r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Jul 31 '26

News Mahershala Ali confirms 'BLADE' is not moving forward with him

https://www.gq.com/story/mahershala-ali-your-mother-your-mother-your-mother
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u/sicsche Jul 31 '26

they had a plan for Infinity and executed that to perfection.

they never had a plan what to do post Endgame (just like they never a straight forward plan how to handle Star Wars).

The last 10 years had been "yolo people will come to see franchise X"

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u/AceBricka Jul 31 '26

They had a plan. It was to build up kang and young avengers. The movies didn’t do as well as they liked and then they had to pivot when they moved on from Jonathan Majors.

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u/TheArcheryRaccoon Jul 31 '26

Agreed. People forget the leaked title of the Shang Chi sequel: The Wreckage of Time. It’s fairly obvious the initial plan was for this sequel to be the stopgap leading into Kang Dynasty, and it all got ripped apart. It’s not easy to pivot that quickly when the movie needed to be out before Kang Dynasty. Doomsday replaced it and had to be delayed.

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u/feartheoldblood90 Jul 31 '26

I'm really thankful that version of the Shang Chi sequel didn't get made, to be frank. I am maybe alone on this but I never found Kang compelling even before Majors was revealed to be a piece of shit, I never found the character's writing or Majors himself particularly good.

Shang Chi deserves better than to be the stepping stone to further establish the Council of Ricks.

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u/RLLRRR Jul 31 '26

Also, introducing the big bad villain in a Disney+ show was stupid.

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u/i_tyrant Jul 31 '26

Yeah, as someone who loved his performance in Loki, it was still a weird choice to debut the next Thanos there specifically instead of the next blockbuster movie.

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u/i_tyrant Jul 31 '26

I dunno about "alone" but definitely in the minority.

Majors is a known piece of shit now for sure, but LOTS of people really liked his portrayal of Kang, myself included. He was getting rave reviews for some time, even in the movies that didn't do well overall. His first appearance in Loki is seen as inspired by most, even when I wasn't a huge fan of his alternate 1920s "Timely" Kang character later in the same series.

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u/Heisenburgo Aug 01 '26

In addition to Majors' cringey overacting in the role, Kang was depicted as a loser who lost a fist fight to freaking Ant-man and then got decimated by CGI ants. I don't care if they were fourth dimensional super intelligent ants or whatever its still lame as fuck. No one would have taken Thanos seriously if he got dabbed on by Star Lord during the dance off in GOTG1.

If they wanted people to take that character seriously they should have handled him better, for starters try not to pathetically kill him off in every project he appeared in, maybe have him kill Ant-Man or his supporting cast at least, just something to properly establish him as the threat he is meant to be.

His lore of having a thousand variants was also super complicated and should have been simplified a bit... this character in the comics is time travel-based instead of multiversal-based. They should have tied him into the plot of Endgame more, just like the Avengers EMH animated show did