• feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    No it’s someone called Mahershala Ali. With the sunglasses on he does actually look quite a lot like a young Wesley Snipes.

    • smokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      the last I heard of Blade was that it was going to be a cut-rate production and that “the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons, with Blade relegated to the fourth lead” but that was apparently dropped? I don’t follow Disney/MCU like at all, but I came across this story and it stuck with me because it was kinda bizarre.

      https://comicbook.com/movies/news/marvel-blade-movie-budget-changes-female-led-story/

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        4 months ago

        I heard that, too, but it’s changed writers like 3-4 times so it’s probably different now lol.

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      4 months ago

      young Wesley Snipes

      That’s incredibly generous. The guy’s already 50 years old. 15 years older than Snipes was in the original Blade!

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        4 months ago

        I think I’m referring more to his face shape. Like Wesley Snipes’ face shape changed as he got older. But I also didn’t realise the new guy was 50, Hollywood is a crazy place.