Beau DeMayo, former showrunner of the Disney+ animated series X-Men '97, is spilling tea on the script he worked on for Marvel Studios' troubled Blade reboot.
via: Dark Horizons
Blade has been in development for years and has seen a half dozen writers come and go including the likes of Michael Green (“Logan”), Nic Pizzolatto (“True Detective”), Stacy Osei-Kuffour (HBO’s “Watchmen”) and Michael Starrbury (“The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete”).
At last report Eric Pearson is penning the latest draft and the studio seems to have finally come up with a script they’re happy with. For a while there though, they appeared to be floundering.
In new postings on X, DeMayo confirms that’s the case and says he’s wondered why it has been so difficult for the studio to come up with a compelling premise:
“Take a John Wick movie. Give mobsters fangs. Swap Keanu for Ali, hand him a sword, not a daughter who makes him fret over swinging the hero’s name. ‘Wick’ cost $20 million to make. Add $10 million for vampire/Darkhold magic VFX, you have $30-40 million Marvel movie. I don’t get why it’s been so hard. Studio’s broken.”
He adds that in his three months on the project he wrote three drafts and a dozen outlines for it. He then did a deep dive on X going into the best idea he came up with:
“My favorite was a “The Raid”-style treatment where Blade finds himself defending a rundown tenement of humans from Varney’s vamp hordes until daylight.
[It] took place over one night Blade learns from tenant Jericho Drumm that Varney’s attacking because the female tenant who Blade sorta fancies has been magically impregnated with Lilith by tenants who’re secretly Darkhold Cultists. Think 30 Days of Night meets Rosemary’s Baby.”
Mahershala Ali and Mia Goth remain attached to star in the film which has yet to announce a director following the exit of Yann Demange. Locations in Mexico, the United Kingdom and in Atlanta are expected to be utilised for the shoot.
I've been saying for years that when they were talking about rebooting Blade that they should basically do The Raid with vampires. We want brutal fight sequences but with supernatural effects.
You don't need a big budget for a Blade film, which is basically a vampire hunter taking out the undead. The original John Wick cost $20 million to make.
You can make Blade for an easy $40-$60 million easy. Coming up with a concept for the film shouldn't be this complicated.
As for Mahershala Ali, if he ends up no longer attached to Blade, I say replace him with Aaron Pierre. He is excellent in Rebel Ridge on Netflix.
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