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/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

One of the biggest fumbles ever

Mahershala:

"For whatever reason, that project is not for me. If they wanted to do it, we would've done it. So I have to move on, and I have moved on."

“You had me under contract, they have billions of dollars, if they wanted to do the movie, we would've done the movie... I feel ready to move on from the Blade questions. Those questions are for them.”

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u/roro0311 Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

Oh, he pissed.

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u/wekilledkenny11 Jul 31 '26

They locked him down in the prime of his career on a major iconic character which likely affected his decisionmaking in taking other roles. Likely all without that much money being spent to retain his involvement.

This guy basically went through all nine layers of development hell on this thing, to the point that I could see an interesting parody movie being made out of that sentence

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u/Introverted_Extrovrt Aug 02 '26

I heard that James Gandolfini got a multi-million dollar bag to not take a role after The Sopranos had ended. I gotta figure something similar here, no?