Marvel Studios’ BLADE with Mahershala Ali Announced

[FunkDoc1112]

This some @Neo The Resurrected ONE level lying, trolling, and mix information spreading to poison the pot


Calling CAP

Denial is ugly breh

 

[FunkDoc1112]

I still say it was Black people's fault that Black Panther wasn't recasted.

Folks took it too far, actually forming a mini civil rights movement around the movie and crying real tears like we had made it to the promised land just cause a movie was made based on a character that a white man created.

And yeah yeah, I loved the movie too, and I love positive representation of us. But that still doesn't negate the fact that folks took it too far.

Even Chadwick was uncomfortable with it. Folks was walking up to him talking about "my king" and bowing and they was dead serious. I saw one video where breh was like

There was no way Marvel was gonna win the recast saga. If they didn't recast him, folks was gonna be mad. If they did recast him, folks was gonna be mad. It was literally a lose-lose situation. If you think that the think-pieces surrounding them NOT recasting were something, the think pieces about the "erasure of black bodies" and how "all black men look alike to Disney" would have been crazy if they had recasted

I think not recasting him was a good call. Like you said, it blew up into such a big thing, Chadwick was the face of it, and then he passed tragically. Too many emotions at play to put a new person in the role and proceed business as usual, because with the circumstances in which he was thrust in the role it's impossible to leave the shadow of Chadwick.

 

[steadyrighteous]

What is there to understand about Blade that he appears to be missing?

I was responding to the tweets in the above post, but honestly I regret even jumping into this thread.

I forgot that a lot of people care more about this shyt than I do.

My bad y'all.

 

[O.Red]

I think not recasting him was a good call. Like you said, it blew up into such a big thing, Chadwick was the face of it, and then he passed tragically. Too many emotions at play to put a new person in the role and proceed business as usual, because with the circumstances in which he was thrust in the role it's impossible to leave the shadow of Chadwick.

It's not impossible, that belief is part of the problem

They have a new Batman every 3 years Dead actors get recast all the time

Boseman's passing is definitely sad, and I wouldn't take that sadness from anyone, but black folks definitely put Feige between a rock and a hard place with the threat of a riot if T'Challa was recast

And what's the alternative? A boy who's a literal prince being raised in secrecy by his mama in Haiti think of how infuriating that shyt would be to find out as an adult that you've always been a king raising me in these fukkin slums

 

[Trapperman Dave]

Denial is ugly breh

Marvel can do no wrong but im just the messenger

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

You serious?

Dead serious.

 

[TDT]

Bruh is blackballed

Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds better UN-blackball Wesley for a cameo in Deadpool 3

 

[Achille]

Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds better UN-blackball Wesley for a cameo in Deadpool 3

For years, Marvel and Snipes were in talks for him to reprise his role with Blade. It never happened because Marvel's Kevin Feige didn't want him back and was giving Snipes the run-around. See, Kevin Feige didn't become a producer of the Blade movies until Blade Tragedy. So you know Wesley took the fall since the film didn't do what the Studio wanted it to do to attract that new, younger crowd with Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel. They tried to blame Snipes for being a method actor and staying in character, which he's always done since the first movie, but since the first two movies were successful, you didn't know much about that. Snipes got blackballed, while Goyer and Reynolds's careers excelled.

Then Feige got contacted by Ali to do a reboot for Blade, and he agreed since Ali is a 2-time Oscar winner. Then Disney bought Fox and saw that Deadpool was a successful franchise that could continue to go with. Additionally, Ryan Reynolds said he would never want to work with Snipes again.

 

[Ain't That Something]

It's not impossible, that belief is part of the problem

They have a new Batman every 3 years Dead actors get recast all the time

Boseman's passing is definitely sad, and I wouldn't take that sadness from anyone, but black folks definitely put Feige between a rock and a hard place with the threat of a riot if T'Challa was recast

And what's the alternative? A boy who's a literal prince being raised in secrecy by his mama in Haiti think of how infuriating that shyt would be to find out as an adult that you've always been a king raising me in these fukkin slums

As a breh from Haiti even I would be heated.

Everyday after I found out I'd be looking at my mama with the scust face

 

[FunkDoc1112]

It's not impossible, that belief is part of the problem

They have a new Batman every 3 years Dead actors get recast all the time

Boseman's passing is definitely sad, and I wouldn't take that sadness from anyone, but black folks definitely put Feige between a rock and a hard place with the threat of a riot if T'Challa was recast

And what's the alternative? A boy who's a literal prince being raised in secrecy by his mama in Haiti think of how infuriating that shyt would be to find out as an adult that you've always been a king raising me in these fukkin slums

The man was the face of the biggest black movie ever that was beloved across the entire diaspora and then died suddenly in the middle of one of the most tumultuous years in history WHILE folks were out in the streets protesting black death worldwide. When he died, people were saying Wakanda Forever like T'Challa himself died. And then you have the cast and crew also dealing with the anchor of the whole fukking movie and a friend passing too? Cmon man

You CANNOT make a simple apples to apples comparison for this. To do so erases all of what that iteration of the character meant. Real life don't give a fuk about your characters, sometimes shyt happens that you can't just put a bandaid on

 

[Jaguar93]

It's not impossible, that belief is part of the problem

They have a new Batman every 3 years Dead actors get recast all the time

Boseman's passing is definitely sad, and I wouldn't take that sadness from anyone, but black folks definitely put Feige between a rock and a hard place with the threat of a riot if T'Challa was recast

And what's the alternative? A boy who's a literal prince being raised in secrecy by his mama in Haiti think of how infuriating that shyt would be to find out as an adult that you've always been a king raising me in these fukkin slums

shyts crazy bruh

 

[010101]

bro already showed the world he had the image

his role in alita visually was exactly what blade would call for

the studio ain't fukking with him it seems who can say why¿.........

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[jwinfield]

Aldis Hodge would've gotten death threats if Feige introduced him at Comic Con as the new TChalla and said the sequel was coming out early 2021.

 

[jdubnyce]

Phase 8 lead
Old Man Blade

 

[Marks]

bro already showed the world he had the image

his role in alita visually was exactly what blade would call for

the studio ain't fukking with him it seems who can say why¿.........

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