07/12/2023
Bounding Into Comics is no friend to Disney, so this has to be true. It sounds very much like people they've been hiring on are going behind the backs of top executives and sabotaging scripts on various projects, as suspected.
Wonder who would be arrogant enough? Think back to all of Harvard and Stanford brightest, marching through the streets, yelling about beheadings. Talk about Tools On Tap. I'm actually more shocked that I've been pronouncing Kevin Feige's last name wrong, then any of this.
"Speaking to the topic of Blade during the November 1st episode of his and film critic John Rocha’s The Hot Mic live show, Sneider informed his co-host that while he was unsure if Siegel’s description of the film’s current state was “100% accurate”, he was aware that “the executive who is working on Blade basically tried to obscure what was going to be in this draft from [the film’s writer] Stacy Osei-Kuffour.”
“He either tried to intentionally obfuscate what the draft was going to entail,” said Sneider. “Another source put it as he didn’t sound the alarm on the process and what trouble the project was in.”
To this end, the reporter then divulged, “And they’ve been, I’m told, that he was fired.”
“Another source said it was a parting of the ways,” Sneider noted. “I push back against that because I’m like, ‘Who leaves Marvel?’, right? It’s the dream job for most geek executives. I don’t think a lot of people are leaving on their own accord.”
He further detailed how, “My source said, and you know Marvel didn’t comment on anything like this, but they said it’s one of the few times that anyone has actually ever heard Kevin Feige yell at someone. That was the quote. We could change that to ‘raised voice’, but it was one of the few times that this individual had heard Kevin ever raise his voice.”
Drawing his scoop to a close, Sneider asserted, “So the executive on Blade – who I’m not going to name, you can maybe figure out who it is – is no longer with Marvel. And that is confirmed.”
Blade has no time for small talk in Wolverine vs. Blade Special Vol. 1 #1 (2019), Marvel Comics. Words by Marc Guggenheim, art by Dave Wilkins and Travis Lanham.
Returning to the now-former Marvel executive’s exit following a brief discussion regarding the state of Blade‘s ongoing rehab, Sneider further detailed, “It was interesting you know about that executive. I called Marvel and asked to speak with [the executive] before going on the air with this story and the person who answered the phone said ‘He’s no longer with the company’, and then they were like, ‘Oh wait, uh, actually, he’s working somewhere else, from a different location.”
“And I was like, that was a weird thing to say,” he opined. “I gave that person a chance to comment, and I just haven’t heard back prior to going on here.”
As to the synopsis of Blade‘s most recent draft provided by Siegel, Sneider would note that, among his sources, “there was push back that that it wasn’t necessarily going to be three women.”
“Yes, there there were drafts where I think that there were strong female characters,” he elaborated. “You could call them lead characters in a sense – you know, what is a lead, and where do we draw the line? – but I think in those drafts Blade was still very much a lead character. I don’t think he was relegated to the fourth lead or that the focus was on anywhere but Blade, but maybe it was Blade and, you know, two strong female characters or whatever it was.”
Sneider concluded, “So I think that there’s you know truth to that element it, but does that make sense to anybody that that someone would get hired to write a Blade movie and Blade would be the fourth character?”
“You know I kind of have to go with [Michael] Starrburry on this, especially if he’s seen all the drafts, right?” he ultimately argued, making reference to the named screenwriter’s recent denial of Siegel’s report. “I don’t know which writer he was in the process – I think that they’re at number six right now, so I don’t know if he was three, or four, or five – but, yeah, it just seems a little farfetched and a little outlandish, but I don’t know. I don’t have Tatiana sources.”
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