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Badass Fan Poster Casts Jamie Foxx as Blade
We figure it’s only a matter of time before vampire-slayer Blade, played by Wesley Snipes in the film franchise, is brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After all, Blade is a Marvel Comics character, so one would have to imagine that he’ll someday be joining the fun either on the big screen or the small one.
Recently, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige noted that “it would be fun to do something with [Blade] one day,” which was just enough of a tease to inspire artist Boss Logic to put his talents to the test. Boss Logic is known for whipping up super cool fan art that imagines actors in either roles they’ve just been cast in or ones he’d like to see them cast in, and his latest piece falls into the latter category.
He imagines Jamie Foxx as Blade, and god damn is the art badass.
Again, there are no current plans in motion to bring Blade into the MCU, nor has Jamie Foxx’s name ever even been mentioned in relation to the character (Anthony Mackie has, however, expressed interest in the role), but sometimes fan art like this is enough to scratch the itch just a little bit.
Check it out below and let us know what you think of Foxx as Blade!
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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