Movies get stuck in development hell all the time. It took 12 years of development for the first Spider-Man movie to reach the screen. So delays or director departures don't necessarily prove that a movie won't eventually get made.
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Movies get stuck in development hell all the time. It took 12 years of development for the first Spider-Man movie to reach the screen. So delays or director departures don't necessarily prove that a movie won't eventually get made.
Keep drinking the kool-aid.
I bet you're at pleasant parties. Not.
Why.
Keep.
Beating.
That.
Drum?
Seriously. You always go out of your way to post the negative news around here (not just this thread, but also frequently this thread).
Indeed. We don't have a full picture of what's going on here. Anything speculative is exactly that: Speculative.
Not to be pedantic, but it's "flout".
Right. All we know is that they are still paying people to work on this. Sounds still like a go.
Mahershala Ali was 45 when the film was announced and turned 50 this year. I do wonder how long he’s willing to hang around to a role that’s likely to be so physically active, especially if sequels are lined up.
I really think someone should send Kevin Feige the contact numbers for David Goyer and Guillermo Del Toro at this stage. I’m sure Steven Norrington is free too.
I really think someone should send Kevin Feige the contact numbers for David Goyer and Guillermo Del Toro at this stage. I’m sure Steven Norrington is free too.
Life can change and there are never guarantees, etc, etc, but Ali went to Marvel to ask for this role, not the other way around. I doubt he would walk away just because it's taking longer than expected.
Mahershala Ali's attorney, Shelby Weiser, on the delayed production of 'BLADE':
"That deal was in 2019, and they still haven’t shot it, which is pretty much the craziest thing in my professional experience."
https://x.com/MCUFilmNews/status/1801610984207041006?s=19
"That deal was in 2019, and they still haven’t shot it, which is pretty much the craziest thing in my professional experience."
https://x.com/MCUFilmNews/status/1801610984207041006?s=19
As I said on another forum:
I don't know if it's weird or a flex that a Hollywood lawyer has never experienced development hell before.
The movie shouldn't be this hard to make, but let's not pretend five years is any sort of record. Plenty of movies have taken longer, and done so without the excuse of a multi-year pandemic followed by a major industry strike.
I don't know if it's weird or a flex that a Hollywood lawyer has never experienced development hell before.
The movie shouldn't be this hard to make, but let's not pretend five years is any sort of record. Plenty of movies have taken longer, and done so without the excuse of a multi-year pandemic followed by a major industry strike.
Odd thing to say, since movies do get delayed for years all the time. Maybe he's speaking in terms of an actor being held to a contract for an unfilmed movie for that long, but surely there's precedent for that. The 2021 Black Widow film was in the early stages of development by early 2014 and was developed in earnest starting in 2017. Although the difference there is that they were actually using Scarlett Johannson in other films that whole time, while Ali has been sitting on the sidelines aside from a voice cameo in Eternals.
Presumably that's the issue - he must be contracted for the movie and can't get out of it, but they keep putting the production back, presumably this could have some sort of impact on other work he might wish to take. Production Hell wouldn't be a surprise, but having Ali contracted for a role and unable to get out of the contract for over half a decade could be what the lawyer is referring to.
Not sure how it's supposed to be negatively affecting his other work when he's been in multiple other films since Eternals and is filming Jurassic World 4 right now.
Working around actors' schedules is what movie productions do. All Blade getting delayed means in that respect is that anytime they want to push the movie back they have to account for Ali's schedule before they set the new date. And based on most other examples I've ever seen, if it ever happened that they absolutely could not accomodate his schedule due to changes they made, then he'd be entirely free to bow out and do the other movies he already committed to instead.
Except it's not uncommon for an actor to shoot one movie while under contract for the next one. Shooting schedules are often determined based partly on when an actor will become available. And Ali has starred in two feature films in the past three years, in addition to his voice work in Spider-Verse. So it's not like he's being prevented from working elsewhere. I'm not sure what the issue is.
I suppose one could say that in today's climate, with franchise movies being churned out all the time, it's quite weird to have one in the pipelines for so long.
But yes, on the whole, there's nothing odd about it .
Is it? The last Star Trek movie was eight years ago and they're still developing the next one. There were five years between the last two Mission: Impossible movies.
Not to mention that the MCU isn't just one series, it's a bunch of series sharing a universe. They can afford to delay one project as long as it needs, because they've got others to fill the gap if need be.
Exra Miller's Flash movie says "Remember me?"
1 month shy of it taking 10 years from the big announcement of DCUs slate of movies to premier.
About 7 years off of their intended initial release day.
This isn’t a brilliant advertisement for delaying a film, TBF
Who ever said delaying a film is good for advertising? It's just part of the process sometimes is the only point. Adding another example to help correct the assumption that franchise movies don't do this.