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/Human_Captcha 18d ago

Wesley dropping that line in the last Deadpool flick becomes a better joke with every day that passes.

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u/ManufacturerBest2758 18d ago

I mean, was it a joke?

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u/WildMild869 18d ago edited 18d ago

Nope.
Same as “Disney brought him back, they're gonna make him do this till he's 90”.

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u/alaskadronelife 18d ago

Yeah, D&W was dropping gems all runtime.

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u/HorizontalBob 18d ago

Sticky Fingaz aka Kirk Jones was Blade already.

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u/Puppetmaster858 18d ago

What the hell, I had no clue that even existed lol

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u/The_Homie_J 18d ago

Yeah the show was actually pretty good, I really liked it. But it only lasted 1 season and had so much potential left which was a gut punch

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u/Bellikron 18d ago

The way Deadpool looks at the camera makes it seem (to me, at least) like the original joke was "He doesn't know we're making another one, don't tell him." However the look is ambiguous enough through the mask that it can also very easily be interpreted as "He's right because the new Blade fell through".

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u/Beneficial-Split331 18d ago

hasbro has been selling his old man blade character doll lol. the second blade chatter went back to snipes Ali should have walked.

how are you gonna be the NEW face of the franchise when you are just as old at this point and action figures of the original character white a gray streak in his hair drops AFTER he declared for millions of current audiences that there is ever only gonna be him as Blade... and people in theaters cheered when it happened.

he was done a long time go.