New failure coming for Marvel? While the studio is trying to rekindle the flame among spectators after the failures of The Marvels and The Eternals, its Blade remake project is facing a new problem behind the scenes. Enough to laugh at Wesley Snipes, who was not invited to reprise his role.
Before experiencing some problems with the tax authorities in the USA, Wesley Snipes was one of the kings of the box office in Hollywood. And among his emblematic roles, it is difficult not to mention that of Blade – this vampiric anti-superhero from the comics of Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan at Marvel, whom he played in three films: Blade (1998), Blade II (2002) and Blade Trinity (2004).
A cursed project behind the scenes?
However, where the actor left his mark on this character, Marvel made the decision to relaunch the franchise, without him. In 2019, the studio – which hopes to revive public interest after some failures within the MCU, announced a remake of Blade worn this time by Mahershala Ali (Luke Cage, Green Book). Issue ? Five years later, it still hasn’t landed on our screens and doesn’t seem close to doing so.
After seeing the director Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli) leave the project two months before the start of filming in September 2022, today it is the turn of Yann Demange (Undercover: A true story), his successor, to do the same. A priori, the studio’s lack of precise vision, causing production delays, would have ended up tiring of it.
To this end, we also learned at the same time that a new screenwriter, Eric Pearson (Black Widow, Thor…
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