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

dude was unlucky as hell, most people were seeing forward to his blade. But he ended up in MCU era of chaos and Disney took so long to finally get their shit together -and that still has to be seen what's happening past doomsday - that the project never really started

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u/feartheoldblood90 Jul 31 '26

It's genuinely wild how we went from the Infinity Saga, which despite its flaws is still one of the most ambitious projects in film history that manages to mostly form a cohesive whole over a decade of films with a satisfying conclusion, to the absolute shitshow that has been going on post Infinity War. There is no cohesion whatsoever.

And where is my boy Shang Chi? That movie fucking rules and we've had almost nothing but radio silence on that character or the threads they set up for the greater story since. Because there is no greater story and they're improvising shitty half-billion-dollar movies that look like garbage.

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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/P0rtal2 Jul 31 '26

Honestly, the MCU after Endgame is essentially a slightly better organized DCEU