Wesley Snipes plans ‘Blade-killer’ film with shape-shifters and martial arts

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

A couple days ago, Blade (watch it HERE) star Wesley Snipes told Entertainment Tonight that he is "one thousand percent supportive" of the Blade reboot that it's the works at Marvel with Mahershala Ali taking on the title role, and that he would be open to making a cameo in the film "under the right circumstances".

Snipes doesn't currently have any connection to the new Blade film, but he told Uproxx that he's working on a project that he feels is going to "smoke all of the Blade stuff" he did. Speaking of his Blade movies, Snipes said, 

We were white belts then. Wait until you see now what we do as black belts. … (We have) 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 (on Blade), but, brother, we’re so much better than we were then. So much better now than we were then. Yes, indeed. 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!"

Snipes promised the Uproxx interviewer, 

You won’t be disappointed, mark my word. You’ll me call me back and you’ll be like, 'Yo, doc, you said this.' Yeah, man. If we’re not better, shame on us."

Snipes getting mixed up in some black belt action in a movie that involves shape-shifters and time travel sounds like a winning combination to me.