KRYPTON Actor Aaron Pierre Joins Marvel's BLADE
Krypton alum Aaron Pierre is set to star alongside Mahershala Ali in Marvel’s upcoming Blade. Pierre also joins the previously cast Delroy Lindo. While Ali is taking on the title role, we don’t know who the other actors are playing.
The dark vampire action-adventure Marvel movie is being directed by Bassam Tariq (Mogul Mowgli) with Watchmen writer Stacy Osei-Kuffour, who is working on the script.
When previously discussing the film, Tariq shared, "What I will say it's like, it's not that I felt it was, I didn't think that this was gonna happen. You know what I mean? Just to be very honest, I'm honored, and it's a privilege. I'm here in service of Staci Osei-Kuffour, who is the incredible writer that's writing the film. She wrote on Watchmen, she wrote also Pen15 and Power and The Morning Show, she's just a phenomenal presence and a juggernaut in her own right, and Mahershala. For me, it's really working in their service, and I think that's how I'm trying to take it day by day because, to think of anything more is tough."
Tariq went on to talk about how Marvel takes "big swings for a big studio," and said, “I can't say anything about it, but I'm so excited about what we're doing, like I'm so excited ... and I can't wait." The filmmaker went on to talk about the Blade character, saying, "What I can tease about it is that we care about character, it's very important for me, and character is something that ... I don't think of genre, I think of character, and where our character has to go is gonna be really important."
He later discussed how there’s no real Blade canon that he feels he needs to follow, saying, "What's so great is it's not as boxed in as I think people imagine it to be, which I thought it was. But it's quite exciting. And I think the reality is there’s no Blade canon. If you ever read the comics, they're always changing. ‘Oh it's this story, it's this story.' What's the canon? It's not like Peter Parker. His name is Peter Parker. In some comics, his name is Fred H. Blade, you know, instead of Eric Brooks. So it's an interesting thing. Unfortunately, the runs never lasted that long, and there have been some interesting and exciting waves. But I can say it's character first."
I can’t wait to see how this movie turns out. I really hope marvel goes crazy with it and gives us something a little darker than what they’ve already produced. After all, this is a vampire movie we’re talking about here. Whatever they end up doing, it’ll be nice just to get another good story from the studio.
Source: Deadline