Marvel Studios’ BLADE with Mahershala Ali Announced

[SunZoo]

i like snipes as much as the next dude but man if this is true marvel prob aint want them issues

He went about it the wrong way but he had a right to be upset at them trying to edge him out replace him with Ryan Reynolds.

Funk dat.

 

[SunZoo]

Nah Garfield killed/nailed his role

He nailed Spider-Man for sure, the best version we've gotten in the suit.

He was a shyt Peter Parker though, nikka was too cool for school.

 

[Won Won]

i like snipes as much as the next dude but man if this is true marvel prob aint want them issues

It probably is. Patton Oswalt had some funny stories about that shoot. Snipes burning weed all day in his trailer, communicating via Post-It notes and shyt

 

[jwinfield]

It probably is. Patton Oswalt had some funny stories about that shoot. Snipes burning weed all day in his trailer, communicating via Post-It notes and shyt

Patton Oswalt Has Some Pretty Awesome Wesley Snipes Stories From ‘Blade: Trinity’

Oh, Christ. That was the third Blade movie. And there’s a scene where Blade goes in and confronts this guy for harvesting humans. That scene was supposed to be the whole basis of the film. Blade is fighting for the last shred of humanity. But they thought that it was just so fukking grim, so they decided to just have Blade fighting Dracula. It was just one of those; it was a very troubled production. Wesley [Snipes] was just fukking crazy in a hilarious way. He wouldn’t come out of his trailer, and he would smoke weed all day. Which is fine with me, because I had all these DVDs that I wanted to catch up on. We were in Vancouver, and it was always raining. I kept the door to my trailer open to smell the evening rain while I was watching a movie. Then I remember one day on the set—they let everyone pick their own clothes—there was one black actor who was also kind of a club kid. And he wore this shirt with the word “Garbage” on it in big stylish letters. It was his shirt. And Wesley came down to the set, which he only did for close-ups. Everything else was done by his stand-in. I only did one scene with him. But he comes on and goes, “There’s only one other black guy in the movie, and you make him wear a shirt that says ‘Garbage?’ You racist motherfukker!”

And he tried to strangle the director, David Goyer. So later that night, Ron Perlman was in the city. Everyone who makes movies in Vancouver stays in the same hotel. It’s like an episode of The Love Boat. Every time the elevator stops, you’ve got a different celebrity getting on. Like, [announcer voice] “Hey, now we’ve got Danny Glover!” So we went out that night to some strip club, and we were all drinking. And there were a bunch of bikers there, so David says to them, “I’ll pay for all your drinks if you show up to set tomorrow and pretend to be my security.” Wesley freaked out and went back to his trailer. [Laughs.] And the next day, Wesley sat down with David and was like, “I think you need to quit. You’re detrimental to this movie.” And David was like, “Why don’t you quit? We’ve got all your close-ups, and we could shoot the rest with your stand-in.” And that freaked Wesley out so much that, for the rest of the production, he would only communicate with the director through Post-it notes. And he would sign each Post-it note “From Blade.” [Laughs.]

AVC: There’s a rumor that he tried to stay in character the entire shoot.

PO: Oh yeah, he did. When I met him I was like, “Hi!” And he was like, “I’m Blade.” And also, Natasha Lyonne was on that set, and she was going through some kind of mental breakdown. Wesley is all boundaries, and she has no boundaries. She played a blind computer expert. So the first scene they had together, she put her hand right on his face, and he just recoiled. It was awesome.

AVC: If you were trying to be in character all the time as a vampire killer, being high all the time might not help.

PO: A lot of the lines that Ryan Reynolds has were just a result of Wesley not being there. We would all just think of things for him to say and then cut to Wesley’s face not doing anything because that’s all we could get from him. It was kind of funny. We were like, “What are the worst jokes and puns that we can say to this guy?” And then it would just be his face going, “Mmm.” “Smiles are contagious.” It’s so, so dumb. [Laughs.] That was an example of a very troubled shoot that we made fun. You have to find a way to make it fun.

 

[Ziggiy]

Sure but I would prefer a black director

This is the perfect opportunity for a black director to go to the next stage

Exactly

 

[Achille]

He went about it the wrong way but he had a right to be upset at them trying to edge him out replace him with Ryan Reynolds.

Funk dat.

Plus Snipes was supposed to be a Producer on the film like Blade 1 and 2, but with Blade Tragedy the studio/Goyer didn't let him have his say. Then when the movie didn't do as well as the first two movies. They try to blame Snipes as being a method actor and hard to deal with even though he did the same stuff on the first two movies, but since those movies were good, you didn't hear anything about it. It's funny how Hollywood works.

 

[Northern Son]

It doesn't matter. The Fantastic Four appear in Marvel Comics, not Fox Comics.
Johnny Storm, Wolverine, Spiderman, Daredevil, etc. all have appeared in movies & tv shows that were produced by other studios, but they are still Marvel characters, and still appear in the pages of Marvel Comics.
The actors that I mentioned have all played multiple Marvel characters.

Yeah I know (we all know ). I was referring to the fact that Marvel Studios produced both Luke Cage and the MCU films. The Fox films were LICENSING those characters, the Netflix shows are done by Marvel themselves like the movies so the possibility that they're in the same universe is actually real (this is confirmation that they're not). Imagine if Chris Evans appeared in the upcoming Blade movie as Deacon Frost - it would make no fukking sense since he's canonically Captain America/Steve Rogers in that universe. Very different than him playing Human Torch in a completely unrelated adaptation.

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

I know Norton wanted creative control over the character and script. Whether or not it was shytty is your opinion but it didn’t work out going forward either way because he and the studio couldnt find common ground between his style of acting and their creative vision

what happened was the studio PROMISED Edward Norton a large amount of creative control and then when he got on set that wasn't the case and the movie turned out to be something completely different than what the studio led him to believe, so he was understandably pissed because they had negotiated a deal and they changed it. And forgive me if I'm wrong but didn't Harvey Weinstein produce that movie? Because I'm pretty sure they then spread the rumor that Edward Norton was "difficult" to work with, because I think he confronted Weinstein because he did Salma Hayek dirty.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Yeah I know (we all know ). I was referring to the fact that Marvel Studios produced both Luke Cage and the MCU films. The Fox films were LICENSING those characters, the Netflix shows are done by Marvel themselves like the movies so the possibility that they're in the same universe is actually real (this is confirmation that they're not). Imagine if Chris Evans appeared in the upcoming Blade movie as Deacon Frost - it would make no fukking sense since he's canonically Captain America/Steve Rogers in that universe. Very different than him playing Human Torch in a completely unrelated adaptation.

Nope. It's not that complicated.
Chris Evans played one Marvel character, and now he's playing another. That was all I said.

 

[OmegaK2099]

 

[pete clemenza]

 

[Primetime]

They need Trevonte Rhodes somewhere in the MCU

Dr. Voodoo

Or a young/revamped Blue Marvel.

No more street-mid level black characters. Time to get the high-end/cosmic ones. Monica Rambeau is a great start, and she's even dated Voodoo and Adam in the comics

 

[Lord Beasley]

wesley should be involved in some capacity. as cameo or something....they shouldve adapted this shyt to pay homage to the man who brought super hero movies back from the brink

 

[parallax]

Dr. Voodoo

Or a young/revamped Blue Marvel.

No more street-mid level black characters. Time to get the high-end/cosmic ones. Monica Rambeau is a great start, and she's even dated Voodoo and Adam in the comics

honestly, adding blue marvel also adds his kids, which would be dope, especially since kevin is probably one of the strongest beings in existence

 

[Tetsuo]

i like snipes as much as the next dude but man if this is true marvel prob aint want them issues

David goyer was doing a bunch of fukk shyt that led to Snipes being uncooperative.