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They couldn't make a Blade movie because they couldn't force it into the MCU the way they wanted. Nothing else makes sense for how much of a failure it has been trying to make it.

 

Now I’m mad that we were denied a Flying Lotus score that would’ve objectively been cool as shit

 

I read and listening to interviews from various cast members who were involved and they mentioned that sets were built and everything, Mia Goth had make up and costume tests and were weeks away from filming and it got shut down all of a sudden.. I can't even imagine how many millions of dollars were spend just on the development alone... Hopefully one day a documentary about this whole debacle will get made

 

I cannot imagine Ali would have stayed on for this long if he weren't somewhat responsible for what's happening, since he was the one who wanted to do this film in the first place.

Or, conversely, they decided not to do his take and now he's locked in a contract he can't get out of?

Who the fuck knows, is what I'm saying.

 

It seems like Marvel is pretty good at cranking out not so great movies with difficult personalities involved. Blade being stuck in development for years and years doesn’t make sense, so my instinct is that the reason is a dumb arbitrary reason that is not based on poor quality of the script or a difficult leading star.

 

I’ve heard that Ali was given the right to approve the script and director, and he wanted it to be perfect. Sometimes his vision and the script/director didn’t match.

But all I have to back that up is hearsay, so

 

Oh well. At least we have Wesley snipes Blade in the MCU.

 

Midway through rewatching Daredevil Season 3, and it's still so fucking good.

One thing really on my mind is how much I like the way they portray Bullseye, as someone who very clearly has things wrong with him and he did/does terrible things, but he's also suffering from his condition, he's as much a victim of Kingpin's machinations as anyone else, and you can kind of see where he might not have ended up as he was if some things had been different.

Maybe he'd be a ticking time bomb regardless, but I like that the show remembers that at the end of the day he's a human being too, and seeing his internal struggle, especially his desperation for something to keep him balanced, I empathize with him.

That's something I've liked across the Netflix shows. Many of the characters in the comics are card-carrying one-note villains, but here characters like Bullseye, Jigsaw, Cottonmouth, they're given layers and made more complex and three-dimensional.

 

Saving Blade for Midnight Sons is stupid imo

 

I honestly don’t know if Midnight Suns is still a priority at Marvel.

Champions/Young Avengers at least have writers and buildup in other projects.

The last time we heard anbout any potential Midnight Suns members was WBN. Absolutely nothing about writers, showrunners, etc.

 

We’ll finally get Ali’s Blade

 

Finished rewatching Daredevil Season 3 and goddamn that last conversation between Matt and Fisk is so satisfying. "I BEAT YOU."

 

The whole time rewatching it I was waiting for that lol.

still only 1 episode into Born Again, got distracted rewatching The Last Of Us

 

That's okay, The Last of Us is significantly better than Born Again lol

 

But still!

 

Wonder if this will be a prequel? Or just a comic version of the movie?

 

Neither, technically. It's not an adaptation of the film, but it's supposed to be a comic of the team from the world of the film. Like basically it's a comic that you would be able to buy about them if you lived in their universe.

Confusing, I'm sure.

 

Something that is increasingly bothering me is that Marvel set aside dates in February and November of next year for film projects and clearly they're going to cancel them, but they haven't yet, and I'm wondering why.

There's no possible way they have some secret unannounced project that's still releasing in February. I guess I'm wondering what it would have been, and if there's still intent to release anything besides Doomsday and Secret Wars in Phase 6 other than F4 and BND.

 

I would bet phase 6 is only

films: F4, Doomsday, BND, Secret Wars
shows: Wonderman, Born Again S2, Vision, Punisher

Hawkeye S2 or Champions would be my only guesses for shows we might get that have yet to be officially mentioned by Marvel.

Maybe we’ll get a surprise at SDCC and Marvel will announce production of a film that releases in late ‘26/early ‘27, but we’ll probably get writer/director/pre-production leaks before that

I still see some WWH believers clinging to that idea. Kinda feel bad for them

 

Well, all the grifters leakers keep mentioning it being a thing, so who the hell knows.

But it's weird to me that Marvel announced a February drop date for something when they clearly didn't have a project to fill that void. Kind of wonder why. Did they really think they'd have something ready?

 

BP3 maybe?

 

This would make sense with the February date, but I can't imagine Marvel didn't know Coogler would be tied up when they announced that date, so I dunno, seems really kind of like they pledged a date first without considering what would be ready for it, which doesn't sound like how they operate, does it?

Heh. Wouldn't it be funny if Blade was actually fine all this time and all the talk of troubled production was just a smokescreen so they could drop it out of nowhere and take people by surprise? That would be cool.