Marvel Studios’ BLADE with Mahershala Ali Announced
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FromStLouis
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That's your best shot at an MCU role Trevante Rhodes. Lucas Bishop. Let us put this ridiculous Blade nonsense to bed.
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It's not far fetched at all to think Ali may say "fukk it" and walk or Marvel decides to put this bad boy completely on ice for a year or two and recast. My man likely turned roles down and cleared his schedule for this chaos. Perfect time for this movie was between last summer and this Halloween.
And we knew filming this October/November was B.S. Not one clue or link dropped saying another cast member, villain or plot was there. Hell we knew Cox was in Spider-Man 3 for a whole year in advance.. Ditto with Majors as Kang. Blade has been straight crickets since SUMMER OF 2019!!!
You think the negelct is bad now.... wait until they're in full-blown X-men/FF mode. That's not even including Silver Surfer, Galactus or Doom. Shyts gonna be Nick Fury Hasselhoff status.
This shyt needs a total exorcism.
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Snipes actually looked like Blade though, so that can be forgiven.
Rhodes doesn't look like Blade. At all.
He'd actually make a dope Beast if I wanted to get daring.
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Snipes looked Iike this man?
Ali is like 47 and at the pace of this flick and its release date will be damn near 50. That means he's got like 2-3 flicks tops not to mention I haven't heard he's a skilled marital artist. When Blade dropped Wesley was like 33-35. Which tells you they're gonna wash their hands with Blade.
Rhodes is younger and (pause) more built. It's not like you need to win a damn oscar in acting to play Blade.
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Snipes looked Iike this man?
Ali is like 47 and at the pace of this flick and its release date will be damn near 50. That means he's got like 2-3 flicks tops not to mention I haven't heard he's a skilled marital artist. When Blade dropped Wesley was like 33-35. Which tells you they're gonna wash their hands with Blade.
Rhodes is younger and (pause) more built. It's not like you need to win a damn oscar in acting to play Blade.
@ Bad faith arguments about how Blade looks.I'm done here. I never advocated for keeping Ali in the role, it's his call entirely. I'm just saying if he dropped out, Rhodes is not the right guy to replace him.
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I'm done here. I never advocated for keeping Ali in the role, it's his call entirely. I'm just saying if he dropped out, Rhodes is not the right guy to replace him.
A Black, decent actor who looks like he can competently handle action scenes and looks like he's lifted a weight and took fight scenes seriously.
Who do you have in mind if it wasn't Ali?
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Huh lol?
After Wesley played Blade almost every version of Blade was modeled after him lol
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So he's the definitive Blade that pop culture has come to know and embrace?
I can't think of a good reason to stray from that.
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Scrap it and make it a TV series at this point. That there were no other major casting announcements a month before filming says this film has been on the back burner for Disney for quite sometime. Cox and Majors were confirmed long before their appareances (or strongly hinted to) and there was buzz, rumors and Disney clearly gave a fukk. Blade has been totally neglected. By the time this drops no one will give a shyt- they'll be waiting on X-men, FF, Galactus, Silver Surfer etc. The perfect time was BEFORE those were gonna dominate the screen. Not sandwiched between.
How a script needs to be done from scratch with a movie that's been greenlit since 2019 is a total joke.
Ali will be damn near 50 when this joint drops.
How a script needs to be done from scratch with a movie that's been greenlit since 2019 is a total joke.
Ali will be damn near 50 when this joint drops.
The Main Event, Frost vs Blade. Martial arts. Spinning Kicks. Slicing and dicing swordplay. Capoeira. No headbutts or bodyslams. No one would confuse Blade for a bruiser. He's not gonna match strength and power with the Hulk or some shyt.
A few headbutts for Nomak in the final fight.
Why would he ever be an A-List character? He's a niche character from get-go. They've also tried pushing him in the comics - putting him on hella teams...just as many as Wolverine, and he's been an Avenger for like 3 years now.
At the time of the movie, Wesley looked enough like Blade - square-face, high-top fade, sword-wielding. Hell, you could say that his 90s redesigned was to mimic Wesley who was near the top of the game charismatic kick-a$$ action star wise. The only thing the movie really added to the 616 version was the hair designs and/or head tatsSnipes looked Iike this man?
Ali is like 47 and at the pace of this flick and its release date will be damn near 50. That means he's got like 2-3 flicks tops not to mention I haven't heard he's a skilled marital artist. When Blade dropped Wesley was like 33-35. Which tells you they're gonna wash their hands with Blade.
Rhodes is younger and (pause) more built. It's not like you need to win a damn oscar in acting to play Blade.