In The Zone '98
Superstar
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
Marvel Studios’ BLADE with Mahershala Ali Announced
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Eternals and Shang Chi didnt hit
Not tryna spend another $200m on a maybe
The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
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 timeI don't even get what's so hard about putting this shyt together
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
Veteran
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
Call me Dad
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
I don't even get what's so hard about putting this shyt together
character too complicatedActor too difficult
Tell us that vampires/monsters/demons always existed in the MCU. After the opening action scene, have Elsa Bloodstone inform Blade about a powerful macguffin located inside Dracula’s tower. He’s plan and what will happen if he succeeds. Have Blade fight his way up the tower on some Raid, Dredd, and Game of Death type of timing. Putting the beats on a variety of vampires/monsters/demons. Blade makes it to the top of the tower and confronts Dracula. Only to he find out that the powerful macguffin is another copy of the Darkhold. Blade defeats Dracula and takes the Darkhold adding it to his collection. The post-credits scene is Dr. Strange taking the Darkhold and hinting at the Midnight Sons.
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Dillah810
Flat Girther
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
Jesus is king of kings and lord of lords.
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.
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.
The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
And they put it in there, announced the most rare material in the MCU, and nobody gave a fukk about the movie or the explanation
Marvel is actually right to not respect their fans
YOU CAN MAKE A BIG BUDGET
VAMPIRE KILLING MOVIE
FOR 50MS
In The Zone '98
Superstar
YOU CAN MAKE A BIG BUDGET
VAMPIRE KILLING MOVIE
FOR 50MS
Plausible. But at this point, Kevin isnt interested anymore
Uchiha God
Veteran
Yeah well, a giant face sticking out of Earth is generally kinda more likely to attract attention than a random species/group of people that belong to a specific setting - I didn’t see people clamoring for Talokans when they’re watching Thunderbolts or The Marvels or some shyt - hence the wording “your audience doesn't need to be handheld nor owed explanations to/for every minute details”.
The crux of the argument being: “where are the vampires?” is no reason to be stumped and/or insurmountable hinderance to devising a Blade movie, as it was presented.
Uchiha God
Veteran
YOU CAN MAKE A BIG BUDGET
VAMPIRE KILLING MOVIE
FOR 50MS
Exactly. And unlike Shang Chi or Eternals - the blueprint, and audience familiarity, already exists. People are better off just saying “they don’t want to do it” - rather than these justifications they’re coming up with
Ironman
#Knickstape
Blade 98 was around 40ms budget is easy and as far as vamps, they could just keep the population smaller located somewhere in europe. A small town or some shyt that they've controlled for centuries. Sort of like 30 days night with a combination of the Raid/John Wick. Involve the Darkhold and use it to expose the world to all kinds of supernatural shyt. We know Mephisto is here so demons exist in some form.
YOU CAN MAKE A BIG BUDGET
VAMPIRE KILLING MOVIE
FOR 50MS
Every time Blade gets brought up I get annoyed because Dr. Strange multiverse of madness could've easily introduced all the major dark creatures. Gateways conjured by the darkhold that drop demons, monsters, werewolves, vamps, ghosts, other witches, whatever else is necessary. That would make Dr. Strange get proactive in getting Midnight Sons together. This bullshyt took me 5 minutes
"Take a John Wick movie. Give mobsters fangs. Swap Keanu for Ali, hand him a sword, not a daughter who makes him fret over swinging the hero’s name. Wick cost 20 mill to make. Add 10 mill for vampire/Darkhold magic VFX, you have 30-40 mill Marvel movie."
X-MEN '97 Showrunner Beau DeMayo Reveals Details Of His THE RAID-Inspired Script For MCU BLADE Reboot
Former X-Men '97 showrunner Beau DeMayo has shared some very interesting details of the MCU Blade reboot he was working on before being "pulled off the project."comicbookmovie.com
"Studio’s broken. I wrote 3 drafts and a dozen outlines in 3 impossible months, my fav was a “The Raid”-style treatment where Blade finds himself defending a rundown tenement of humans from Varney’s vamp hordes until daylight. Took place over one night Blade learns from tenant Jericho Drumm that Varney’s attacking b/c the female tenant who Blade sorta fancies has been magically impregnated with Lilith by tenants who’re secretly Darkhold Cultists. Think 30 Days of Night meets Rosemary’s Baby."
Homie already put Feige on game but he didn’t listen. Might as well just rehire bruh lol.
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