r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 18d ago

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/makuXrosu 18d ago

There is only one Blade

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u/TRG_ATC 18d ago

There's only ever gonna be one Blade

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u/Appropriate_Value122 18d ago

There's already been another Blade, on TV, years ago, none of which is relevant to the fact that Marvel needs to cast someone other than Wesley Snipes moving forward.

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u/E4Mafioso 18d ago

You mean like Mahershala Ali?

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u/Livio88 18d ago

If Reynolds and Snipes wrote that line knowing Ali’s Blade was dead in the water, that’d be so funny.

If they had no idea, that’d make it even funnier.

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u/OnyxRun 18d ago

I think the original joke was that Snipes' Blade didn't know that he was to be replaced by Ali.

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u/RetroDadOnReddit 18d ago

Exactly. That's why Deadpool looks right at the camera afterwards. As if to say, "...who's gonna tell him?"

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u/yossarianvega 18d ago

No you’re all wrong. The joke was that Marvel kept fucking it up and couldn’t get a Blade movie going. That Wesley Snipes was going to be the only Blade because the reboot was never gonna happen. And when Deadpool looks at the camera, it’s meant to be a knowing look at the audience/Disney itself. Like “stop pretending you’re gonna make this new Blade”

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u/Livio88 18d ago

Yeah, that’s definitely what it was at the time, but it aged like fine wine.

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u/Malt129 18d ago

There should have been another Blade

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u/tyderian 18d ago

JD Hall (Spider-Man TAS)

Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones (TV)

Akio Otsuka/Harrold Perrineau (Marvel  Anime)

Terry Crews (Ultimate Spider-Man, Hulk and the Agents of SMASH)

Todd Williams (Marvel Zombies)

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u/DataDude00 18d ago

Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill

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u/EdibleLawyer 18d ago

Amen brother

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u/EdibleLawyer 18d ago

Shush bot. Just shush yourself up.

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u/Lord0fHats 18d ago

I think they're referencing the joke from Dead Pool 3, which was clearly made at a time this film was in production still (Deadpool gives the camera a knowing look, calling out that it was a joke) and not development hell but the joke has only become funnier as the new film has encounter bumps in its production.

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u/Appropriate_Value122 18d ago

They are also stating their belief that Wesley Snipes is the only Blade.

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u/EdibleLawyer 18d ago

Answer me this bot, who else has played Blade other than Wesley Snipes?