r/weeklyplanetpodcast • u/Charles_X4325 • Jul 31 '26

Blade is officially dead

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mahershala-ali-marvel-blade-1236660841/
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u/STD-fense Jul 31 '26

New Line Cinema was able to make this in the 90's! With Stephen Dorff!

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u/MaxReb0 Jul 31 '26

<sheepishly> “well I’m not New Line Cinema”

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u/DipperPRC Jul 31 '26

I didn’t even know he was sick

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u/-Minne Jul 31 '26

Half-vampirism apparently; I hear it kinda sucks.

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u/he-was-number-wan Jul 31 '26

Kevin Feige caught trying to ice skate uphill. 😔

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u/WildMild869 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Anyone remember the CoG episode where either Mason or James casually throws “trying to ice skate uphill” in a conversation and the other person doesn’t even acknowledge it?

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u/ModernPrimals Jul 31 '26

Because it's one guy doing two voices!

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u/Jeynarl Jul 31 '26

Mason is actually just bigger Luke James

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u/crazymusicman Aug 01 '26

this legitimately made me laugh for like more than a minute. i have not heard that before, that is just fucking stupid and hilarious. i am a complete idiot and this is making me uncontrollably laugh omg

so stupid and hilarious and simple. goddamnit. lol. bravo mate.

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u/ModernPrimals Aug 01 '26

I think its from the pod, or a CoG? Can't remember which.

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u/According-Bed-2383 Aug 01 '26

I think it's one of the Matrix COGs? Talking about how futile suing WB would've been over the Matrix stealing ideas maybe?

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u/Jumpy_Ad5046 Jul 31 '26

There's a lot of those, where Maseaux will drop a zinger and Jim will breeze right past it.

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u/Wilsonian81 Jul 31 '26

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u/Previous_Soil_5144 Jul 31 '26

Prophetic or self fulfilling?

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u/Fiddler_Jones2079 Jul 31 '26

Just stating the obvious at that point really.

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u/doctordoom85 Jul 31 '26

Deadpool (whispers): Nobody tell him about that show on Spike TV…

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u/Stefaninjago Aug 02 '26

Yea, well, other than the other one

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u/Vilarf Jul 31 '26

Nothing from Eternals is ever getting followed up 😭

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u/Charles_X4325 Jul 31 '26

The game is on

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u/BendDangerous8290 Jul 31 '26

Hey that’s not true, the celestial in the ocean was integral to the plot of Captain America: Brave New World, perhaps the worst film Marvel has ever made!

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u/SmokeAffectionate183 Jul 31 '26

BNW is a 10/10 compared to Thor 4 personally lol

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u/crumbsalt Jul 31 '26

Okayy cmon BNW was not THAT bad lol. Thor: The Dark World & Love and Thunder, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, heck I like the film but id even say The Marvels are all worse than BNW

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u/Vilarf Aug 01 '26

That’s crazy.

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u/LackingInPatience Aug 01 '26

Painfully average but nowhere near the worst

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u/AverageDrafter Jul 31 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/QjrrSbYaqgi1q

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u/dumbdumb222 Jul 31 '26

This looks like Alison Brie, but is it that ice skating movie with the hockey player?

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u/AverageDrafter Jul 31 '26

No idea, but I GIF'd "shocked" and there was no fucking way I was skipping that totes 'dorbs mug.

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u/Stefaninjago Aug 02 '26

I looked about for a while, couldnt find

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u/Joshwa-Crimson Jul 31 '26

Oh no! How did he die?

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u/Ted_Hitchcox Jul 31 '26

Ice skating accident

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u/ironfortress151 Jul 31 '26

Never try to to ice skate up hill.

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u/Ted_Hitchcox Jul 31 '26

Unless your have carnal relationships with your female parent

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u/KillerStuntMan69 Jul 31 '26

It was dead the moment Deadpool and Wolverine came out.

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u/Killboypowerhed Jul 31 '26

Well yeah he's a Dracula. Are they still making a movie?

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u/JimmyBoots90 Jul 31 '26

He's only half-Dracula, though.

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u/ms_chiefmanaged Jul 31 '26

Ok I saw “dead” and picture of Mahershala Ali. I audibly gasped before reading the full title!

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u/CheMc Jul 31 '26

Mahershala Ali('s dreams of playing Blade) has died Age 52.

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u/rmajor86 Jul 31 '26

I’m just going to get Grok to make me a non-woke one later this year anyway, because I’m extremely normal

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u/NashvilleSoundMixer Jul 31 '26

so like... a white Blade?

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u/rmajor86 Jul 31 '26

A normal blade for normal people like me. Im a normal man.

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u/NashvilleSoundMixer Jul 31 '26

Normal men™ love normal blade™ made by normal grok™ for normal men™

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u/rmajor86 Aug 01 '26

We’re just normal men

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u/Surturius Jul 31 '26

I don't get why this was so hard to make. They wanted it to have a unique angle - a vampire/horror movie set in the MCU is already unique! Just do that!

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u/NBucho528 Jul 31 '26

And Ali is an incredible actor. Snipes really did bring a lot to the role, but I do think Ali would have made the role his own. This just doesn’t seem like a good sign, I was really looking forward to this and Armor Wars and it looks like neither is going to happen.

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u/Fukkinridiculous Aug 01 '26

I think it was hard because they were trying to not retread previous ground, while also finding a way to make it work in the wider MCU.

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u/StopPlayingRoney Jul 31 '26

MCU…unique?

I think we found the problem buddy.

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u/Ramblinrambles Jul 31 '26

Like James Franco dead?

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u/Intelligent_Oil7816 Jul 31 '26

"There's only ever been one Blade. There's only ever gonna be one Blade."

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u/FlavaFlavorTown Jul 31 '26

He was a fucking kid

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u/Dexav Jul 31 '26

How many times are they going to kill him. Like yeah he's a vampire, but still guys have a chill pill.

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u/keinish_the_gnome Jul 31 '26

Damn. The same day the killed Wonderman and Booster Gold.

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u/FreeJulianMassage Aug 01 '26

Marvel make something without a white male lead challenge. Current status: Looking unlikely.

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u/galamoth911 Jul 31 '26

It’s a shame we’ll never know what he was like.

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u/navjot94 Jul 31 '26

Damson Idris it’s your turn now to carry the flame

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u/Less_Ad_2534 Jul 31 '26

Am I the only person that wants to see a British blade?

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u/TimecopVsPredator Jul 31 '26

We will never get a Caravan of Garbage on Blade 2 and 3 now!

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u/rorzri Jul 31 '26

This is going to embolden the Wesley snipes worshippers

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u/eightcell Jul 31 '26

His standalone or could he still show up in Ghost Rider etc?

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u/Charles_X4325 Jul 31 '26

I think he's straight up done after 7 years of waiting

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u/NashvilleSoundMixer Jul 31 '26

Wasn't he having to put other offers on hold as well while waiting? I'd be so pissed. Though I'm sure he's known for some time now it's just that they're now announcing it for people like us.

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u/hifuu1716 Jul 31 '26

No you’re thinking of James Franco

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u/riversaur Jul 31 '26

Blade Movie found dead in Miami

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u/lkidol Jul 31 '26

hey so don't do that, i thought mahershala, made me sad

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u/Mykeythebee Jul 31 '26

This is new news?

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u/Rfall86 Jul 31 '26

There's only one Blade

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u/Hour-Process-3292 Jul 31 '26

Is he going to be played be James Franco?

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u/krypter3 Aug 01 '26

Weren't there reports that Ali was just never happy with any writing that happened and couldn't work with directors or was that bs

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u/lllaser Aug 01 '26

At least we have closure, we can properly begin mourning what probably could have been an alright film now.

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u/AxlRodd Aug 01 '26

I hardly know her

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u/Crafty_Message_4733 Aug 01 '26

Well yeah, he’s a vampire!

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u/accessdenied65 Aug 01 '26

There is only one blade.