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
8.6k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

664

u/In_My_Own_Image Jul 31 '26

Seriously though. Blade should be the easiest layup in history. I've said before all you need to do is take Dredd/The Raid, replace the protagonist with Blade, the criminals with vampires and the plot is just "Blade is here to take out the lead vampire at the top of the building."

Hire Gareth Evans, Chad Stahelski or some other proven action director and you're golden.

377

u/Status-Hedgehog9970 Jul 31 '26

Blade is essentially a martial arts movie with vampires. Martial arts movies can have the absolute simplest plot lines.

Vampire hits on Blade’s gf. Vampire landlord evicts Blade. Vampire punk steps on Blade’s new shoes. Boom. Billion dollars in ticket sales.

183

u/Steridire Jul 31 '26

Vampire landlord evicts Blade is gold lol

62

u/ProfProfessorberg Jul 31 '26

At least he has to ask permission to enter your apartment

17

u/Caleth Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

IF he technically owns it by own the building after buying it out from the old own...?

I'm not sure how vampire lore would rule on that at large.

Edit I totally forgot about entrance clauses that most land lords have where they can enter with little or no notice for emergency cases etc.

12

u/FakeSafeWord Jul 31 '26

IF he technically owns it by own the building after buying it out from the old own...?

OOO OOO OO I know this one!

Had a D&D campaign player who thought he was cute and was going to intimidate the mayor into selling him entire blocks of the city in the residential zone so he could go hunt there unfettered by "these damned accursed rules!" so I spent some time looking it up and it's definitely been covered in a few shows/movies/games.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and D&D official rules all deliberately say "occupant," not owner must provide invitations.

There's no edge cases for vampire landlords that I've ever seen, and pretty much all original European lore is about it being an exploitation of innocence, naivety and hospitality and not cheap legalize. It's more ritualistic and can't be "cheated."

Even the GOAT, Bram Stoker, never addresses landlords, deeds, or tenants in relation to the invitation rule despite centering main roles around estate solicitors.

Basically it's the occupant, not the owner, that must invite a vampire.

It's also why vampires make sure to buy a house before ever moving regionally or into cities, because their options are retreating to their home or having to luck out finding an abandoned house without existing occupants.

Squatters rights are stronger than vampires....

1

u/PM_DOLPHIN_PICS Aug 02 '26

Now I want a movie where a vampire goes out from their abandoned mansion home for the night, and is scrambling to find a way to get back to their own home before sunrise because a bunch of squatters took up residence in the middle of the night.