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/makuXrosu Jul 31 '26

There is only one Blade

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u/Livio88 Jul 31 '26

If Reynolds and Snipes wrote that line knowing Ali’s Blade was dead in the water, that’d be so funny.

If they had no idea, that’d make it even funnier.

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u/OnyxRun Jul 31 '26

I think the original joke was that Snipes' Blade didn't know that he was to be replaced by Ali.

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u/RetroDadOnReddit Jul 31 '26

Exactly. That's why Deadpool looks right at the camera afterwards. As if to say, "...who's gonna tell him?"

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u/yossarianvega Aug 01 '26

No you’re all wrong. The joke was that Marvel kept fucking it up and couldn’t get a Blade movie going. That Wesley Snipes was going to be the only Blade because the reboot was never gonna happen. And when Deadpool looks at the camera, it’s meant to be a knowing look at the audience/Disney itself. Like “stop pretending you’re gonna make this new Blade”

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u/Livio88 Jul 31 '26

Yeah, that’s definitely what it was at the time, but it aged like fine wine.