MCU: 10 Fan Ideas Better Than What Marvel Have Planned
7. A New Blade Film
Marvel Comics
There are a whole host of ways to bring Blade back to the big-screen, but while Marvel are yet to lend weight to rumours that a reboot is in production, fans have been eager to plan ahead for how the daywalker could be introduced to the MCU.
Seeing as how the character doesn't exactly lend himself well to the MCU's more mainstream elements, with an R-rating the only proper way to go about adapting the character to the big screen, any Blade production would have to be Marvel's most ambitious yet. Mature comic book capers might be in right now, but it's a path yet to be ventured by Marvel Studios, with only Marvel TV having taken the mature route for productions on Netflix.
It needn't be a fraught path however, and while there are plenty of other ideas Marvel could prioritise to keep to their PG-13 formula, it's important to remember that Blade kickstarted the comic book genre as we know it today. It was also wildly successful, spawning two sequels (one good, the other not so much), a TV show and a spot in pop-culture as Marvel's preeminent supernatural character. (Sorry, Ghost Rider.)
Blade has all the trappings of a tentpole MCU feature. If it's not top of Marvel's priorities, then something is very clearly wrong.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
