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    Blacula Reboot/Blacula2 Is In Development At MGM
    I don't really know anything about the original I thought it was a comedy just going by the title.

    https://screenrant.com/blacula-reboo...t-mgm-details/

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    For a sec, I thought the title was "Blacula Robot" ... which could also be an interesting idea...
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    The original was about an African prince who, after trying to end the slave trade, pisses off Dracula, gets turned into a vampire, gets locked up for 200 years, is awakened by an interracial gay couple, and then conducts a bloody rampage within the seedy parts of Los Angeles.

    Racist white people hated it, so it must have been doing something right.
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    They got some big shoes to fill casting wise. The original dude was on some shakespearian ****. Wonder what's next? Blackenstien?

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    No, no. Say it’s not so

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    Quote Originally Posted by CliffHanger2 View Post
    They got some big shoes to fill casting wise. The original dude was on some shakespearian ****. Wonder what's next? Blackenstien?
    That was William Marshall AKA The King of Cartoons from Pee Wee's Playhouse. He did a lot of Broadway and was at one point blacklisted by Hollywood.

    While we did get Blackenstien-we almost got Black the Ripper. Sadly the guy who did Blackenstien and wrote that script was murdered at his home.

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    Quote Originally Posted by luprki View Post
    No, no. Say it’s not so
    Why don't you want this?

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    blacula was a black exploitation 70s movie.not sure that kind of movie will fly in today's climate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skyvolt2000 View Post
    That was William Marshall AKA The King of Cartoons from Pee Wee's Playhouse. He did a lot of Broadway and was at one point blacklisted by Hollywood.
    Before Blacula, he was Dr. Richard Daystrom from the original Star Trek second season episode, "The Ultimate Computer".

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    Quote Originally Posted by skyvolt2000 View Post
    That was William Marshall AKA The King of Cartoons from Pee Wee's Playhouse. He did a lot of Broadway and was at one point blacklisted by Hollywood.

    While we did get Blackenstien-we almost got Black the Ripper. Sadly the guy who did Blackenstien and wrote that script was murdered at his home.
    Damn...murdered? That's some true hollywood story ****. Props to Mr. Marshall he brought his A Game to any role.

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    i feel like trying to recreate the cheesy/schlocky exploitation movies from decades ago doesnt usually turn out well

    that said i guess capitalizing on the remake trend would make it a modern day exploitation movie so hopefully it works out

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    Well, no idea if the movie is going to be any good but the ocean of insane comments and videos it's going to spawn all over the net sure will be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by choptop View Post
    Blacula Reboot/Blacula2 Is In Development At MGM
    I don't really know anything about the original I thought it was a comedy just going by the title.

    https://screenrant.com/blacula-reboo...t-mgm-details/
    I definitely recommend checking out the original - you're wrong about it being a comedy, it was a blaxplotation film but they played it straight and the actor really elevated the picture. Now whether a reboot can live up to it? Probably not, but you never know.

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    Marvel fans, he was also Juggernaut's voice (and Tony Stark) in separate episodes of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83WxHcDWGSE


    Well... I'll get this comment out of the way.. This is going to potentially compete for space with MCU Blade, whenever that project gets going.

    I hope that they get someone tall and imposing like Marshall. I'm not sold on the post-pandemic setting angle.

    The original kind of glossed over what country/tribe Mamuwalde was from, where he was educated, and how he came to have an audience with Count Dracula in the effort to resist the slavery trade (and colonialism?).

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    I saw both flicks, BLACULA and SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM awhile back when aired on Epix Drive-In. When the channel used to run more stuff along the B-Side of things,and had fun with it. I thought both movies were decent, and Marshall's performance as the title character was awesome as well. The only scene I thought was goofy, but actually was intended to be funny was a scene in the second film. Where Blacula was attending a party, of African art in search of a voodoo practitioner who he'd hope would lift his curse. He leaves said party, and out side turns into a bat ,and flies off. All witnessed by a party goer who had a little too much to drink, and was sobering up. After seeing Blacula depart, he's quiet for a beat, and says,"Shiiiiiiiiiiittttt."

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