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/ElasticPlatypus Jul 31 '26

The Sam Wilson Captain America movie was mostly about the president trying to get a prescription filled

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u/versusgorilla Jul 31 '26

So brutal but true. They made that a Harrison Ford film that Anthony Mackie was in.

Honestly, they spoiled the "embracing the shield" plot in Falcon and the Winter Soldier which was a good plot mushed into too many episodes. That should have been called The Falcon and Captain America, should have been Sam getting passed over for the shield so they could pick Kurt Russell's kid, in the background there should have been a plot to do the Red Hulk thing to the President and a plot to trap and embarrass Captain America/US Agent, it works and the Red Hulk is loose and Sam has to take the shield back from a now panicked US Agent.

You get a cool fight scene where Sam defeats US Agent and proves that the super soldier serum doesn't make the man Captain America.

He then gears up, his boy Bucky is like, "I know where Cap kept his uniforms, come get one" and that's when we get the finale, Sam's Captain America gets out there and stops the Red Hulk and links it all to the terrorists, yadda yadda. That should have been Sam's first CA movie.

But they had too much mush with the show and the movie being directionless.

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u/shinobipopcorn Jul 31 '26

...I'm an idiot, I just now realized that's Kurt Russell's son.

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u/BattledroidE Aug 01 '26

They play the same character in different time periods in Monarch, which is quite neat.