Original Blade star pokes fun at Marvel's reboot after it loses second director
Jun. 17, 2024Wesley Snipes? More like Wesley swipes…
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Blade star Wesley Snipes looks to have poked fun at Marvel’s struggles to reboot the 1998 action-horror movie, followingdirector Yann Demange’s recent exit.
“Blade, lordylordylordy,” Snipes teased on Twitter, alongside the side eye emoji. “Folks still lookin for the secret sauce, ridin snowmobiles in traffic, kinda rough. Daywalkers make it look easy, don’t they?”
Back in the late ’90s, Snipes played Blade’s titular character, a vampire hybrid who uses his unique, half-human abilities to hunt down bloodsuckers. His reason for disliking his kind? His mother was attacked by a fanged fiend when she was pregnant, and died from her wounds during childbirth. In the movie, Blade finds himself facing off against Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), a vampire hellbent on unleashing the blood god La Magra, and ridding the world of mortals.
Mahershala Ali was heard as Blade inthe post-credits scene of Eternals, as he questioned off-screen whether Kit Harington’s Dane Whitman is ready to wield the Ebony Blade. He is set to reprise the role in Blade’s solo movie, sharing the screen alongside fellow confirmed cast members Delroy Lindo, John West Jr., Milan Ray, and Mia Goth.
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