“Our Blade on Steroids”: Wesley Snipes Teases a New ‘Blade’-Like Project of His Own

With Marvel currently developing a feature film that will bring vampire-slayer Blade into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Stacy Osei-Kuffour is writing the script, with Mahershala Ali as the title character), you may be wondering if we’ll ever see the Wesley Snipes version of Blade on the screen again. Snipes has recently stated that he’d at least be open to appearing in Marvel’s Blade in some capacity, but it also sounds like he’s working on a companion project of his own. Speaking with Uproxx this week, Snipes teases what he’s referring to as his “Blade on steroids.”

“We think it’s going to smoke all of the Blade stuff,” Snipes starts off the conversation, referring to what sounds like two different projects that are in the works at the moment.

He continues, “We have two things. We have one which is a female action franchise. And also what we call our Blade-killer, our Blade on steroids. And we set our character in the world of shape-shifters and a little bit of time travel. But the action is going to be … Well, we did white belt action in Blade. Now we’re going to do black belt action.”

“It’s wonderful what we did, but, brother, we’re so much better than we were then. So much better now than we were then,” Snipes adds. “And we’ve got more tools. Some of the things that were innovated in the Blade franchise in the first film are now standard in the Marvel universe and all of these other action movies. And the technology allows them to do a lot of things we couldn’t do then. Now give us the technology, and we’ve already got the skills and the flavor. It’s popping, baby!”

At this time we have nothing further to report about either of these projects, but it sounds like Snipes isn’t sitting around waiting for a call from Marvel. With the MCU hard at work on moving past the original big screen incarnation of the iconic Marvel Comics character, Snipes looks to take matters into his own hands and bring a whole new Blade-like hero to the screen.

You love to see it, as the kids say.

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