The original script by Stacy Osei-Kuffour was set in 1920s New Orleans and featured Blade joining forces with vampire hunters Nora Helsing, Taj Nital and Quincy Harker to rescue his young daughter Zora from a vampire cult led by Deacon Frost and Karl Von Stadt, who want to use Zora’s blood to turn themselves into Daywalkers like Blade. It was PG-13, the focus was on Blade and the hunters navigating the vampire underworld in search of Zora, and the final battle at the cult’s compound was the only major action setpiece.
Bassan Tariq was set to direct and revised the script with Beau DeMayo. Marvel cast Milan Ray as Zora, Delroy Lindo as Deacon Frost, Aaron Pierre as Karl Von Stadt, and Joshua Mikel as Leon, Blade’s vampire informant. They were already casting for Helsing and Nital, and eyeing A-listers such as Christoph Waltz and Hugh Grant for Harker when Tariq was fired due to creative conflicts with Mahershala Ali, who did not like the script and Tariq’s vision for the character as an older, jaded veteran.
Marvel hired Michael Starrbury to write the latest script, which is still set in 1920s New Orleans, but eliminated the supporting cast and reimagined Zora as a human teenage runaway whom Blade rescues and protects. Frost is now the leader of a cult who worships Lilith, the mother of demons, plans to revive her so vampires can rule the world, and Blade and Zora must stop him. Lilith wields the Ebony Blade, a cursed weapon which ties into Blade’s cameo in the post-credits scene of Eternals.
Supporting characters include Blade’s lover Saffron Caulder, his mentor Jamal Afari, their associate Madame Vanity, occult researcher John Carik, vampire lord Solomon Negus, and English nobleman Nathan Garrett, an ancestor of Kit Harington’s character Dane Whitman. Yann Demange was hired to direct, and Mia Goth was cast as Lilith, Saul Williams as Afari, and Cynthia Erivo was fielding an offer for Saffron before the project was paused due to creative conflicts between Marvel and Ali, who is pushing for an R rating.
Recent changes in Marvel’s plans to expand on their supernatural corner have made them more receptive to the idea of an R-rated movie, and Ali’s frequent collaborator Nic Pizzolato has recently been hired to revise the script to Ali’s expectations. Due to the strikes, the movie will not meet its intended February 2025 release date, and the current plan should the strikes be settled by January is to start filming in early 2024 for a late 2025 release, probably near Halloween.
This sounds like a flop waiting to happen.
>Blade
>Just 1 big fighting scene
Seems so anon.
looks like Ali is determined to bitch about the movie until Marvel gets it right. I'm optimistic on this one. Not about the b.o. numbers, but about the quality.
Dumbass or shill. Either way I don't even feel bad for you at this point.
who hurt you? you didn't get your tendies? did mommy finally throw you out?
>shill shill shill shill. shill
get your meds chud, trump lost, the vaxx is safe, and you are miserable because you are worthless, not because you are too smart and the cia follows you to make your life misery
why do they want it set in the 1920s so bad?
so they can have a scene where Blade refuses to sit at the back of the bus or something
Setting it in the 1920s and in New Orleans just makes me feel like someone involved is just a huge Anne Rice fan & has no other knowledge about vampires or blade
So, a woman or a fag.
>why
>we need the supernatural audience, but Jared and Jensen said no
I wish more vampire/werewolf shit was set prior to the 20th century. Underworld Rise of The Lycans was kino
>and English nobleman Nathan Garrett, an ancestor of Kit Harington’s character Dane Whitman
it'd be cool if he were played by kit as well
>Solomon Negus
How do you spell this?
Solomon knee-gas
I thought it said Negrus..
Releasing it around Halloween semi-independently of the MCU is a good idea.
why is he wearing Daredevil's shades?
Deywalkers?
>Nora Helsing = black
>Van Helsing = white (Hugh Grant)
They probably wouldn't even have bothered to explain why either. And if you ask, that makes you a chud.
Deacon Frost is now black as well, hence the secondary white villain who will do the evil stuff and take the fall.
All of which is insane because the OG Blade films had ZERO racial politics outside of vampires vs humans. Luckily, a new Blade film will never see the light of day (no pun intended).
There is nothing about Nora Helsing being black.
Hugh Grant was up for Quincy Harker, not Van Helsing.
Both villains named in the OP were played by black actors.
>There is nothing about Nora Helsing being black.
If this is what passes for white, then society is truly DOOMED
I mean, just look at all those names, it reads like a North Africa phonebook
>Jamal Jafari
>Taj Nital
>Saffron Caulder
>Marshalla Tariq
>Solomon Negus
Come on dude. We fucking hate your kind and what you've done to capeshit. I just wish you felt any kind of shame for stealing something that's not yours.
That's the girl who was going to play Blade's daughter, retard.
They'll never surpass Dorff Frost.
Fucking A.
most handsome manlet ever
It seems like they are ice skating uphill with this film.
>Quick rundown on Marvel's Blade production problems
1. Disney is in control of the MCU.
Day walk now?
this is doomed simply for the fact it's a fucking BLADE movie with, pun fully intended, no teeth. doesn't blade 1 open up like less than 5 minutes in with a literal dance in raining blood, borderlining on an orgy, that blade crashes by... massacring everybody inside? this goofball nagger from the WORST SEASON of true detective by overwhelmingly exponential margins has zero sting or grit. this is going to be boring, bloodless, board friendly capeshit headlined by some house nagger cloned up directly from disney to play the role of "cool but tough but family value oriented black guy." he's better left as the deputized former slave in a crisis in some shit western genre bender or the "guy who just wants to be safe with his family" in some shit C-grade apocalypse movie, not BLADE.
Accurate
This is all true.
Lol, They shoulda got the guy that played black Wesker in the Resident Evil show. But he died of suddenly. 🙁
Blade then was obviously for adults.
Current Marvel movies are for liberal women and manchildren.
Sounds like garbage. Why couldn't they get a tougher looking actor for blade anyways?
Ali is already like 100 years old
>cast a nagger to play deacon frost
marvel couldn't help but fuck this up all to hell huh?
>Bassan Tariq
>bussy Tariq
>Tariq Nasheed
>Tariq bussy
There’s something here. We need to dig deeper.
Sorry, but there will only ever be one Blade. They shouldn't even bother recasting him.
But I guess some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill.
>Wesley Snipes was 35 when Blade was filming
>Mahershala Ali will be 50 if and when the strike ends and filming finally starts
what the fuck were they thinking? are there no young black action stars?
>what the fuck were they thinking?
Rumors say that Blade is not what they offered to him but he wanted to do that, yes he is hired because Green Book, the movie is carried completly by Vigo Mortensen but he won the Oscar
sure, but why Blade even if it's what he wanted?
>RDJ was 43 for Iron Man
>Chris Evans was 30 for Captain America
>Chris Hemsworth was 27 for Thor
I know black don't crack, but physically he won't be able to do the stuff that Wesley Snipes did even now, nevermind in 5 years by the time Blade 2 is filmed.
>physically
It is fucking Disney man, the movie will be a cgi shitfest.
Liberals will never get their Blade film. And say good bye to Shang Chink and The Eternals. Sorry, not sorry. Ya lost!
Literally just do Dredd or The Raid but with vampires. It's not rocket science.
They should've brought back based Wesley Snipes instead of casting this literal nagger homosexual.
Why didn't he just pay his taxes?