Marvel Selects Bassam Tariq To Direct New 'Blade' Film With Mahershala Ali To Star

On 7/21/2021 at 12:05 AM, watanabefan said:

He better have his sick green rain coat this time.

And his goggles

Keep it clean, that's hilarious. You've got a small group of bigots that aggressively push a racist agenda on every post they can twist to fit but calling that what it is that's the problem. Just their opinions. Good stuff man.

On 7/20/2021 at 5:47 PM, Gigantor said:

Never let your feelings get in the way of the facts.

[snort]

He better have his sick green rain coat this time.

The only thing I want to know about this movie is will Ali give us a british accent. lol

On 7/20/2021 at 2:39 AM, LordVenger said:

How is this tokenism?

Tokenism = brown people doing stuff, apparently. I don't know. The political tirades on this forum are almost always ridiculous.

Anyway, glad to see this one is finally coming together. Just finished rewatching True Detective Season 3 during quarantine. Ali is gonna kill it as Blade.

On 7/20/2021 at 5:10 PM, MonsterChris said:

It's not just you. I'm torn. I think he's going to absolutely kill it as Blade, but it's already weird enough when Black Mariah shows up in Civil War. It's a difficult thing to ignore. Luke Cage season 1 is my favorite of the Netflix things.

Yeah I'm glad I'm not the only weirdo who feels this way, It was one of the main staples of the MCU that each character was clearly defined by an actor (bruce banner, thaddeus ross and rhodey exempted because this was the beginning, also fendral doesn' really count), either way since the MCU took off and substantiated itself, it's been a huge point to make sure everyone one even the smallest characters are those characters.

On 7/20/2021 at 5:00 PM, Lord_Scareglow said:

now on to my gripe about this whole blade movie, yes love Marshalala Ali, great actor, but and I know this is a stupid thing,, but he was already cottonmouth! , so that makes me bummed out marvel obviously is saying Netflix shows are not cannon anymore, I hate the idea of the same actor being two different people in the MCU, but I guess moving forward this is a thing, but anyways he's going to be an awesome blade, I just will need some time to get over him also having been Cornel stokes.

It's not just you. I'm torn. I think he's going to absolutely kill it as Blade, but it's already weird enough when Black Mariah shows up in Civil War. It's a difficult thing to ignore. Luke Cage season 1 is my favorite of the Netflix things.

On 7/20/2021 at 2:58 PM, tarot said:

@OutsidersI'm actually more surprised that you responded. Usually you just post the news. lol

I'll give the Marvel posters credit for being more decent and civil toward each other than other forums. Most times I can just sit in the shadows and relax...

Marvel Studios is a finely tuned, near-perfected machine. They don't want veteran directors with boldness of vision and clout. They don't want artists. They want people who will come in and do the work exactly as the machine specifies. They haven't been using A-list directors since the first THOR; instead, they want very young and fresh directors that Marvel can control or journeymenwith a background in television who are used to filling in and working with set parameters and not letting their egos get in the way of the productions.

Bassam Tarriq has only directed one feature film before this? That's not anything new.

The Russo brothers had only directed two or three movies and were mostly known as TV directors before they came aboard CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER.Same with James Gunn before GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY; he had two movies and a bunch of shorts or TV. Same with Taika Waititi before THOR: RAGNAROK.Jon Watts had one feature length film credit under his belt before they hired him to direct SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING. Ryan Coogler directed two movies before BLACK PANTHER. Chloe Zhao had three before THE ETERNALS. Cate Shortland did three before BLACK WIDOW.

Marvel isn't going to hire somebody with a long resume of credits and clout within the industry. (Sam Raimi seems to be the exception to this; I am shocked they brought him aboard to direct the Doctor Strange sequel.) The reason is because they give the directors relatively little to do; so much of the action and spectacle of the movies is coordinated and directed by the second unit teams, who work on that part of the production so far in advance that oftentimes that part of the work is being done before the director has even signed on. Ava DuVernay walked away from a Marvel Studios offer because she didn't want to surrender that much of her control to the studio; she wanted to oversee all of the action and visual effects parts of the production, and Marvel said "No, we got that covered, you just direct the talkie scenes" and she said peace out.

This is the machine. This is how a studio creates the unparalleled success of twenty-four consecutive crowd-pleasing, box office smashes. Because they're all formulaic; because they all feel kind of the same, like comfort food. The trade off is, you'll never get a visionary genre-defying transcendent piece of film like Christopher Nolan's THE DARK KNIGHT or James Mangold's LOGAN. But you also won't get a jaw-dropping clusterfuck like BATMAN V. SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE.

TL;DR - Martin Scorsese won'tdirect BLADE.