Marvel's Blade (2025, D: Demange) - S: Mahershala Ali
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I hope this means we'll see Dracula in the MCU. We've already gotten Werewolf by Night and Man-Thing, bring on more monsters! Frankenstein would be unlikely but great too. It would be cool seeing Marvel eat Universal's lunch with their own monster subuniverse within the MCU.
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Nic Pizzolatto has gone Marvel.
The creator of acclaimed crime anthology, True Detective, is working on Blade, Marvel Studios’ vampire thriller starring Mahershala Ali.
The development marks a True Detective reunion as Ali starred in season three of Pizzolatto’s HBO show.
Blade is batting its wings towards a late May start of production in Atlanta with Yann Demange, who helmed the pilot of HBO’s boundary-pushing horror series Lovecraft Country, in the director’s chair.
The feature is casting up and most recently added rising scream queen Mia Goth to the call sheet. Delroy Lindo is also on the roster.
Blade currently has a script by Michael Starrbury, who earned an Emmy nomination for penning an episode of Ava DuVernay’s drama, When They See Us. Sources say Pizzolatto is working off Starrbury’s draft and has been keyboarding for a few weeks now.
Blade was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan for 1973’s The Tomb of Dracula No. 10. He is a half-mortal, half-immortal who hunts vampires in order to avenge his mother, who was killed by a vampire as she gave birth to him. He previously got the big-screen treatment with a trio of horror action thrillers from New Line in the early 2000s that starred Wesley Snipes.
Marvel has set a release date of Sept. 6, 2024 for Blade.
Pizzolatto was a novelist and short story writer before transitioning to screenwriting and became a known name thanks to True Detective, the acclaimed crime series that airs on HBO. The first season starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, and became a water cooler show that had audiences at the edge of their seats thanks to a dark and mysterious tone, deep character work, and strong acting. Ali lead the third season that was set in the Ozarks and earned an Emmy nomination for his performance.
Pizzolatto is also working on a new version of classic Western The Magnificent Seven. It’s a series take on the concept which the writer explored when he co-wrote an all-star movie remake in 2016 that starred Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke.
The writer is repped by WME and Anonymous Content.
The creator of acclaimed crime anthology, True Detective, is working on Blade, Marvel Studios’ vampire thriller starring Mahershala Ali.
The development marks a True Detective reunion as Ali starred in season three of Pizzolatto’s HBO show.
Blade is batting its wings towards a late May start of production in Atlanta with Yann Demange, who helmed the pilot of HBO’s boundary-pushing horror series Lovecraft Country, in the director’s chair.
The feature is casting up and most recently added rising scream queen Mia Goth to the call sheet. Delroy Lindo is also on the roster.
Blade currently has a script by Michael Starrbury, who earned an Emmy nomination for penning an episode of Ava DuVernay’s drama, When They See Us. Sources say Pizzolatto is working off Starrbury’s draft and has been keyboarding for a few weeks now.
Blade was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan for 1973’s The Tomb of Dracula No. 10. He is a half-mortal, half-immortal who hunts vampires in order to avenge his mother, who was killed by a vampire as she gave birth to him. He previously got the big-screen treatment with a trio of horror action thrillers from New Line in the early 2000s that starred Wesley Snipes.
Marvel has set a release date of Sept. 6, 2024 for Blade.
Pizzolatto was a novelist and short story writer before transitioning to screenwriting and became a known name thanks to True Detective, the acclaimed crime series that airs on HBO. The first season starred Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, and became a water cooler show that had audiences at the edge of their seats thanks to a dark and mysterious tone, deep character work, and strong acting. Ali lead the third season that was set in the Ozarks and earned an Emmy nomination for his performance.
Pizzolatto is also working on a new version of classic Western The Magnificent Seven. It’s a series take on the concept which the writer explored when he co-wrote an all-star movie remake in 2016 that starred Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke.
The writer is repped by WME and Anonymous Content.
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Re: Marvel's Blade (2024, D: Demange) - S: Mahershala Ali
Wow, so this is like the 3rd re-write of the script. Since Pizzolatto is already working off a draft, he will probably get a co-writer credit. They have lots of time though, so hopefully his version of the script will polish things up.
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Re: Marvel's Blade (2024, D: Demange) - S: Mahershala Ali
Unfortunately this is gonna be so bad. Seems like this was announced before even Endgame came out. When has a clusterfuck production that has taken this long ever turned out more than just merely decent?
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^ Since announcement, Marvel is making it such a connective universe, the Phases have changed. Though I feel this should be along the lines of Werewolf By Night. Like Marvel's own Elseworlds that they could connect at some point down the line, instead of trying to force it into the MCU.
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Re: Marvel's Blade (2024, D: Demange) - S: Mahershala Ali
The writers strike has taken a bite out of Blade.
Marvel Studios is shutting down pre-production on its vampire thriller starring Mahershala Ali, which was set to begin filming next month in Atlanta. The feature project, which has already been paused once before, becomes the first tentpole movie impacted by the strike.
Cast and crew members are being notified this afternoon.
Blade had recently hired True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto to work on the script, but, according to an insider, “time simply ran out.” The studio will restart the production once the strike is over.
Marvel Studios is shutting down pre-production on its vampire thriller starring Mahershala Ali, which was set to begin filming next month in Atlanta. The feature project, which has already been paused once before, becomes the first tentpole movie impacted by the strike.
Cast and crew members are being notified this afternoon.
Blade had recently hired True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto to work on the script, but, according to an insider, “time simply ran out.” The studio will restart the production once the strike is over.
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I had a feeling this was bound to get delayed, especially when Nic Pizzolatto was hired to do re-writes right before the strike. If only they had a completed script.
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Re: Marvel's Blade (2024, D: Demange) - S: Mahershala Ali
At the pace this thing is moving along, production will be shut down for the NEXT writers strike as well.
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Re: Marvel's Blade (2024, D: Demange) - S: Mahershala Ali
Since this is such a troubled production -- and it's now being delayed by the writers stirke -- I wonder if they won't end up just scuttling Blade entirely.
Seems like there are few lambs that get sacrificed during these strikes, and this could be one of them.
Seems like there are few lambs that get sacrificed during these strikes, and this could be one of them.
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Re: Marvel's Blade (2024, D: Demange) - S: Mahershala Ali
Perhaps the strike comes as a blessing. Pizzolatto won't be writing anything (officially), but he won't turn off his head either. So he has a lot of time to think about the script and how to make it work, because the release date probably will be pushed further down the road.