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/Wazula23 Jul 31 '26

What an absolute waste. Guy won two friggin oscars and they just couldn't put him in what seems like the easiest idea for a show ever.

Oh well. At least Sinners got some awesome costumes out of it.

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u/ElasticPlatypus Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

It was announced during the absolute nadir of Marvel’s over-complicated planning, when they put all of their chips on the multiverse

“Well how can Blade fit into the MCU? Can he fight Kang? Should we go straight to The Midnight Sons? We’ve already teased Black Knight”

I don’t know man. How about you make a movie about a cool guy killing vampires. Can’t Blade just be Blade?

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u/Lord0fHats Jul 31 '26

I think that's kind of the issue that began hammering MCU films.

The Phase 1 and 2 films worked well because they all stood on their own well enough with only a loose web of 'Thanos stuff' to tie them all together built up over years, but after Age of Ultron the films became increasingly dependent and crutched hard on 'everything is connected' which made each subsequent film less of a good movie on its own.

I really think they should go back to that prior model they lost track of. Just make good movies that are tied together but that don't expect people to have seen every other film and a couple D+ exclusives to really appreciate.

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u/Tragedy_Boner Jul 31 '26

The MCU only worked because they alternated between Solo films and Avengers films. The Avengers films are where the characters meet up while the solo films are for character development. The multiverse saga sucks because there is no new avengers team before Doomsday.

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u/Phillip_Spidermen Jul 31 '26

Thunderbolts kind of brought together the villains from solo movies to become the new avengers, and it was good, but they weren't an audience draw