Summary
- Blade: Trine’s original post-apocalyptic concept could be the key to a successful 2025 MCU reboot.
- The MCU’s Blade movie has faced multiple setbacks, but a simplified post-apocalyptic setting may be the answer.
- Blade could transition into the mainline Marvel Universe through the events of Avengers: Secret Wars, offering a unique twist.
Initial publicity Blade: Trinity There are a few ideas that could be the perfect way for the MCU to reboot the series in 2025. Blade The film was first announced in 2019, starring Mahershala Ali as a vampire hunter. However, despite initial excitement about the news, Blade Development has proven to be far more difficult than expected. The upcoming MCU film has gone through four different writing teams, including Stacy Osei-Kuffour, X-Men ’97 Creator Beau DeMayo, True DetectiveNic Pizzolatto and Michael Starrbury of , and finally Michael Green.
Michael Green will be BladeThe original director, Bassam Tariq, was replaced by Yann Demange. BladeThe production is much more difficult than the original Blade The trilogy, which stars Wesley Snipes as Eric Brooks/Blade Runner, includes 1998’s Blade,year 2002 Blade IIand 2004 Blade: Trinity. Although the latter film will have been released for 20 years in 2024, Blade: TrinityThe original story idea might just be the MCU’s way to make a great Blade Reboot.
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David S. Goyer Reveals Blade: Trinity Was Almost Completely Different
Blade: Trinity Was Almost a Post-Apocalyptic Marvel Movie
Original Blade The trilogy was created by David S. Goyer, who wrote and directed the film Blade: Trinity. In a record come quickly Starting in 2004, Goyer’s initial plans Blade: Trinity Overview. As Goyer revealed, his first thought was Blade: Trinity The film is set in a post-apocalyptic future. The film was originally adapted from I am a legendthe 1954 novel that popularized modern depictions of vampires and zombies in the media.
Movie | US release date | director | screenwriter | manufacturer | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blade | August 21, 1998 | Stephen Norrington | David S. Goyer | Peter Frankfurt, Wesley Snipes and Robert Engelman | ||
Blade II | March 22, 2002 | Guillermo del Toro | Peter Frankfurt, Wesley Snipes and Patrick Palmer | |||
Blade: Trinity | December 8, 2004 | David S. Goyer | Peter Frankfurt, Wesley Snipes, David S. Goyer and Lynn Harris | |||
In Goyer’s original conception, Blade would live in a post-apocalyptic world where vampires have become the most powerful race on Earth. Due to Eric Brooks’ half-vampire characteristics, he would age more slowly and live in a world where humans lived in camps to provide food for the vampires. The vampires would release a virus into the air that would cause sunlight to only shine for two hours a day, allowing these creatures who dwell in darkness to be freer.
However, Goyer later abandoned the idea because he felt Blade The film was inspired by Brooks’ real-world premise. Nevertheless, some of these ideas did make it into film. Blade: TrinityOne of the concepts is Blade: TrinityEvil vampires will build “blood farms” to imprison humans for them to suck. In addition, the concept of virus is rewritten as Daystar virus Blade: Trinityand eventually killed all the vampires on Earth.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Blade Could Be Set in an Apocalyptic Setting
Although some initial thoughts Blade: Trinity The script may not be suitable for the MCU, the post-apocalyptic concept Blade The movie is simple, suitable for a reboot. A more general question surrounding the MCU Blade And its numerous production problems have left audiences asking why it is so hard to make a movie about a protagonist hunting vampires. Of course, the various screenwriters associated with the MCU Blade Wanting to build upon Eric Brooks’ simplified story of hunting down a blood-sucking enemy and bring their voices, themes, and deeper elements into the film.
Still, the many problems faced by the film have led many to call for a simplified version Blade In the MCU. In the context of the end of the world, Blade could provide that. The film could take advantage of the MCU multiverse by setting it in its own self-contained universe, with Brooks traveling across desolate lands to thwart the plans of his vampire enemies. This would simplify the story down to the bare essentials that audiences want, while avoiding the pitfall of having to tie into pre-established MCU lore.
Blade could still be in the mainline MCU
An upcoming MCU movie will transition Blade into the series’ main continuity
Although BladeThe theoretical parallel universe setting may disappoint those who hope the character will be part of the MCU, but an upcoming movie may make both scenarios possible. Blade A standalone story could be told that focuses on what makes the character so great, fleshing him out and making him sympathetic to the MCU audience. Afterwards, Blade could be brought into the mainline MCU via the events of 2027. Avengers: Secret Wars story. Avengers: Secret Wars is expected to follow the plot of its eponymous comic book, at least in terms of bringing together several aspects of the MCU’s multiverse.
BladeTheoretical universes could collide with other universes Avengers: Secret Wars The movie ends with him and his vampire nemesis appearing in the main MCU. This not only provides Blade with the advantage of being a character in the rest of the MCU, but also provides an origin story for the MCU vampires, thus explaining why they hadn’t appeared in the series before that point. This basically makes Blade Reverse Logan, It ties in neatly with screenwriter Michael Green’s story, where the characters first have their own independent stories before being thrust into a universe to inhabit.
Blade: Trinity
In Blade: Trinity, Wesley Snipes’ Daywalker returns for the final time to battle Dracula himself. This time, Eric Brooks teams up with his friends Whistler’s daughter Abigail (Jessica Biel) and former vampire Hannibal King (Ryan Reynolds) to form the vampire hunting team “The Daywalkers” to stop Danica Talos (Parker Posey) and end the war between humans and vampires once and for all.
Director David S. Goyer
Release Date December 8, 2004
Screenwriters: David S. Goyer, Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan
Duration: 123 minutes