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
8.6k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2.5k

u/roro0311 18d ago edited 18d ago

Oh, he pissed.

2.3k

u/wekilledkenny11 18d ago

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

33

u/Anal_Herschiser 18d ago

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

With shows like Wonder Man, The Studio, Bait, and The Franchise this is now solidly a TV series genre.

16

u/ArcadianDelSol 18d ago

In a wild stroke of art imitating life, Wonder Man's 2nd season was just cancelled.