Thursday 13 June 2024

Kyle Marquis's BLADE

Reacting to the Blade director news, Night Road and Book Of Hungry Names writer Kyle Marquis:

Any mid urban fantasy author could bang out a decent script for this in a weekend. You even have Tomb of Dracula for the storyboard. The entire Hollywood production system has fallen apart.

You can get Jason Carl, the Matt Mercer of fangy bitey stuff, and have him do a four-hour 1-on-1 actual play with the Hunter: The Reckoning rules, you trim it a little, and you'll have a great script.

Tight 90, no origin scene, just Blade solving a vampire mystery. Opening fight, vampire boardroom for plot-backfill, Blade finds a clue, cool set with a fight, back to the vampire boardroom, next location's a chase, talky well-shot scene (romance?), kidnapping/explosion/twist, final fight. Done.

The biggest problem (is my lead cool enough to be Blade?) is already solved. Who hasn't been in the MCU who can play a villain? Get me Billy Dee Williams as Lucas Cross and Alyson Hannigan as Lilith.

Morgan Davie:
*Kevin Feige voice* also we need you to put Man-Thing in the story, and set up the Young Avengers, and also Madisynn from She-Hulk, and the climax Needs to feature theNegative Zone…*

Kyle Marquis:
Yeah, I wouldn't surprised if the problem is that the execs want to turn it into an advertisement for the next movie and they've run out of ways to hide the fact that all the movies are advertisements.

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