John Johnson wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 1:01 pm
Still waiting for Captain Britain...
I remember that there was an interesting rumor a while back regarding Henry Cavill meeting with Kevi n Feige about a possible role in the MCU. The speculation was CAPTAIN BRITAIN, although one must take that with a grain of salt.
CAPTAIN BRITAIN has a far different origin story than CAPTAIN AMERICA, but I could see Cavill as CB with some of those stoic qualities exhibited as Superman.
Pretty clearly Disney doesn't want to make R rated Marvel movies. Or R rated movies in general. They're doing DEADPOOL only because it's a sequel and they see the dollar signs clearly right in front of them.
So they let Ryan Reynolds do his thing -- but with BLADE, that kind of success isn't guaranteed. A couple of solid modest performers and then a flop third entry. By the time you get to BLADE TRINITY people are done with the character and that franchise.
Evidently they're having issues with tone and style. Make a PG-13 that goes light on the horror elements and you lose the hardcore audience for this movie. But make an R rated BLADE movie only for the hardcore, and you probably aren't making big money in the first place.
Add in their movies-by-committee approach and this character poses a lot of obstacles for them...
AndyDursin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 3:11 pm
Evidently they're having issues with tone and style. Make a PG-13 that goes light on the horror elements and you lose the hardcore audience for this movie. But make an R rated BLADE movie only for the hardcore, and you probably aren't making big money in the first place.
An R-rated Blade movie could make money...if Disney could make it for $100 million or less, and there's zero reason why it should cost even that much. The thing is, they're locked into their cinematic universe sh!t which no one cares about anymore, so they may as well start mixing it up and stop forcing crossover events with incompatible characters. Deadpool 3 will make money due to the most popular characters Disney stole from Fox, but will anyone care about the third go-around of the X-Men or Fantastic Four?
That's the thing. I think at this point Disney is up against it with Marvel on a downward trend and remaking X Men and FF again is going to be safe money. It'll do better than The Eternals and The Marvels but again it's diminishing returns. Clearly if they hire Cogler to do X Men get ready for some serious racial **** thrown into it too.
With Blade, thats a harder sell. How much is an R rated Blade movie making? None of the old movies cracked $100 million and the last one bombed...this isn't some franchise that's going to ever make a billion (or even a half billion) worldwide for Disney which is what their Marvel measuring stick typically is.
The other thing is nobody cared about Blade as a character in the first place. Those movies succeeded because of Snipes being a big draw at the time and the film having novelty value with the black hero and it being a relatively fresh super hero concept back then. None of that comes into play here.
I'm surprised they wanted to make this to begin with. Figured it'd be a Disney+ series.
The thing is, they're locked into their cinematic universe sh!t which no one cares about anymore, so they may as well start mixing it up and stop forcing crossover events with incompatible characters. Deadpool 3 will make money due to the most popular characters Disney stole from Fox, but will anyone care about the third go-around of the X-Men or Fantastic Four?