Mahershala Ali's Blade Is Already Very Different Than Wesley Snipes' Version
Mahershala Ali’s Blade is sure to be different from previous movies featuring Wesley Snipes' version of the title character. Blade last appeared on the big screen in Blade Trinity, the final installment of New Line Cinema's Wesley Snipes-led trilogy, back in 2004. Nearly two decades later, a new incarnation starring Ali as the Dhampir vampire hunter will be the focus of a standalone movie from Marvel Studios. A release date has yet to be announced, but many anticipate that it will fill an empty slot available in the studio's schedule at the end of 2023.
Ali’s Blade has already made his MCU debut at the end of Chloe Zhao's 2021 movie Eternals. The character's voice can be heard warning Kit Harrington’s Dane Whitman (a.k.a. Black Knight) of the dangerous powers of the sword known as the Ebony Blade. However, this provided scant evidence as to what audiences can expect from the first full appearance of the new film version of Blade. Now that Disney owns the property, the company is likely to alter the comic book source material to make the horror-superhero character mesh with the overall tone of the MCU franchise.
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Although the MCU has had its fair share of violence, each movie made for the franchise so far has maintained a PG-13 rating. In contrst, the Wesley Snipes Blade trilogy is dark and gruesome, with all three installments earning an R-rating for blood and violence (among other things). That blood-soaked aesthetic would be rather jarring when juxtaposed against the rest of the MCU, and its grotesque and terrifying creatures may be too much for younger audiences of the Marvel Studios movies. This makes it likely that Ali’s Blade will be tamer, by comparison, to ensure
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