderbolts first. The latter two were just announced last year.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[RockSP]

Losing Ali in favor of Snipes is the funniest take ever.

Especially if any of those wanting Snipes were also complaining about Ali being too old for the role. "This dude in his 40s is too old! Let's bring in a guy in his 60s!!!"

 

[Pennywise]

 

[psylockolussus]

How many times have they delayed this?

I won't be surprised if it moves to 2026, because 4 MCU movies for 2025 are simply just too much and all of them aren't even sequels. So how are they are going convince people to watch all of those in under 12 months...

 

[Luigi]