Mia Goth says she had a costume and wig fitting for her role as Lilith in 'Blade': "I was very excited in the direction that it was going. It was very cool...and then it just unraveled from there, unfortunately."
>"I don't know what's going on with that. I think that they want to make it, and it's such an important film for them that they're taking their time with it. I really don't have any information. I don't know why it's taken the time that it has. We will see. Yeah, we will see."
>"The furthest that it got with me is that I went – I auditioned for that too actually – and I flew to Atlanta and we did a chemistry test between Marhershala and I. We did a costume fitting and a wig fitting, and I was very excited in the direction that it was going. It was very cool. And Marhershala had such an interesting take on it. He was great. And then it just unraveled from there, unfortunately."
legomaximumfigure2025-12-01 18:31
Mia:
>"and I flew to Atlanta and we did a chemistry test between Marhershala and I."<
They make movie stars take chemistry tests now?
Edit: /s
BatmanNoPrep2025-12-01 18:33
They always have. 🌎👩🏻🚀👨🏿🚀🔫🧑🚀🌔
Blue_Robin_042025-12-01 18:37
Yes. It's not like just because two people are famous, they belong in the same movie together.
alternatetwo2025-12-01 18:45
But what would them knowing chemistry have anything to do with that?
Blue_Robin_042025-12-01 18:48
Sure! So, when you hear that two actors had "chemistry," they are using the second definition, which is "The complex emotional or psychological interaction between two people." Ali and Goth's "chemistry test" would have been to see if they had the right energy for whatever the director was going for.
To save money on special effects, If the actors know chemistry they don’t have to hire an expert
figsnbirds2025-12-01 18:51
Insane how many people can type but don't know how to read
alternatetwo2025-12-01 18:52
How many layers of sarcasm are we deep now ...?
Iwillcommentevrywhr2025-12-01 23:40
Too many
IllllIIIllllIl2025-12-01 19:02
Well hey I haven’t taken one since high school so I’m happy to see Hollywood still cares about education.
GenGaara252025-12-01 21:00
I think you missed the joke, I did too on first read. They're joking about making movie stars take a science exam as part of a role. Double meaning of a chemistry test.
BucsLegend_TomBrady2025-12-01 21:52
Exactly. If two famous people can't balance a chemical equation, the movie will flop 100%
wishnana2025-12-01 18:49
Hopefully it didn’t involve stoichiometry. Shit will delay everything
CaptHayfever2025-12-02 06:46
Stoichiometry is just algebra. That was the easiest part of my chem classes.
mrbaryonyx2025-12-01 20:27
they pretty much always have: Hugh Jackman had a test with Anna Paquin back in the day
Boomerang20992025-12-01 21:07
I think a few people didn't understand your joke. Maybe an English test is needed
BucsLegend_TomBrady2025-12-01 21:54
It's pretty sad. And these are the people complaining that marvel movies have bad dialogue
eagles19902025-12-01 21:33
You can’t kill a vampire without knowing the difference between ionic and covalent bonds
legomaximumfigure2025-12-01 21:35
Egon Spangler insulting slime: "You have a weak electrochemical bond!"
IceColdDump2025-12-02 12:56
And how to force water into a phase change on a tilted plane.
alternatetwo2025-12-01 22:00
It's incredible how few people understood this was *~~satire~~ sarcasm lmfao
postac_czy_usionsc2025-12-02 13:30
Yes you have to run an experiment and write the result down
KnightOfRevan2025-12-02 15:51
It’s actually why the movie is taking so long. Mahershala just fucking sucks at chemistry and they can’t make the movie until he passes the big exam.
bristenli2025-12-01 18:02
Blade should have been the easiest slam dunk for Marvel after endgame.
No-Today-24592025-12-01 18:06
it really could have. he's a very well known and popular character that some don't even know is from marvel comics. what an epic fumble on feige and disney's part.
bristenli2025-12-01 18:07
Then to bring Snipes back *before* Ali’s blade actually debuted is wild
BIGsLazyEye2025-12-01 18:12
https://tenor.com/ocBvswCzAYZ.gif
jawsthegreat7772025-12-01 18:18
Technically Ali's blade did have an offscreen voice cameo in Enternals
lonelychapo272025-12-01 18:39
wait for real? can you explain this? i literally cannot finish eternals every time i try
majorjoe232025-12-01 18:43
Jon Snow finds a sword and Ali's voice says something like "There's other stuff you don't know about" or something like that.
lonelychapo272025-12-01 18:45
so they “you know nothing jon snow”’d jon snow outside of GoT? nice
ty_fighter842025-12-01 18:46
We were so close to getting Harington, Isaac and Ali in a project together...
Holmcroft2025-12-01 19:31
I’m still holding out hope we get that Midnight Sons movie
Chaucer852025-12-01 18:54
https://youtu.be/cGarvh9DooE?si=uvMty2ADR_xPZ_SZ
jawsthegreat7772025-12-01 19:16
At the end after Sersi is taken to space, Kit Harrington's character Dane Whitman picks up the Ebony Blade, the Black Knight's Sword. When he does, Blade (offscreen) says "Are you sure you're ready for that, Mr.Whitman?"
alenpetak112025-12-01 18:49
And this is why Eternals movie is goat.
LastTorgoInParis2025-12-01 21:34
Some of these post credits were so pointless and frustrating. Star Fox, Charlize Therons character, Hercules, Blade( voice only?!)
posterguyman2025-12-02 00:01
did they ever do anything with adam warlock
dogspunk2025-12-02 00:05
Guardians 3.
posterguyman2025-12-02 00:06
oh yeah, i forgot
lol man they took a character that helped beat thanos and made him an afterthought
now that takes talent
Misaki_Akuma0012025-12-02 01:03
To be fair, James Gunn didn't want to do Adam Warlock since his character is too difficult for him to handle but was forced by Marvel to include him in the end credit scene of GOTG Vol.2 and since he had to end the project with GOTG Vol.3, he had no choice but to introduce Adam to tie the loose-end plot that he left, so he felt like an afterthought the whole movie, can't really blame James though
hsaviorrr2025-12-02 01:32
what’s difficult about adam?
TomCBC2025-12-02 10:14
Was starfox the eternal whose suit makes them look like he’s got boobs?
Tbh, i’d prefer a movie with these guys.
LastTorgoInParis2025-12-02 13:11
Man if Nintendo pulls the trigger on that...
MVIVN2025-12-02 12:48
For real, and since Secret Wars is allegedly going to reboot the MCU that means all of those teases will literally just amount to nothing (unless they cram A LOT of shit into Doomsday and Secret Wars)
rcarroll2712025-12-01 22:39
It’s actually wild we got-a offscreen voice cameo, wesley snipes return, and an animated variant not voiced by him before we actually got Mahershala Ali
n_mcrae_19822025-12-01 18:31
What will we get first: a new Blade or GTA 6?
MeanderAndReturn2025-12-01 20:07
Half Life 3
NonnagLava2025-12-01 20:40
Like, maybe actually, though.
dratseb2025-12-01 21:12
I’d be shocked if it doesn’t drop with the steam frame with full hybrid VR support
Kennon1st2025-12-01 19:19
"Only ever gonna be one Blade."
Fuckareyoulookinat2025-12-02 02:27
"Theres only ever been one Blade, there's only ever gonna be one Blade."
Super_Pan2025-12-01 19:55
Well, some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill...
TPJchief872025-12-01 22:07
I love Blade 1 and 2, and in my heart I know it’s better to kill the new movie than F it up. Take the time and do it right. Marshahalla is a bit too old to be starting as blade. They should get that Snowfall kid or some other younrg actor to play the character.
Pitiful_Yogurt_52762025-12-02 09:45
And Mahershala Ali? What a great name they had at the time. He’s great still but he was coming off a string of
Well known media
shogi_x2025-12-01 18:11
I think the problem is just that once the whole multiverse saga fell apart it wasn't clear where or how Blade could be introduced.
CouldBeBetterForever2025-12-01 18:16
Could they not just make a Blade movie without trying to find a way to force it into the MCU as a whole? I mean maybe leave little hints of other stuff going on in the wider universe, but make it more or less self contained.
theknyte2025-12-01 18:21
Yeah, the exact same thing they did for stuff like Daredevil back in the day. Pretty much self contained, but in the background, there were newspaper articles and such about the attack on New York from the first Avengers.
It quickly established, yeah it's the same world, but this isn't about any of the other established heroes.
shogi_x2025-12-01 18:22
IDK, I think a number of other Marvel projects the past few years have tried to stand alone, only to be met with a barrage of questions about how it fits in. Daredevil, Werewolf by Night, She Hulk, Zombies, etc.
Edit: also that tie in at the end of Eternals kind of removed this possibility from the start
TopBee832025-12-01 18:37
You can’t satisfy everyone. If you make a self contained movie you’ll have some fans asking why it matters in the larger context.
If you make a movie that connects to multiple other movies you’ll have people complaining that they have to watch 3 others to understand this new one.
bee14ish2025-12-01 18:55
So instead they chose to satisfy no one. Great strategy.
Any-Transition952025-12-01 19:23
Exactly this that frustrates me the most. MCU is simultaneously "too much homework, projects are 2-hour ads for another project, projects need to be more standalone" while also "too disconnected, Multiverse Saga projects aren't as interconnected as the Infinity Saga, we need more teamup movies." I think their audience has just grown too large for them to try and satisfy everyone, they should just pick a lane and focus on it instead of trying to make something for everyone.
malb932002025-12-01 23:33
I agree with all of this, the audience is definitly too large now to satisfy everyone, the MCU has entered it's Star Wars/Star Trek phase where nothing will be good enough.
Also, the number of MCU projects just got too big, the universe has been sprawling to impossible levels.
It was easier to strike the right balance of "connected, yet standalone" when it was "just" 2 or 3 movies per year and an Avengers film every few years.
But adding the tv shows, live action and animated, the "special presentations", etc. It's just too much.
Paolo942025-12-01 19:38
At the end of the day fans just want quality content. More Shang-Chi and Loki, less Quantumania and Secret Invasion. Let’s be real, no one would be complaining about the movies connecting or not connecting if the writing was just good. The Guardians movies are beloved, and they mostly stand on their own. The Marvels tied in with the Disney+ shows, had a huge multiverse tease, and had a couple surprise cameos, yet we all know how that movie turned out. People want quality, regardless if the story ties into the bigger picture or not.
Antrikshy2025-12-01 18:21
In the same way as Werewolf By Night was introduced.
NotAStatistic22025-12-01 18:47
The same way Ant Man existed decades before the Avengers formed, and the Ancient One defended Earth from mystical threats for centuries.
Blade could've just been dealing with supernatural threats behind the scenes since killing demons and vampires is his specialty rather than fighting aliens.
He could just be written to have been trapped in Hell, or something, killing scores of demons like Doom Guy.
Or even write him as Dean Winchester who travels the country following up on reports of supernatural happenings.
I think just Blade showing up and killing vampires for 1-2 hours would've sold just as well with no explanation.
Jaideco2025-12-01 18:59
Yet they somehow managed Werewolf by Night and Moon Knight? Is there anyone outside of Disney who doesn’t think that you could just drop Ali in a leather trenchcoat and dark glasses into a rainy alleyway at night with a sword and fully automatic machine gun, have him kill a bunch of vampires and not have audiences buckled in and excited for the ride within five minutes?
ROBtimusPrime19952025-12-01 18:13
My guess is that Disney was enforcing the film to be PG-13, and Marvel just couldn't figure out how to do it.
This was before Deadpool, back when Disney thought a PG-13, non-canon version of Daredevil was also a good idea.
The drafts were all bad, not to mention the rumored plot leaks that barely had Blade in the film, and I think Marvel was probably pushing it out to avoid making it on purpose.
Deadpool then became a huge hit, proving the R-rating is necessary, but then a new problem arrived.
Marvel started having box office disappointments, and the Multiverse saga was a mess.
Now Blade is m.i.a. because of bad timing.
JayZsAdoptedSon2025-12-01 18:22
I think the trades have mentioned that it is $100 million R rated movie. They just have no idea which direction to go in. With the number of writers and directors that came and went
LowSkyOrbit2025-12-01 18:47
How hard is it to make a vampire hunter movie? Go get
Mike Flanagan to write and direct.
New Evil is taking over the dark areas of Manhattan. In the shadows undesirable people start disappearing. The cops don't care and the News has little to go on. Then step into the light is Blade. The reluctant daywalker who knows what to look for and can smell the scent of vampires hunting the dark corners of Manhattan.
Dane Whitman makes an appearance with that black sword ready to kill the evil which he mistakes for Blade. They then fight the deadly vampire together and old mansion in Harlem. Spiderman shows up in the end credits thinking it's Dr. Curt Connors transformed again and gets all weirded out by all the blood and says something like, "Oh Wow! This is why I don't hang out with Wade."
CavillOfRivia2025-12-01 18:59
> Go get Mike Flanagan to write and direct.
They would need to give creative control and the only thing the suits like more than money is to fuck things up for the creatives.
SteveFrench122025-12-01 19:01
Nah too easy
lazylaser972025-12-01 19:06
Sinners was made becasue they bought an unused wardrobe. That unused wardrobe was what Disney had assembled for at least one version of the unmade Blade movie
Impressive-Potato2025-12-01 21:02
"Sinners was made becasue they bought an unused wardrobe"
Oh yes that's totally the reason it was made
NotAStatistic22025-12-01 18:49
The leak that stated the film would be Blade mentoring someone in a passing of the torch story sounded awful too. If that was real, the person who gave that idea more than a second of consideration should be barred from ever writing again
Zestyclose_Lead74592025-12-01 20:22
I will never understand marvels fascination with the legacy characters in this saga.
You have characters like Blade, Ghost Rider, The X-Men, Nova, Hercules, Black Knight, Etc they've barely touched.
Yet they've become obsessed with these "young" characters they seemingly have no plan on. As far as we know. They haven't even sniffed a writer for a champions or YA show or film
KrifeH2025-12-02 04:37
They believe they can farm unlimited money by detaching the character and actor from the “mantle”
It’s just another MBA destroying art
Impressive-Potato2025-12-01 21:03
Right? Introduce a character only to introduce someone else.
They tried that with Blade Trinity.
alenpetak112025-12-01 19:06
Also everything in MCU works if plot is connected to Avengers movie. Blade character could work as variant in Doomsday/Secret Wars.
Same applies to Midnight Sons, it need to be connected to Avengers somehow. Via Wong, for example, or rename movie to Midnight Avengers because of Midnight Suns energy they use.
DudeManBo1t2025-12-01 19:12
Really wish Disney would acknowledge the adult fan base especially buying up IP. They have generations of kids that grew up on Disney and are adults yet keep fumbling trying to keep things PG-13 max. Its dumb and only hinders the end product
Going R with some projects helps make the universe feel more vast and complex and helps it be comic accurate in some cases
Live_Angle46212025-12-01 19:20
It was because Ali didn’t want the focus to be on Blade’s daugher so the script had to be re-written
Ben10_ripoff2025-12-01 21:24
Why do you even want the first MCU appearance of Blade to be about his daughter?? MCU's fetish of "fixing" the source material is really bad.
How hard is to write a story about a British Vampire hunter?? Just adapt JoJo's Bizzare Adventure Part 1 atp.
luvu3330002025-12-01 19:35
Huge disappointments weren't even huge. 382mil is something, F4 is even higher
SeekerVash2025-12-01 19:53
No need to guess, what happened was leaked a while ago.
Basically, the writers kept producing stories about everybody but Blade. There were scripts where Blade was "third lead", meaning a minor character.
For some unknown reason Feige was incapable of managing the project under him and requiring Blade scripts to be about Blade.
whitepangolin2025-12-01 18:27
While I agree, we would've never heard the end of it if they fucked the movie up.
N8CCRG2025-12-01 18:54
The fandom: "Don't worry about a good story or character development, just have Blade killing vampires and it's gold!"
Also the fandom: "Why are all of these new movies lacking in story and character development? It's like they're not even trying, but just expect us to consume the content because they have Marvel characters in it!"
We've all had projects we were unhappy with and wish that they'd scrapped and gone back to the drawing before instead of plowing forward. We should be glad they actually slammed the brakes on this instead of giving us a bad Blade movie (which we don't need more of).
Any-Transition952025-12-01 19:26
I think people are jaded as hell, but as you pointed out, if we had so many mediocre and bad projects coming out in Multiverse Saga that were never stopped at the planning stages like they should be, the fact they scrapped the Blade scripts so many times is indicative that it's even worse than all the bad projects we got. Why on earth would anyone want Marvel to squeeze out even more poorly written projects?
3-DMan2025-12-01 19:18
Yup, but some motherfuckers are always tryin' to ice-skate uphill...
Ballsnutseven2025-12-01 19:52
Also especially with Werewolf by Night + Moon Knight being a pretty good entry level short about the horror side of Marvel, it’s a shame they shafted Blade so hard.
It’s even more awkward with him appearing in Zombies because he’s supposed to be this established character, and even worse that they brought back Snipes before Ali even showed up 😭
Tetsujin11382025-12-01 22:03
fr, its a dude killing vampires to techno music, writes itself
chewywheat2025-12-01 22:16
Vampires are still popular, like it is so weird. Even just idea of more martial arts related choreography in the MCU (since Shang Chi) was at an all time high yet nothing ever came of it. So much misses.
JyconX2025-12-02 02:53
Easy how? By simply copying Wesley Snipes' Blade instead trying to make the MCU Blade its own thing?
DiddysOilDealer2025-12-01 18:12
There’s only ever gonna be one blade.
Philkindred122025-12-02 03:48
I'm interested in Arcane studio's upcoming game, sure feel like it could pick up the slack of this film, along being good as its own thing.
pje11282025-12-01 18:15
It's unfortunate how long this has taken, but hopefully they're really making sure it's a high quality movie. I'm still looking forward to it whenever it comes out.
ClaymoresRevenge2025-12-01 18:28
Just give it to Ryan Coogler and let him work.
Sinners is proof of concept
SebastianFast2025-12-01 18:36
You liked sinners? Oh...
King_Pumpernickel2025-12-01 18:44
What did you not like about it?
SebastianFast2025-12-01 19:54
Most of it. Poorly written dialog, pacing was torturous, and the ending they so obviously thought was worth sitting through said mess... Just wasn't.
tangokilo132025-12-01 19:57
I respectfully disagree, I was fully in on the movie well before the vampire plot line was introduced
ClaymoresRevenge2025-12-01 19:05
Yeah I enjoyed the movie.
DanTheMan_6222025-12-01 19:43
It's only one of the best movies of the year
majorjoe232025-12-01 18:47
I'm guessing they want him to keep focusing on at least one more Black Panther film. If he does Blade after that it will probably be five years from now.
Wrong-Vermicelli47232025-12-02 01:18
Or he just doesn’t want to do it.
PurifiedVenom2025-12-01 19:05
Oddly enough, while I thought Sinners was great, I’m pretty meh on both his MCU entries. He wouldn’t be a bad choice but idk if he’d be my first either.
Vinnie_Vegas2025-12-01 20:41
I don't think it's fair to necessarily judge him on Black Panther 2 given the circumstances.
The first is very overrated, but it's still a decent movie.
They're the two worst movies Ryan Coogler has directed though.
AEveryDayIdiot2025-12-01 22:36
I swear I remember a article saying the blade costumes went to sinners
ianj112025-12-02 06:30
This is true. The costume designer got Marvel to sell them to WB after the 1920’s version of the film fell apart.
monkeymad22025-12-02 14:21
And she (Ruth E. Carter) had initially made them for Marvel, then she was working on Sinners & bought the unused costumes.
MikeTheRedditGuy2025-12-01 21:12
Homie it’s never coming out
Hickspy2025-12-02 00:20
They've got to actually start making the movie to make sure it's a high quality movie. Not sure they've gotten to that step.
gomugomupirate2025-12-01 18:23
I am still confused as to why this movie never happened. Were they confused on how to add him in the continuity or were they hesitant to bring this side of Marvel. I was very happy when the movie was announced and now I am just confused, sad and longing
EnvironmentalBus97132025-12-01 18:29
They probably are hesitant on this side of Marvel. They had a banger in Werewolf by Night and they let that whole concept rot on the vine. Even if they limited it to Halloween fan-fare, it would have a strong audience.
Too many suits, too few creatives.
gomugomupirate2025-12-01 18:32
Yeah they could have rode the hype Werewolf has generated and yet they chose not to continue. Ali is already a well known actor and already has a good name in the Marvel universe even if they were doubtful they could've at least believed in him and could've continued the project😞😞
alenpetak112025-12-01 18:54
Don't mix WbN with rest of MCU because it is a short movie not having theater release.
EnvironmentalBus97132025-12-01 19:16
I'm aware but it fits in the context of Marvel's hesitation to spend more time in the thematic space of the supernatural and not taking advantage of momentum. They could have pivoted to make Blade a special presentation, if they were afraid of low theatrical numbers.
In the end, I don't think we'll find out why Marvel tripped themselves up.
alenpetak112025-12-01 19:18
Blade D+ stuff would be insanely bad move by MCU, look what WandaVision done to DSitMoM...
BowlingforBrains2025-12-02 11:21
Werewolf by Night was so great, and yet I completely forgot about it until you just mentioned it 😭 why haven’t they continued down that path at all?
GillGruntFan532025-12-01 19:10
The problem is they never wanted to make the movie, they just wanted the victory lap from announcing it. Two time Academy Award winner comes to them and says “Hey, I *want to* play this character” and Feige, fresh off that Endgame high, greenlights it for the crowd pop. And then they realized they have no actual plans for the character, they weren’t interested in anything R-rated at the time, and everything quickly fell apart.
CaptHayfever2025-12-02 06:47
This is the best summary of what happened, by far.
TypeExpert2025-12-01 19:12
Will never know, but I'm willing to bet they had 2 issues making this film.
1. This movie was probably PG-13 by design or corporate mandate as recently as early 2024. So between 2019 and 2023, they've been trying to make a pg-13 blade film with him protecting his daughter. Easy to see why that hasn't been made yet.
2. Continuity wise they probably don't know where to put it. Blade is over 100 years old. If he's been fighting vampires all this time, where has he been? And why has no one ever encountered vampire?
peesu2025-12-01 20:29
No one has encountered a vampire because Blade is just _that_ good at his job.
Jokes aside, remember Captain America? The scene where Red Skull was trying to get the cube, they unearthed some ancient cave filled with Asgardian murals, glyphs, whatchamacallits. They could do that too, but this time it's vampire legends of how they actually have a secret society that's been waiting for a prophecy or something.
Polarizing_Penguin112025-12-01 20:52
2 could’ve been solved by giving it the F4 treatment. Its the multiverse saga and only ONE movie takes place in another universe. Blade and Shang Chi were perfect candidates for more
RollingTake2025-12-01 21:07
> where has he been?
in the shadows
DefNotAShark2025-12-01 21:10
I think they probably hit the reset button because they were about to make another mid movie that fans would have hated. They were circling Blade back when Marvel Studios was drowning in how many projects they were making, so it's probably for the best they take a beat and start again.
Continuity wise I would say that there are probably vampires everywhere, but vampires in almost every fantasy setting are reclusive and private. It doesn't behoove them to have people knowing they're hanging out eating folks, especially in a world of superheroes. Most likely the sorcerers would be aware of their presence, but engaged in too many conflicts to start a vampire cleansing of Earth. I don't think anyone else would have both the knowledge and the manpower to take on all the vampires everywhere, so they just lay low and keep doing their thing. We only just found out that witches and the Talokanil (Namor's people) have been around all this time, so I feel like it's not a big deal to treat vampires similarly.
SeekerVash2025-12-01 19:57
Because Feige didn't control the writers and they kept writing about Blade's daughter, or the women in Blade's life, instead of Blade.
The story leaked a bit after The Marvels bombed. Variety (maybe Deadline?) Broke the story.
PointOfFingers2025-12-01 20:00
I think it suffered from not having a Disney+ tie in. Most of the underperforming movies since End Game have been connected to a Disney+ show.
ThermoFlaskDrinker2025-12-01 18:26
So technically Mia is the only one who has ever “seen” the MCU version of Blade, interesting
CosmicOutfield2025-12-01 18:30
I’d like to see this movie get made, but given how it’s been handled, I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets cancelled or Blade gets a new actor. Six years with no actual film progress is typically a red flag for cancellation, so this is certainly going to be unique if they do get to film Ali as Blade at this point.
cai_852025-12-02 14:58
I agree, Ali is 52 in February, so presumably will be 52-54 if they get their act together with the script and film it in the coming year or two. Where does that leave the character with the current rate of films being released? You're going to have an action-based hero in his late 50s and the timeline is reportedly going to be reset after Secret Wars anyway, it could work for a "passing the baton to the next generation" plotline but not really for a new trilogy or character that can come into the Avengers or Midnight Sons.
Better that they hold Blade for the post-Secret Wars reboot and start with an actor in his late 20s or early 30s that can put a decade or more into repeated appearances. They also have Snipes available after his comeback in DP3, so they can use him to cameo in Avengers Doomsday/Secret Wars if they would like to.
El_Stupacabra2025-12-01 18:37
Give me some comics, copies of Blade 2 and the episode(s) of '90s Spider-man where Blade showed up (to refresh my memory), and I think I could bang out something.
alenpetak112025-12-01 19:02
Well, most of MCU went into inflation and for me, Blade character only would work in Midnight Sons movie or to be addition to Avengers.
Snipes cameo in D&W shows why Ali's Blade won't work as they intended.
vroart2025-12-01 19:13
Sigh
tone20992025-12-01 19:22
Damn remember this potential movie??! I was so hyped when this was announced in 2019. A whole trilogy could’ve been made by now.
eagc72025-12-01 20:48
Considering how not evven Shang-Chi has gotten a second film 5 years in, i kinda doubt we would've gotten Blade 2 by now either :/
throwtheclownaway202025-12-01 19:26
How the fuck do they still not know where they're going with this? Blade is one of the least-complicated characters they have. It's not like the X-Men, where to have to figure out how to tell their stories without offending your boss. Put Blade somewhere, establish there's a vampire problem, then have him turn 'em to dust for 2 hours. That's it, there's your fucking movie. FFS, Sinners could have been a Blade movie.
ImpracticalApple2025-12-01 20:07
Would Blade have been British in the MCU? He's from London in the comics, it's just hardly anyone associates him with it now after the Snipes movies just made him American.
_steve_rogers_2025-12-01 23:27
Sinners basically is what Blade was gonna be, they even used the costumes made for the new Blade movie for Sinners after they decided to change direction again.
warcomet2025-12-02 03:47
if they recast again due to Ali being over 50 now and make him Brit, i'd Love David Ajala getting the role, he kinda looks a lot like someone in between Ali and Snipes..
Stormik2025-12-02 09:33
Weirdly enough movie companies having issues with simple concepts for movies is not that uncommon.
Take Doom for example. Humans do science. Science goes bad. Demons invade. A *random* guy stops them. Can't get much simpler than this. And they've colossally botched it... TWICE.
martialar2025-12-02 10:25
"what? it can't be that simple! make some of the shots be in first person, like you're actually playing the game, but in real life!"
Sorry, I never watched the Doom movie with the rock, but I remember these scenes being highlighted on TV
BowlingforBrains2025-12-02 11:19
It does seem like an easy source material for a movie - honestly, *a lot* of the video game adaptions that went wrong seem like they’d be easy to nail
dcooper86622025-12-01 19:31
Guys, give us an hour and a half of Blade chopping vampires with cool swords and awesome catchphrases. This isn’t rocket science. Mia Goth was attached to this too??? I had no idea. I’m somehow more sold on this and I was already on board. Come on.
truthwithanE2025-12-01 19:38
Really should have just handed the project over to one of the John Wick directors years ago. If they were too busy or expensive, maybe giving a shot to another former stunt coordinator/performer turned director. A Blade film shouldn't be this difficult to make considering two successful ones already exist.
PunishingCrab2025-12-01 19:48
At this point they’ll probably wait for the post Secret Wars soft reboot to fit blade in the “new” status quo. And by that time they’ll probably recast as well for someone younger. They really fumbled this one.
EL-YEO2025-12-01 19:50
I’ll give to Marvel and Ali though. They very well could’ve released a Blade movie which is a flop or they take their time to get the right movie script and director.
AppalachianMusic2025-12-01 20:00
Wasn't Fiegie like, "we dont just want trenchcoats and Blade killing vampires"?
Dude is a clown.
Realistic_Analyst_262025-12-01 21:47
Be real. Blade should have a good plot. Just killing no-name vamps would get old real fast. He is a character with great potential and I don’t think the Snipes movies capitalized on it too well.
emshaq2025-12-01 20:09
Blade and Shang Chi. Well done Marvel for capitalising on these characters so well.
_steve_rogers_2025-12-01 23:28
Sinners basically is what Blade was gonna be, they even used the costumes made for the new Blade movie for Sinners after they decided to change direction again.
ProfessionalCaptain42025-12-01 23:55
basicamente le tuvieron miedo a exito y por las filtraciones sobre los guiones descartado me deja claro que el problema no era en si la clasificacin r o pg-13 de haber salido eso de blade terciario todo el mundo no le hubiera gustado
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lol man they took a character that helped beat thanos and made him an afterthought
now that takes talent
Tbh, i’d prefer a movie with these guys.
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It quickly established, yeah it's the same world, but this isn't about any of the other established heroes.
Edit: also that tie in at the end of Eternals kind of removed this possibility from the start
If you make a movie that connects to multiple other movies you’ll have people complaining that they have to watch 3 others to understand this new one.
Also, the number of MCU projects just got too big, the universe has been sprawling to impossible levels.
It was easier to strike the right balance of "connected, yet standalone" when it was "just" 2 or 3 movies per year and an Avengers film every few years.
But adding the tv shows, live action and animated, the "special presentations", etc. It's just too much.
Blade could've just been dealing with supernatural threats behind the scenes since killing demons and vampires is his specialty rather than fighting aliens.
He could just be written to have been trapped in Hell, or something, killing scores of demons like Doom Guy.
Or even write him as Dean Winchester who travels the country following up on reports of supernatural happenings.
I think just Blade showing up and killing vampires for 1-2 hours would've sold just as well with no explanation.
This was before Deadpool, back when Disney thought a PG-13, non-canon version of Daredevil was also a good idea.
The drafts were all bad, not to mention the rumored plot leaks that barely had Blade in the film, and I think Marvel was probably pushing it out to avoid making it on purpose.
Deadpool then became a huge hit, proving the R-rating is necessary, but then a new problem arrived.
Marvel started having box office disappointments, and the Multiverse saga was a mess.
Now Blade is m.i.a. because of bad timing.
Mike Flanagan to write and direct.
New Evil is taking over the dark areas of Manhattan. In the shadows undesirable people start disappearing. The cops don't care and the News has little to go on. Then step into the light is Blade. The reluctant daywalker who knows what to look for and can smell the scent of vampires hunting the dark corners of Manhattan.
Dane Whitman makes an appearance with that black sword ready to kill the evil which he mistakes for Blade. They then fight the deadly vampire together and old mansion in Harlem. Spiderman shows up in the end credits thinking it's Dr. Curt Connors transformed again and gets all weirded out by all the blood and says something like, "Oh Wow! This is why I don't hang out with Wade."
They would need to give creative control and the only thing the suits like more than money is to fuck things up for the creatives.
Oh yes that's totally the reason it was made
You have characters like Blade, Ghost Rider, The X-Men, Nova, Hercules, Black Knight, Etc they've barely touched.
Yet they've become obsessed with these "young" characters they seemingly have no plan on. As far as we know. They haven't even sniffed a writer for a champions or YA show or film
It’s just another MBA destroying art
They tried that with Blade Trinity.
Same applies to Midnight Sons, it need to be connected to Avengers somehow. Via Wong, for example, or rename movie to Midnight Avengers because of Midnight Suns energy they use.
Going R with some projects helps make the universe feel more vast and complex and helps it be comic accurate in some cases
How hard is to write a story about a British Vampire hunter?? Just adapt JoJo's Bizzare Adventure Part 1 atp.
Basically, the writers kept producing stories about everybody but Blade. There were scripts where Blade was "third lead", meaning a minor character.
For some unknown reason Feige was incapable of managing the project under him and requiring Blade scripts to be about Blade.
Also the fandom: "Why are all of these new movies lacking in story and character development? It's like they're not even trying, but just expect us to consume the content because they have Marvel characters in it!"
We've all had projects we were unhappy with and wish that they'd scrapped and gone back to the drawing before instead of plowing forward. We should be glad they actually slammed the brakes on this instead of giving us a bad Blade movie (which we don't need more of).
It’s even more awkward with him appearing in Zombies because he’s supposed to be this established character, and even worse that they brought back Snipes before Ali even showed up 😭
Sinners is proof of concept
The first is very overrated, but it's still a decent movie.
They're the two worst movies Ryan Coogler has directed though.
Too many suits, too few creatives.
In the end, I don't think we'll find out why Marvel tripped themselves up.
1. This movie was probably PG-13 by design or corporate mandate as recently as early 2024. So between 2019 and 2023, they've been trying to make a pg-13 blade film with him protecting his daughter. Easy to see why that hasn't been made yet.
2. Continuity wise they probably don't know where to put it. Blade is over 100 years old. If he's been fighting vampires all this time, where has he been? And why has no one ever encountered vampire?
Jokes aside, remember Captain America? The scene where Red Skull was trying to get the cube, they unearthed some ancient cave filled with Asgardian murals, glyphs, whatchamacallits. They could do that too, but this time it's vampire legends of how they actually have a secret society that's been waiting for a prophecy or something.
in the shadows
Continuity wise I would say that there are probably vampires everywhere, but vampires in almost every fantasy setting are reclusive and private. It doesn't behoove them to have people knowing they're hanging out eating folks, especially in a world of superheroes. Most likely the sorcerers would be aware of their presence, but engaged in too many conflicts to start a vampire cleansing of Earth. I don't think anyone else would have both the knowledge and the manpower to take on all the vampires everywhere, so they just lay low and keep doing their thing. We only just found out that witches and the Talokanil (Namor's people) have been around all this time, so I feel like it's not a big deal to treat vampires similarly.
The story leaked a bit after The Marvels bombed. Variety (maybe Deadline?) Broke the story.
Better that they hold Blade for the post-Secret Wars reboot and start with an actor in his late 20s or early 30s that can put a decade or more into repeated appearances. They also have Snipes available after his comeback in DP3, so they can use him to cameo in Avengers Doomsday/Secret Wars if they would like to.
Snipes cameo in D&W shows why Ali's Blade won't work as they intended.
Take Doom for example. Humans do science. Science goes bad. Demons invade. A *random* guy stops them. Can't get much simpler than this. And they've colossally botched it... TWICE.
Sorry, I never watched the Doom movie with the rock, but I remember these scenes being highlighted on TV
Dude is a clown.