Anyone still hyped over the Blade reboot coming from Marvel despite its troubled production had better sit down to read this because the news isn’t about to get much better.
If how many times the movie has been delayed and all of the issues that keep plaguing production aren’t enough to make you cry the film’s rumored budget is bound to do the trick. Guess what Variety reports the rumored budget for the movie will be? Did you guess less than $100 million because I certainly wouldn’t have.
An optimistic person would suggest this is Marvel simply pulling back on their spending and focusing on trying to tell good stories — Iron Man only had a budget of $140 million and it essentially launched the MCU, right? That optimistic person lacks the context for just how much chaos is rumored to be taking place behind the scenes at Marvel Studios.
Just ignoring the fact that Marvel not even have Blade be the main star in his own film?
To give Marvel a bit of credit, Oscar-nominated writer Michael Green has been brought on to work on the script for the film and he did make movie magic with Logan on a budget of $97 million. But it’s hard to feel like Marvel has faith in Blade when even that crummy spin-off of Jim Carry’s Bruce Almighty — that I’m positive you’ll be searching the name of after reading this because you can’t even the title — had a $175 million budget.
When even fans are questioning if like Warner Brothers did with Batgirl.
Blade is currently set to release in 2025, if it ever sees the light of day at all.
Published: Nov 1, 2023 12:18 pm