>Set in 1920s New Orleans.>Main plot was Blade protecting his estranged daughter Zora from vampire lord Aaron Thorne, who wants to use Zora’s blood to turn himself and his followers into Daywalkers.>Milan Ray was cast as Zora.>Aaron Pierre was cast as Aaron Thorne.>Delroy Lindo was cast as a “Marcus Garvey-like” black community leader and Blade’s mentor.>Joshua Mikel was cast as one of Aaron Thorne’s vampire followers.>Vampire hunters Quincy Harker, Rachel Van Helsing and Taj Nital were set to appear but hadn’t been cast yet.>Quincy is a descendant of Jonathan Harker who finances vampire hunters including Rachel, a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing. Nital is an Indian who took an oath of silence until the vampire who murdered his family is slain.>A major setpiece involved vampires attacking a train Blade and Zora are traveling in.>Mahershala Ali reportedly wanted Blade to be “as big as Black Panther” and have a strong cultural message.>Kevin Feige reportedly scrapped the script for having too much drama and not enough action, while Ali pushed for a more experienced director, sending the project back to the drawing board.The first version that came closest to happening, anyway.
>Black Panther but worseNo thanks.
>>150113765Is it officially scrapped now?
>>150113765This mothafucka still tryin ice skate up hill.
>>150114846Still in development but reportedly not a priority. Current draft is being worked on by one of the writers of Thunderbolts and FF.
>1920's muh racist whitey browbeating shitgood fucking riddance LMAO
>>150115350What the hell is keeping them?
>>150113765Didn't the costumes for this shit get recycled for Sinners?
>>150116459Yep, Ryan Coogler confirmed it
White people love bbc
>>150116231Doomsday/Secret Wars is a higher priority.
No utilization of Elsa Bloodstone?
>>150117583No crackers allowed.
>>150113765Feel like it would e turned into a Jefferson Tiwlight movie but unironic
>>150116459That's funny.
I do honestly wonder why Blade just fucking fell off Disney's Marvel's radarHe was one of the more well known black heroes back in the day, he got parodied for years when anything vampire related is brought up, I remember he showed up in the 90's Spider-man show where he looked ambiguously brown than black. Is he just too edgy for them?
>>150117837I think it's the fact that Blade is far too connected to Wesley Snipes coupled with the fact that Snipes was unavailable due to being in prison.
>>150113765>>Main plot was Blade protecting his estranged daughter Zora from vampire lord Aaron Thorne, who wants to use Zora’s blood to turn himself and his followers into Daywalkers.Silly bad-guy, if you want to be a daywalker you need to steal the melanin from black vampires.
>>150117583Already in the MCU.
>>150113765Making Blade's race a plot point reduces him to his skin color.
>>150117741It seems like the vampires were going to be white judging by the casting
>>150117952Awful
It blows my mind that people get paid for over five fucking years to write endless variations of "Blade sucks and is replaced by a woman."
>>150113765You forgot the part where there were only two fight scenes in the entire script. But that's what you get hiring a woman whose only credit of noted was the Watchmen TV series and that turned out so well...
>>150113765I will never understand these threads.
>>150118055They know, he’s always just been the BLACK vampire hunter to them.
>>150117837I feel like they straight up forgot Blade was a Marvel character for awhile.Which is pretty funny when you think about it, Blade kind of kicked off the Marvel movies obsession, after his film came Raimi's Spidey and then the X-men until eventually the MCU started shaping up.
>>150113765>In October 2022, Blade had its release date pushed back to the September 2024 slot, due to production-related issues, and Marvel Studios pushed back Deadpool & Wolverine to November 8, 2024, as a result.[45] In December, Echo head writer Marion Dayre said the series would be delayed to late 2023, around that December.[46] In early February 2023, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that the company would be re-evaluating the volume of content it output as a way to cut costs over the next few years.[47][48]
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>>150117837They keep trying to replace him with a teen girl.
>>150117837They probably wouldn't have even touch him if it wasn't for Mahershala Ali. Last years it was revealed it's his vanity project, and he was the one o pitch it to the studio.
>>150118113>Aaron Pierre was cast as Aaron Thorne.Yeah, look at this cracker.
>>150121735>Aaron playing AaronWho writes this shit
>>150121735this dude looks like a cartoon character put through an AI realism filter.
>>150121735Damn, this nigga looking straight zesty. He even glued another nigga’s pubes to his face
>>150116554The director should have called someone from Marvel when filming wrapped up and said "Hey thanks for lending us the costumes. We finished filming our vampire movie. It was really really easy."
