Marvel Studios’ Blade reboot is a long way from filming, but director Yann Demange has already teased ways the film will push new boundaries within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.In a recent interview with Deadline to promote his short film, Dammi, which played at the Toronto Film Festival, Demange was asked about the forthcoming Blade reboot. The film has received countless delays due to both the Writer’s Guild of America strike and the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, but Demange remains positive regarding the project. Per the director, the reboot will not only allow leading man Mahershala Ali a chance to showcase a ferocity on screen, but it will also reportedly be R-rated. “They gave me the R, which is so important,” he said.The director went on to praise Ali, calling him a deep actor before noting the two of them are ready to have fun with the film. “For Blade, we are going to have fun because Mahershala is such a deep actor. I’m excited to show a kind of ruthlessness, a roughness he has, that allows him to walk the earth in a particular way,” he explained. “I love him for that. He’s got a dignity and integrity, but there is a ferocity there that he usually keeps under the surface. I want to unleash that and put it on the screen.”The Book of Eli Co-Director Reveals Why He Passed on Blade Reboot
Marvel Studios’ Blade reboot is a long way from filming, but director Yann Demange has already teased ways the film will push new boundaries within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In a recent interview with Deadline to promote his short film, Dammi, which played at the Toronto Film Festival, Demange was asked about the forthcoming Blade reboot. The film has received countless delays due to both the Writer’s Guild of America strike and the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, but Demange remains positive regarding the project. Per the director, the reboot will not only allow leading man Mahershala Ali a chance to showcase a ferocity on screen, but it will also reportedly be R-rated. “They gave me the R, which is so important,” he said.
The director went on to praise Ali, calling him a deep actor before noting the two of them are ready to have fun with the film. “For Blade, we are going to have fun because Mahershala is such a deep actor. I’m excited to show a kind of ruthlessness, a roughness he has, that allows him to walk the earth in a particular way,” he explained. “I love him for that. He’s got a dignity and integrity, but there is a ferocity there that he usually keeps under the surface. I want to unleash that and put it on the screen.”
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