Blade Going In For More Rewrites: Is This Film Doomed - The John Campea Show

[@randomkillerx2157]

If we are going to get a 50 year old Blade, might as well just get Wesley Snipes to play the role again.

[@ubuu7]

Snipes has a better "look" as blade than Ali. There. I said it.

[@Magdalena8008s]

​@@ubuu7 How do you know? You haven't seen him play Blade yet. It's absurd to judge anything based on not seeing anything yet.

[@bajansamurai]

​@@Magdalena8008sI get what he means, but that's honestly only because the Snipes look established what Blade looked like following the movie, and Sticky Fingaz emulated that look too (incidentally, it is a very different look from what Blade originally had). That said, Wesley no longer looks like what people think in their heads, and if Ali makes it cool, it'll be alright.

[@randomkillerx2157]

@@bajansamurai Snipes is only 11 years older than Ali. At this point, I don’t see Mahershala playing the role for more than one movie or max maybe two, so this might be a one and done. Just get Wesley, he is not doing anything. I can’t believe Ali committed five years of his movie career to this train wreck of a film. When he signed on, the MCU was at the peak of box office glory, now after five years it has gone to DCEU territory. It’s not as lucrative as it once was.

[@simonkammeyer4334]

That's so funny. But so true. Lol. Ali would definitely kill it as the daywalker tho. Hopefully he sticks it out. Or ya, they get Wesley. Which they should of done in the first place.

[@davidalsbrooksjr4786]

I sincerely feel regarding movie attendance, that the pandemic and quick turnaround to streaming has made people more picky and economical about what they'll go out to see

[@bajansamurai]

Yup. It's that turn around time that really seals things because impatience would make many others reverse their pandemic trepidation.

[@michaeljeacock]

every movie you listed that made money was an event movie. People decided Furiousa was not an event movie. Thanks to a lack of money and the silly theatrical windows, people decided they can watch this at home in a few weeks and save their money for Deadpool and Inside Out 2.

[@greenteawlemon4237]

Looking forward to Knives Out 3..Love the whodunnit genre..Death On The Nile 1978 has to be my all time favourite🍿

[@kylecoley2016]

How about Mr Ali for Kang??

[@shixter]

Why does Blade need to be IN the "MCU"?? Why can't it just be a stand alone IP? Why does it need to have cross-over into the whole MCU Universe? Just make it it's own property and be done with it.

[@THEMARCKNIGHT89]

Because Blade is a character that lives in the Marvel universe.

[@shixter]

@@THEMARCKNIGHT89 So? It's Comics... everyone is connected to everyone somewhere at some time... If it doesn't work with the story/world you've created - but is still a great story - then just do a one off. Not EVERY Character has to be in a "universe"

[@will88TFs4Life]

Werewolf by night already introduced the idea of monster hunters, so we know there are monsters like vampires out there, and Blade is simply another one of those hunters. So I really dont see how vampires and monsters are a crutch all of a sudden

[@alexp601]

1:15:58 "Nicole Kidman is on screen, and Ray is starting to put his junk away." 😅

[@ourfamilyaccount]

Can't speak to everyone but on Memorial day itself I went to a cemetery and witnessed a plane fly over and live music. I was there to honor those that served. I also noticed in my area on the news we had an local comic convention that same weekend so I like to think folks didn't want to flock to a movie theater because they weren't pulled in by the offerings. I did see 'IF' with a group of four people and fitted the bill when it debuted.. that was a sticker shock price so I'm also hesitant to return.

[@Lazarus425]

Robert 100% preaching today !!

[@ardentdfender4116]

I would say at this point Blade as a MCU movie is “Cursed” in getting to the point of actual movie start production. It’s like that movie that just can’t get to start of filming,

[@davematias7925]

Mr. RMB is having a great hair day.

[@17jbeltran]

Following up on yesterday's stream: I'd like to see Giancarlo Esposito as Orson Randall, Iron Fist. Randall was an Iron Fist from WW1 character, but I think you can easily update that to Vietnam to fit Esposito's age in the current day. I think this could set the stage for an interesting prequel series pitting Tony Leung's Wenwu v Esposito's Orson Randall. And then moving forward you could have Esposito be a Stick-type character for Iron Fist, Daredevil, Shang-Chi, etc and an opposition for Xu Xialing's(Shang-Chi's sister) version of the Ten Rings.

[@bajansamurai]

Orson already was living on borrowed time because of his chi control, so it's noting to say Giancarlo is playing a 100 year old character

[@17jbeltran]

@@bajansamurai thats so cool! I didn't know that but it makes a lot of sense with how young he looks in the comics

[@bajansamurai]

@@17jbeltran yup. That's part of it, the other thing about K'un-Lun and the hidden cities is that they can always say time flowed differently in that extra-dimensional pocket realm so a WWI character hasn't aged as much.

[@achaudhari101]

Blade is definitely not going to have that $100 million dollar budget at the rate it’s going.

[@achaudhari101]

@@ruban8135 You think replacing all of those writers and directors is free let alone delaying the film constantly?

[@xsvrrx]

if D&D came out after BG3 it might have made a lot more money

[@vladimirjak8971]

John needs to think about this Indiewire report's line "A new poll by HarrisX, exclusive to IndieWire, found that 34 percent of U.S. adults prefer to watch movies in theaters, which means a solid two-thirds would rather wait for them to be released on streaming." Economic factors aside, 66% of US adults can wait for a movie to hit streaming (or VOD) so the consumption model has changed and it won't go back. Let's just be honest, for the general public, if movie theater's close it won't affect them directly because they will be accustomed random movies on streaming platforms.

[@bajansamurai]

There are caveats to that though. 66% of people are OK waiting for movies on streaming partially because the release windows have gotten so short. Half the pressure to catch anything in theaters is gone because 80% of them will be out soon. Pandemic also taught people to accept longer times without movies too, as well as to have a slight feeling of riskiness about being in a public, closed space for 2-3 hours. The truly big event films will always be the exceptions that feel like people will turn out in big numbers.

[@vladimirjak8971]

@@bajansamurai While that is true that people will turn out for big events, that is actually counter productive for the theaters. If movie audiences only show up for "big budget event films" then that means the theaters cannot survive off of smaller, non-indie films, thus creating more reason to only operate for a certain amount of time because why would you risk being open during a non-event period, opening the doors during that time will cost more money than you bring in.

[@bajansamurai]

@@vladimirjak8971 Completely true. Big events aren't enough to prop up the industry. Mid level and small movies will do better if they go back to longer windows between theatrical and streaming, and now that they're changing up the streaming some, even streaming will do better if there's more fanfare around the movies that eventually make it in.

[@simonkammeyer4334]

They're already doing fantastic 4 which has the same- "where have they been this whole time and how did we not know about them" issue. And im sure marvel will make it work. So they easily do the same with blade or any other new character.

[@Ryan125y]

I've honestly thought of dropping my A-list because I can stream everything in less than two months, on services I already have.

[@simonkammeyer4334]

Marvel is doing 1 offs. Theyre called "spotlights" they already announced it. Although it was fairly recently but it could of been part of the old regime and has now changed. But i thought they were still a go. I watched one recently where it says "marvel spotlight" in the beginning instead of the standard intro.

[@blueroninstudios]

I'd love to see George Miller direct a Thor film, that'd be epic! Hemsworth's worked with him once before, gave a great performance from what Im hearing, so.....win win!

[@ourfamilyaccount]

I'd see a Metroid movie however a good portion of the audience needs to more familiar with the IP. I'd do what Pokemon did on KZbin, make shorts (3 to 5) about Samus studying various alien life, planet hopping then if the views come in it's meeting expectations then greenlit a a full length film. I personally want it to be animated, akin to, Scavenger's Reign or something.

[@ourfamilyaccount]

My spouse also reminded me of that .. Star Ship Troopers Invasion 3D animation film. So that same animation team could adapt the Metroid IP pretty well. Just make it for an PG13 rating.

[@xsvrrx]

i bought my self a huge 3d plasma tv the best speakers i could afford layboy chairs and aplaystation 3 just to beable to watch Avatar over and over again at home on 3d blueray. great times

[@xsvrrx]

granted this was over 13 years ago now

[@boomtoastedgaming3942]

Blade is the new flash

[@jexbuddy]

Too be fair. If i can only afford one streaming service.. there is NO WAY i would pick apple even if their shows are good. there is just not enough to keep my going.. id rather watch 40 sub par movies over a few months than 1 amazing one that im over and done in a day.

[@simonkammeyer4334]

But cant Marvel just say blade and the vampires are from a earth variant. We could see a blade origin movie where he's fighting vampires on his earth and then they could bring him over for midnight Suns. I mean I feel like marvel can pretty much explain anything away, If they really want to.

[@xsvrrx]

John 6 months? looks over a year to get independence day, Twister, Mission impossiable to VHS/ DVD. The lion king was 3 years. titanic was in still in theaters a year later.

[@bajansamurai]

You're talking about movies from before a time they standardized release windows though, and in most cases the 6 month window was a minimum not a directive on when big ones had to release. Most of the ones you listed had the cache to stay off VHS rental so they could re-release or have specialized cable deals.

[@bajansamurai]

Also, if they were good enough to stay in theaters a year, no one was going to shoot themselves in the foot by releasing them on home video.

[@matthewtapia1669]

blade could be from a different earth where it in the 1920s or 1930s and vampires exist, and blade is known to the world as a vampire hunter to the public. they could reference morbius the living vampire and Dracula in the movie. the main villain of the blade movie could be Dracula's daughter. the end of the movie could show dr strange and maybe clea showing up in blades world going to recruit him for avengers' secret wars. the ending of avenger's secret wars could rewrite the mcu timeline to include 4 things only. the mutants could have been involved in the past. Deadpool's origin story could be in the mcu. the fantastic four origin could set in the mcu. blade and vampires could be involved in the past .

[@alexp601]

Ummm.... yes... lots of things 'could' happen

[@taf585]

If they do that it’s going to be heavily compared to the Michael B Jordan Coogler movie and if it’s not as good it’ll hurt the MCU in not only are they copying someone but not doing it well.

[@andrewcrowder4958]

Am I the only person who has noticed that the two Knives Out movies based their major plot points - a “locked room” murder, and finding a stolen document - on the Edgar Allen Poe stories The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter?

[@bajansamurai]

Very few people are even versed on Poe like that anymore. Even I never remember Murders in the Rue Morgue, but many probably have a passing notion of the Purloined Letter.

[@zaxeq]

thanks!!! ⚡⚡⚡

[@severanvallery9554]

Not bad im going to sign up

[@cspunisher5774]

Hate to say age is probably the factor of stringing the Blade movie along. Now that Marvel has decided to go the Midnight Sons route, they realize if it's successful, this 50 year old guy might be 60 after a trilogy of Sons movies, being a physical role....they may want an out to go younger....

[@ubuu7]

He was not the right casting from the start, they needed to go younger.

[@alexp601]

They're not just realizing now that he could be too old for the role. If the film came out when it was meant to, Ali would've been like 48, and 58 after a trilogy. That's not totally different to 50 and 60. They knew what they were doing from the start (which probably wasn't the best decision)

[@cspunisher5774]

@@alexp601 they didn't project doing the Midnight Sons when they hired him... Whatever the case, he was poorly cast for the role.

[@severanvallery9554]

You are fantastic

[@christophercoe598]

29:23 --- Over multiple videos... Please stop comparing a Rated-R movie to a PG-13 movie... of course it's going to make LESS money. Compare it to other movies of the same rating, especially to ones that don't already have a built-in audience (like "Get Out" / "The Purge" / "Split" which made around the same). Side Note: I agree, the movie was indeed great, just maybe a little too late to see bigger success.

[@KJ7JHN]

Its gonna be really hard to over come the original Blade and its audience. The 2042 audience will still turn to the original. Catch 22. Anything else will be farsicle if the writing is not tight.

[@mrgibbets34]

Idk about that, Blade is appreciated but it’s not as beloved as something like the original X-men and a lot people consider X-men Days of Future Past better than X-1 and X-2.

[@brianrobinson5377]

Recast asap he’s toooo old

[@severanvallery9554]

This is the best

[@Alleyne070707]

Kong is more mountain than gorilla!

[@Hengsha]

Blade needs a recast it's a damn shame they have taken so long.

[@severanvallery9554]

We make

[@severanvallery9554]

Im team Kong will wr mdke him king one day

[@factualopinion4275]

Give me a 50 year old blade

[@xsvrrx]

furiousa i really wanna watch it but wife is not interested.

[@RickiMinaj23]

I mean, were any of those shows amazing for DC? What level of greatness? WandaVision, Ms. Marvel Or Echo, She-Hulk level?

[@RandyCassidy-xc3ep]

It will be awful

[@2saintlovature]

First :P

[@jakeclark2033]

1st.

[@2saintlovature]

No I’m first

[@holisticmassage2003]

I haven't seen either knives out yet, because I hated the last jedi, so I won't watch anything else this guy makes

[@heroes20002]

That is...weird.

[@blakesoares3331]

Give at least the first Knives Out a fair chance, it’s terrific!

[@BasedSherpa]

seek help

[@change023]

Well…that’s definitely kind of dumb but hey it’s your life

[@mstoreyjr]

Every filmmaker has a bad day at the office, even Spielberg, lol! The Knives Out films are fantastic! It's not like he's Uwe Boll, who makes nothing but complete shit, lol!

[@itsatekiar9750]

Assume=ass+u+me. Not ass+u+u

[@christianesteban7987]

Thank you! It always bothers me when he says it wrong

[@bajansamurai]

He's aware of the original saying, he switched it up on purpose to read as "If you assume, you're only making an ass of you (and "you" only), hence no "me".

[@alexp601]

@@bajansamurai Lol exactly. I figured that would've been extremely obviously. It's not like John actually thinks it's spelled 'assuu'

[@Ryan125y]

If im going to a 7pm movie. I leave my house at 7pm. I am always in my seat before Nicole Kidman comes on screen.

[@CMontgomeryBurns09]

One thing John and I have always seen eye to eye on is the obscene level of commercials before theatrical movies. Holy crap are they overboard.

[@Atomic_Brunette]

Same, I always leave later to make sure to skip the ridiculous amount of trailers

[@alexp601]

@@CMontgomeryBurns09 I hope one day we'll learn the reasoning of advertising the cinema while we're in the cinema. One time, I even got an ad telling me to go see the film I was about to see. "Go see this film in this cinema!" And I'm like... that's what I'm trying to do! Why are you telling me to watch the film in this cinema when that's what I'm doing?!

[@williamdaniels9728]

If Kenneth Branaugh isn't interested in coming back for Thor 5 then George Miller would be a natural pick to come and inject some heavy metal back into the Thor franchise. After he is done with that he might have earned enough more Hollywood cred & good will to maybe direct a "smaller" sequel to Furiosa's story showing either an old Charlize Theorn playing Furiosa or just an older actress. A Furiosa at the end of her life's story might be an interesting story and trilogy. I really wish he would try and re-tool his ideas for Max Max Wasteland as TV series instead of a prequel movie, he could serve as Executive Producer or Showrunner for HBOMax. They seem to love those spin-off shows these days with Penguin & Dune Prophecy.

[@Grimbear13]

It happen to me and my friend who go weekly to the movies. And one time we were yapping before going to walk in and i was like its fine we got like 30 min of trailers... walked in 10 mon after show time and seemed to miss 5-10 min of the movi

[@BLers-sd9rk]

Lol so furiosa was 32 minutes. Garfield had 10 And your mad at both lol

[@josephcurtisyt]

Monarch was hit and miss for me. I love the fact that the creators of the show wanted to make it more of a human story. It just sucks that some of the humans were just not as interesting. And also making really stupid decisions. And the show would sometimes deviate from the main plot with really poorly paced background episodes for certain characters, but when the focus came back to Monarch and the human perspective within monarch. Specifically with the past sequences, which were the best for the human core to the story it was just a pleasure to get on top of that the monster CGI action fest so I’m excited for season two but still a little hesitant when it comes to some of the human characters

[@sergiomendezmendez3804]

Twilight boiiiiii!!!

[@severanvallery9554]

Ready fo more knives out

[@clashnytech]

The Blade movie is gonna go the way of that Batgirl movie.

[@StonerWatchproductions]

John I had the same experience with Ryan Reynolds's If

[@blueroninstudios]

If they get Blade off the ground, it better be damn worth the long long LOOOONNNG wait, because if it fails ... that's more goodwill lost from MCU fans. It should have been 3 years which is the basic production timeline for any average film from script to screen. And yes, it's even normal for Marvels films. 5 years to even get a script everybody can agree on?! If Ali terminates his contract at this point, I wouldn't blame him, but also .... holy crap, what is going on in the writers room concerning Blade? My speculation is that they want badly to tie him into the already established universe, and they don't quite have the formula of how to do it cracked yet....but even so .... 5 years to figure that out and in just as many directors and rewrites? The writers really need to get on the same page, and hopefully they do, or they already have, but if Mahershala is wanting to exit, I wouldn't blame him especially when it's been stalled this many times from when the announcement was made that he got hired. At this point, I just hope the movies decent, no matter who plays the Daywalker. I was excited in the beginning, now I'm just like, "If we see a trailer in 2 more years, I'll check it out." I'm a ride or die MCU fan, and even I'm sick of the Blade speedbumps, lol. Hopefully, this is the final rewrite, and we'll have some actual lensing on Blade soon (2years minimum).

[@simonkammeyer4334]

Ya I stopped going to movies on time. If start is 7pm. I'll get to my seat by 7:15-7:20 and still see most previews. They're now putting Comercials in between actual trailers too. So annoying. I see all the trailers online so im not mad if I miss them.

[@ejosceip]

I blame the strikes for the dismal Memorial Day weekend box office. Hollywood just didn’t have the typical tent pole movie ready. Garfield and Furiosa are not the kinds of movies that can be expected to dominate the holiday weekend. I think Deadpool and Wolverine will perform well this summer, but overall the box office in 2024 is in trouble. I bet 2025 will be legit insane, though.

[@ryan8211982]

I disagree with that statement you have, pal. Daniel RPK has bunch of BS, and so are you, John.

[@Venkman406]

I appreciate the Twin Peaks reference, Rob.

[@ichiban81]

They are going to have to recast blade. The star is to old

[@KJ7JHN]

2043? 🤣

[@severanvallery9554]

Wait how can you see john cena in a movie

[@randall-thehorrorwriter]

Sterling K Brown would make a better blade in my opinion but that being said I feel they are right Ali will not be Blade.

[@chrisretzlaff2895]

Multiverse that might work, but Blade would be Killmongers dad

[@xsvrrx]

fury road - is it actually mentioned that tom hardy is Mad max? pretty sure he is never named untill the credits.

[@alexp601]

I think I remember him saying his name during the film

[@KJ7JHN]

Michael Jai White

[@michaeljeacock]

who is 6 years older than Mahershala Ali

[@PolaBurrr]

Monarc was very disappointing. A bunch of whiny young people and very little monsters

[@bajansamurai]

Interesting take, but while I wasn't thrilled by the younger characters, I really enjoyed the past portion of the story, the mythology established about the portals, and the amount of monster time portrayed in Monarch. I never expected a fiesta of monster clashes. Seemed like they even had more monster appearances than it seemed like there would have been for that type of show. Loved it!

[@alexp601]

I liked Monarch, but it definitely had some issues. The whiny main character was one of those issues. But overall it had some great moments and world building.

[@ChaseSchleich]

How long until movie theaters implement an intermission for every movie just so they can use it as an excuse to play another 15 minutes of commercials.

[@sophetchen7803]

John u realized u said blade 3 need more rewrites? Blade 3 is old u meant to say MCU blade is getting more rewrites

[@robertbowen6469]

I think, compared to the first movie, Joker is going to "flop".

[@UCanGetWitThisOrUCanGetWitThat]

Knock Godzilla out??? Lol Godzilla almost killed Kong again if Mothra didn't intervene lol