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We couldn’t just “make a Blade movie”

Thats all we want Kevin, get him in the leather and start casting goths

That's exactly what they did in the first movie!

Wait, are they stupid?

without the outfit he definitely won't get the PG rating.

Have they even asked Jordan Peele??? Just fucking give it to Jordan Peele and let him do whatever he wants

Glad to hear it 🧛🏿‍♂️🗡️🔫🩸

So…they don’t want Blade to be what Blade has always been. Yeah, that makes so much sense! 🤪

You are right. Poetry is poetry in any format.

Ready for Blade to kill vampires with little to no dialogue 🙋🏾‍♀️

Some top-tier uphill ice-skating by Marvel execs here.

"We don't just want to do the thing literally everyone wants, and also the only thing anyone would want this movie for." I think chatgtp took a shit in these guy's brains.

Trying to shoehorn in continuity.

Blade wears sweaters and watches cop shows.

I mean, sounds like a good starting point...

Counterpoint: please put Mahershala Ali in a leather jacket and have him kill vampires. You can just follow him around with a GoPro. It’s fine. It’ll kick ass.

You know, one of the things I found so refreshing about Superman was that it had superheroes and aliens and robots and flying dogs and kaiju and it felt absolutely zero need to give me a long-winded explanation of how any of it got there. Apropos of nothing.

I think all of the big grand crossover stuff should exist exclusively in the post credit stingers and not even make sense continuity-wise with the rest of the shows. If Moon Knight has to interact with Doctor Strange I want to see it in irrelevant 40 second segments only.

How bout putting him a red trench coat then have him kill vampires and demons????

This is like having rhe perfect recipe and all the best ingredients and then shitting in the mixing bowl

This is literally all I want from it!

The amount of disrespect Blade has gotten when it STARTED the MCU should tell you everything

then why would i watch it?

Because they have never spoken to a woman in their whole lives.

Would you prefer yellow spandex?

I would happily watch Mahershala Ali killing vampires in a freakin' bathrobe, what is the problem here?!

@missbonekitty.bsky.social

"Could we not have him in like, a black and white outfit, as like, an anti-hero or something? One of those Stone Cold Steve Austin type guys?"

This is DCEU-level pants shitting

Nuh, nuh, he needs to time travel and then give a speech about current politics or some shit, or it won't fly in modern times. Or so they think.

You miss all the shots you don’t shoot.

Right? A great actor with tons of charisma dressed in leather, killing vampires. That's it. That's the whole movie. And we'd love it.

Like shit he honestly doesn’t even *need* to be killing vampires cause Blade Classic was still badass as hell killing non-vampire dudes while clad in black leather in Deadpool & Wolverine. But killing vampires just feels right, you know?

Nah

It sounds like Blade had a big role in the whole Kang phase & when that imploded, they threw out their scripts. They can give him his own universe but it sounds like they still want to do Midnight Suns. Might mean getting Isaac back as Moonknight, a new Ghost Rider, etc, so broader than just vamps.

Sigh

All this Will they-won’t they back and forth is really making me lose interest…

"We should have him iceskate uphill. That would be awesome" - an executive.

Y not

"We were worried that the audiences would find this 'fucking sweet' and 'awesome'."

okay but that's pretty much what everyone wanted them to do :/

So we're getting another Marvel fuckup forced on us again?

Still going to be a better movie than Sinners

but that sounds fucking rad

"I won't stop until there ain't no more vampires in the multiverse. Literally all of 'em dead."

THAT’S LITERALLY ALL WE WANT HIM TO DO! IT’S NOT THAT COMPLICATED!

Blade/Moon Knight buddy action comedy.

So its gonna suck then. Heard.

That’s all anybody wanted though…

"We didn't want to simply pay to see that" and to just "have fun while watching a good movie"

surf dracula theory strikes again

but .. but why not

Yeah why on earth would we want something totally awesome like that

have they considered we all would love that, actually

Why not? That's all Blade needs to be, and we'd be happy.

Look, maybe this take isn't popular, but if it's the leather outfit that's holding things up, I'd watch Mahershala Ali playing Blade even if he wore no costume at all.

I'd watch a RoboCop reboot where he shoots bad guys exclusively in the dick.

Titanic reboot stalled: "the boat thing's been done, we're thinking about setting it as a road trip"

Don't tease us with a good time like that

Counterpoint: why the fuck not

I swear to God if you motherf*ckers don't stop iceskating uphill...

wait why not that’s literally the formula Was fucken Stephen dorff not available

But a leather clad vampire killer is what I came to watch 🙁

Ah yes. Don’t make the character everyone knows and love. That’ll bring in the big bucks.

more crossover is More(tm) Interesting(tm)

lol at first i thought "thats the stupidest thing I have read today", but then i remembered that Marvel properties are all under the passionless, conservative MCU-US Air Force brand now and this is exactly how they'd think

The movie should have a story? Hell of a thing to figure out in the middle of production.

Save the artsy approach for the sequel and satiate the deviants

This has to be a joke

Writers clearly don't understand Blade.

…But, why not?

Yeah they said " We couldn't figure out some convoluted ass scheme to tie this movie into the MCU as a whole instead of a badass leather jacket vampire slayer stand alone so we have blackballed it until then" wrong.

Ali is already 51 & they are a minimum of 3 years away from putting out a Blade movie. Once these characters enter the MCU, they are usually there for 10+ years. So, we are gonna have a 65 year old Blade. I'm sure he'd kill it, but maybe it's time to think about recasting with a 30-40 year old actor

That’s what everyone wants though.

All the studio needs to do is watch the intro of the first Blade movie. Reboot that.

That's exactly what they should do! That's what people want from a blade movie, it's not complicated!

bloodlines 2 at least has a high hurdle to clear. what the hell is the problem here, just make a love letter to 90s action films

That's what he does🤷‍♀️

Thats all a blade movie needs to be

But you could’ve, Kevin.

Sir, that’s the whole point

They aren't, it's just that they need to make it corporate synergy bs.

"We don't want Blade to be Blade"

It worked for James Woods

Obligatory.

I think they’re really not getting why we love Blade

"We've decided to redo it as a buddy comedy with Will Ferell and John C. Reilly as long distance truckers. That BLM stuff is so last decade." And we have our new director, too!

As opposed to what, it becoming a rom-com period piece set in the Edwardian era as a comedy of manners? It's about a dude with a sword hacking up vampires. Lean in.

What did Kendrick say again? "F*** being rational, give em what they asked for"?

I want that

@heroesforhire.bsky.social beautiful quote.

The monetary bets I can do on the predictions the critics and audiences will say when this movie comes out. I'd buy Disney myself.

wasn't far from home the epilogue

Thing is that's what they did with the first decade. They were just much better at hiding it.

Not as such; it pulls from a couple of films and series— it’s certainly the most *throughline* the non-Spidey films have had in a while! But it wasn’t straight up Black Widiw 2. The way Civil War was not literally an Iron Man sequel I guess?

Blade was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching vampires just before she died

Ohhh this sounds bad, execs will make it flop