Blade is one of the most important Marvel films in the history of modern superhero cinema. In 1998, the brutal fantasy horror hit hit the cinemas and proved that mainstream audiences could too inspire for a dark anti-hero before Spider-Man and the X-Men lured the family audience into the halls.
The film was directed by Stephen Norrington, who later also brought the comic adaptation The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to the cinema. As it turns out, Norrington wasn’t originally slated to direct the project. David Fincher also played in the Development of the film an important role.
Blade: Fight Club director David Fincher almost made the brutal Marvel film
On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, screenwriter David S. Goyer recently revealed that after filming Alien³, Fincher gave a lot of thought to what a Blade film would look like on the big screen could look.
I have with [David Fincher] a draft [für den Blade-Film] developed. I remember walking into our producer’s office. There was this huge conference table. Fincher laid 40 to 50 photo and art books with post-it notes on the table. He said, ‘This is the movie.’ Goyer was particularly impressed by one thing at the time: Fincher’s extensive preparation. He has a scene up thought out down to the smallest detail.[Fincher] took us on a two-hour tour around the aesthetics of this scene, this character. It was a like that comprehensive visual pitch. I’ve never seen anything like that. A large part [von Finchres] Thinking went into my later revisions [des Films] a.
Ultimately, Fincher’s Blade never came to fruition. Instead, in the 1990s, Fincher made the serial killer masterpiece Seven and the mindfuck thriller The Game, not to mention his most famous film: Fight Club.
New Blade film in the works: However, Marvel production has been plagued by problems for years
After we haven’t seen Blade in the cinema for over a decade, the anti-hero will soon be introduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Mahershala Ali takes on the role. But so far the project is… everything went wrong, what can go wrong. Delays due to the corona pandemic, half-baked scripts, director changes and now the Hollywood strike. The theatrical release in February 2025 is very questionable.
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