Who would have thought that a movie featuring Blade would have as much trouble getting off the ground as most film versions of Don Quixote? However, not everyone has a sour outlook on the character’s first foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
One actor attached to the trouble production, Mia Goth, has some positive things to say. Well, optimistic in a nebulous sort of way.
Speaking to Deadline on the red carpet for Ti West’s MaXXXine, Goth shared her thoughts on the troubled production. After multiple delays, rewrites, and director swaps, Goth believes Marvel/Disney are aiming high:
“They really care. They do. They want to make a great movie. That’s the sense that I get from them, and … that feels good.“
Mia Goth on her experience working with Marvel for her MCU debut in ‘Blade’ : “They want to make a great movie” pic.twitter.com/9i6bndBHUw
— Deadline (@DEADLINE) June 25, 2024
Goth is set to play Lilith. Depending on which era of comic books you’re reading, the character is either a vampire (the daughter of Dracula) or the ‘Mother of All Demons.’ Considering Blade’s primary antagonists are blood-suckers, odds are Lilith will be based on the classic version from the mid-1970s.
What else do you need to make this script work? Well, you’ve got to keep the weirdo fan-fiction types out of it, or else we’ll end up with another story that makes Blade a backseat passenger in his own movie. Dracula and his daughter versus Blade? That’s some epic stuff!
OK, another concession that needs to be made is that Dracula cannot be anything like he was in Blade Trinity. Phew …
Regardless of those details, we may never see Blade’s MCU debut. It has been in production Hell for years.
The ongoing troubles of the vampire hunter flick caught the attention of the original on-screen Blade, Wesley Snipes. The actor didn’t mince words when commenting on how such a simple premise appears to be so difficult for modern Marvel productions:
Blade, lordylordylordy 👀 folks still lookin for the secret sauce, ridin snowmobiles in traffic, kinda rough.
Daywalkers make it look easy, don’t they? 😊#DaywalkerKlique #Blade #Marvel pic.twitter.com/YZVAqg9egz
— Wesley Snipes (@wesleysnipes) June 16, 2024
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