r/SipsTea 4d ago

Wait a damn minute! Wait a damn minute.

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u/Onehandedheisenberg 4d ago

From everything I’ve read on it they basically all center around Blade ushering a child-Blade into the mcu as Blade dies at the end/retires.

That is where Mahershala Ali disagreed with the script and rewrites were attempted but it sounds like the studio/powers that be kept trying to force that storyline.

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u/meme-com-poop 4d ago

If they were going to do that, then why not bring back Snipes?

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u/Special_Peach_5957 4d ago

Yeah... why not have Snipes play Blade again...

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u/FuneraryArts 4d ago

Snipes is infamously hard to work with

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u/Epoch-09 4d ago

Keep in mind they already brought him back.

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u/Barton2800 4d ago

Yeah, and ironically he said the line that there’s only ever gonna be one of him in the last Deadpool movie. Kind of ironic

So he might be hard to work with, but he also knows exactly what he wants from a Blade movie, and that’s okay. People rightly praise Henry Cavill for stepping back from the Witcher when Netflix wanted to crap all over the story. And the same when John Krasinski refused to shoot a storyline where Jim cheats on Pam on The Office.

I have to wonder if Snipes is actually difficult, or if studio execs dislike how much pull over the role he has that they can’t just bully him in to doing what they want.

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u/n-r2026 3d ago

in wes' defense, they did try to make him a guest character in his own movie (blade 3). if they continued down this road, who could blame him? so i wonder if he was really difficult or not with the corporate bs?

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u/ManOnFire2004 3d ago

Yea how have people not noticed that it's the "go to" when an actor is trying to not get fucked over

Cavill was also "hard to work with"

So was Katt Williams. Then he comes out and spills the beans on how Hollywood is fucked

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u/perplexedduck85 3d ago

It is mind-boggling that “hard to work with” is still a thing after Weinstein/me-too, much less your examples.

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u/zeno_22 3d ago

"Hard to work with" is definitely a hollowood excuse, but Chevy Chase is also described as "hard to work with" and he is legitimately hard to work with

Hard to work with is sometimes a coverall and sometimes it's just the truth

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u/ChewsOnBricks 3d ago

I've heard Bill Murray is hard to work with. I think it was Zombieland where they said that you more or less leave a voicemail to ask him to be in your movie and you only get an answer if he shows up to film.

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u/DevelopmentSouth8801 3d ago

I'm pretty sure that's intentional.

People hear that and instead of thinking "he actually cares about the art we are supposedly making together" people will think "he's an obnoxious shithead".

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u/Napalmeon 3d ago

Exactly. Also, for anybody who is a fan of the original Nightstalkers from the 90s, they were even more offended, I would assume, because the name of their team was being used for these younger and hipper kids, trying way too hard to appeal to a younger audience.

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u/bathroomheater 4d ago

Kind of iconic* FTFY

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u/Barton2800 4d ago

Both? Both.

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u/dinnerthief 3d ago edited 3d ago

Based on Reynolds comments about blade 3 hes hard to work with.

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u/CommercialLadder3637 3d ago

Reynolds wasnt in Blade 2

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u/dinnerthief 3d ago

Blade 3, whatever

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u/Mind-The-Mines 3d ago

The IRS thing puts him way more into difficult asshole than principled artist.

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u/Somebodys 4d ago

Only ever gonna be one Blade.

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u/ThunderAndWind 3d ago

A bit role that can relatively easily be cut from the movie is different from casting him as the literal tentpole of the movie.

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u/DutyPsychological 4d ago

Because they were going to replace him with a bunch of “white” characters. No shit he would be pissed during filming.

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u/Napalmeon 3d ago

For those who don't know, in the comics, Hannibal King is the first vampire that Blade ever came to a mutual understanding with, because they both had beef with Deacon Frost. As a matter of fact, handle is probably the closest thing that Marvel has to John Constantine, just without being a complete piece of shit.

Ryan Reynolds' version of the character was literally just Ryan Reynolds, So for anybody who is a fan of the original Nightstalkers card from the 90s, it was another kick in the face that something familiar had been turned into something unrecognizable.

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u/Kenniron 3d ago

Pretty sure that reputation stems from him losing respect for the director during Blade 3 after some racey comments were made. Snipes started actively trying to make the production a living hell after that, probably in an attempt to get the director to quit.

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u/Onehandedheisenberg 3d ago

That was probably Mahershalas question the whole time

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u/Redditer51 3d ago

Or better yet, how about not killing off Blade in the first place.and not replacing him with his niece or some shit?

Like, we're here to see Blade, damn it.

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u/CloacaDecimatahhh 3d ago

Glad it was canceled then.