‘Blade’ (1998) actor assures Marvel’s reboot will be ‘a complete tease’

It’s been more than 20 years since ‘Lama’ hit theaters in 1998 and Marvel Studios are currently planning a reboot featuring the character, though the actor Stephen Dorffwho participated in the original version, assures that this new story will be a failure and calls it a trash that will not be able to surpass that of 25 years ago.

In interview for The daily beastactor Stephen Dorff, who appeared in the film ‘Blade’, has rebelled again Marvel Studiosthough this time he didn’t say anything about Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Black Widow’ like some time ago but he directly attacks the reboot of this comic book based movie.

Speaking of the new film ‘Bucket’ that Marvel is preparing within the MCU, the actor laughs and says: “we’ve done it before and we’ve done it better”, referring to the work in which he participated in the version arrived at the cinema a few years ago 25 years, which is not part of the stories set on Earth 616 of the multiverse saga.

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All this other bullshit is just embarrassing, you know what I mean? I mean, God bless them, they’re making a ton of money, but their movies suck, said Marvel’s Stephen Dorff.

As if that weren’t enough, the ‘Blade’ actor also attacks the work of DC and superhero films in general: “no one will remember them. Nobody remembers Black Adam at the end of the day. I haven’t even seen that movie, it looked so bad,” making it clear that her anger at him isn’t directly against a movie reboot he’s been in.

However, the actor Stephen Dorff says he wouldn’t turn down the idea of ​​being in a superhero moviebut for that there would have to be a shift from his perspective, and he explains it like this: “If comic book movies were more like when I started when we did ‘Blade'”, also taking Christopher’s ‘The Dark Knight’ as a reference to Nolan or Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Hellboy’.

Marvel continues to work on ‘Bucket’

Although the character did not appear on camera, lama the vampire slayer He was already present in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, most notably in the post-credits scene of “Eternals” where actor Mahershala Ali recorded a line to clarify that his character will be important in the saga of the Marvel multiverse.

The release of the film ‘Blade’ is scheduled for 2024, so there is still plenty of time to see the debut of this character within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which will have nothing to do with the version presented in 1998 in which Stephen Dorff participated as Deacon Frost and Wesley Snipes in the lead role.