Marvel Studios’ BLADE with Mahershala Ali Announced

[In The Zone '98]

I don't even get what's so hard about putting this shyt together

Eternals and Shang Chi didnt hit

Not tryna spend another $200m on a maybe

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

I don't even get what's so hard about putting this shyt together

It's not standalone... The second they introduce something new, yet in current MCU, they have to start explaining where the fukk these people/things were the entire time

Oh we got vampires? Where the fukk they been this entire time and how will the entire MCU move forward when people will ask "but where's the vampires" every goddamn movie

It's why they need 2, 3 hour movies to explain mutants

 

[Uchiha God]

It's not standalone... The second they introduce something new, yet in current MCU, they have to start explaining where the fukk these people/things were the entire time

Oh we got vampires? Where the fukk they been this entire time and how will the entire MCU move forward when people will ask "but where's the vampires" every goddamn movie

It's why they need 2, 3 hour movies to explain mutants

Evidently - it's not standalone. Your audience doesn't need to be handheld nor owed explanations to/for every minute details. Part of storytelling - especially in film format - is both respecting your audience and omitting some details - allowing space for the audience to fill-in the blanks - as well as storytelling by inference.

"where have vampires been all this time?" - here, throughout, sucking people dry all this time - and Blade has been hunting them. This time around the scale of XYZ is big enough that justifies the spotlight on them.

People won't be asking "where's the vampires?" every goddamn movie, the same way they don't ask where are the asgardians when they're watching a fukking ant-man movie, or where are the alien species in guardians of the galaxy when they're watching a spider-man movie. That rationale makes no sense and is verifiably false.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Evidently - it's not standalone. Your audience doesn't need to be handheld nor owed explanations to/for every minute details. Part of storytelling - especially in film format - is both respecting your audience and omitting some details - allowing space for the audience to fill-in the blanks - as well as storytelling by inference.

"where have vampires been all this time?" - here, throughout, sucking people dry all this time - and Blade has been hunting them. This time around the scale of XYZ is big enough that justifies the spotlight on them.

People won't be asking "where's the vampires?" every goddamn movie, the same way they don't ask where are the asgardians when they're watching a fukking ant-man movie, or where are the alien species in guardians of the galaxy when they're watching a spider-man movie. That rationale makes no sense and is verifiably false.

Yea... Marvel isn't this smart. Nor do they respect their audience. Hence why they only way they could move forward was gathering a bunch of old nikkas and letting their biggest star play a complete other character

 

[jdubnyce]

I don't even get what's so hard about putting this shyt together

character too complicated
Actor too difficult

 

[Jaguar93]

Tell us that vampires/monsters always existed in the MCU. After the opening action scene, have Elsa Bloodstone inform Blade about a powerful macguffin located inside Dracula’s tower. Have Blade fight his way up the tower The Raid/Dredd/Game of Death style. Putting the beats onto a variety of monsters. Blade defeats Dracula, and we find out that the macguffin is another copy of the Darkhold. Blade takes it and add it to his collection. The post-credits scene is Dr. Strange taking the Darkhold and hinting at the Midnight Sons.

 

[Dillah810]

Evidently - it's not standalone. Your audience doesn't need to be handheld nor owed explanations to/for every minute details. Part of storytelling - especially in film format - is both respecting your audience and omitting some details - allowing space for the audience to fill-in the blanks - as well as storytelling by inference.

"where have vampires been all this time?" - here, throughout, sucking people dry all this time - and Blade has been hunting them. This time around the scale of XYZ is big enough that justifies the spotlight on them.

People won't be asking "where's the vampires?" every goddamn movie, the same way they don't ask where are the asgardians when they're watching a fukking ant-man movie, or where are the alien species in guardians of the galaxy when they're watching a spider-man movie. That rationale makes no sense and is verifiably false.

To be fair, people were annoyingly asking about that celestial sticking out of the earth in every film after Eternals until Marvel said "here to go damn" in Captain America 4. And Eternals was a movie few people even liked.

 

[Child_Of_God]

Making a vampire triller film is not even remotely hard at all (marvel managed to do a film on a talking squirrel and a tree for crying out loud) Marvel simply never wanted to do Blade. Ali was the one to pitch the idea of rebooting it to Fiege.

The success of Sinners should have been a motivator for them but since Blade is not gay or a women they have no need on reviving it. In their minds San Wilson as Cap and T’Challa Jr is enough in terms of black male heroes.