Marvel studios: BLADE with Maharesha Ali

[pimpmaster9000]

Blade looking mofo that is for sure...fuck I hope they do not screw this one up...the first blade was the SHIT it made me want to run around the city with a sword cutting people in half...loved it...please please marvel do not screw this one up....

[kane]

Could be cool. That guy is one hell of a good actor.

[2MuchMark]

I never read the Blade comics, but I liked all 3 Blade movies.

[brassmonkey]

too bad they axed snipes because he is actually trained in martial arts i don't know if Maharesha Ali is trained

[Busty2]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

too bad they axed snipes because he is actually trained in martial arts i don't know if Maharesha Ali is trained

[Paul&John]

Maharesha is awesome

[bronco67]

Conservatives will be crying about the casting being racist because they wanted a white Blade.

[bronco67]

If they were going to cast someone who looks just like Wesley Snipes, why not cast Wesley Snipes? He still looks the same. He's probably an actual vampire.

[pimpmaster9000]

Originally Posted by bronco67

If they were going to cast someone who looks just like Wesley Snipes, why not cast Wesley Snipes? He still looks the same. He's probably an actual vampire.

seems as though he was trouble to work with...this is a great shame because blade was literally made for him...

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by bronco67

If they were going to cast someone who looks just like Wesley Snipes, why not cast Wesley Snipes? He still looks the same. He's probably an actual vampire.

you sleepy??? money! ali is not getting snipes money

[bronco67]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

you sleepy??? money! ali is not getting snipes money

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Ali is a big star now...but I don't think he would draw people to a Blade movie like Wesley Snipes would.

But I get what they're doing. They don't want to make Blade 4...they want a whole new thing and they have to purge Snipes.

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by bronco67

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Ali is a big star now...but I don't think he would draw people to a Blade movie like Wesley Snipes would.

But I get what they're doing. They don't want to make Blade 4...they want a whole new thing and they have to purge Snipes.

just like iron man... terrance howard wanted white folks pay.

[bronco67]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

just like iron man... terrance howard wanted white folks pay.

I doubt Marvel made their choice for the new Blade based on how much money the actor would require. Any difference would be a drop in the bucket compared to the overall expense of the flick...and how much it could possibly make in profits. The decision to cast Ali is definitely about who is popular now and just refreshing the franchise. Snipes can't really do that.

Will they make a better Blade movie than Blade 2? I find that hard to believe.

[Slappin Fish]

Originally Posted by bronco67

If they were going to cast someone who looks just like Wesley Snipes, why not cast Wesley Snipes? He still looks the same. He's probably an actual vampire.

This was trending on Reddit today... had to cgi him opening his eyes because dude was so difficult he wouldn't come out of his trailer to do it

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetail...d_dificulties/

Patton Oswalt about Snipes "He refused to answer to anything but "Blade." And spoke in the first third person to everyone on set, like, "Get Blade some coffee. Or "Blade is going to his trailer."

He spent whole shooting days smoking weed in his trailer. He would outright refuse to be on set during some of his scenes, so you'll notice that a lot of the "conversation" scenes show Snipes by himself, then it cuts to the rest of the group, because they had to film it separately.

Apparently, they even had to adjust the writing to just exclude him when he wouldn't show up for certain scenes, which is why it seems like the supporting characters have a ton of screentime.

Towards the end of production, he refused to come to work if the current director was still on the project, the studio wouldn't fire him, so they shot the rest of the movie without him.

He also made physical threats toward Ryan Reynolds, Patton Oswalt, and the director... Snipes was basically blacklisted from Hollywood after that movie for his behavior"

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by Slappin Fish

... Snipes was basically blacklisted from Hollywood after that movie for his behavior"

Your source is lying

A HUGE lie

All you have to do is check Snipes IMDB and see he's been in roughly one movie per year since Blade Trinity was released.

The studio didn't want to pay Snipes what he's worth. End of story

That being said, expect a Snipes cameo in the movie ;)

[Slappin Fish]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Your source is lying

A HUGE lie

All you have to do is check Snipes IMDB and see he's been in roughly one movie per year since Blade Trinity was released.

The studio didn't want to pay Snipes what he's worth. End of story

The whole quote was too long, here is the rest of it:


"... which is why every movie he made after that was a direct-to-video dumpster fire."


Incidently the source for the anectodes is Patton Oswalt who was in the movie he says on a talk show, it is on youtube somewhere

[pimpmaster9000]

snipes smoked too much weed...he is a karate guy...useless in the street but he got in to brawls outside the studio and got his ass handed to him several times...