Stephen Dorff, star of “Blade” (1998), is fed up with Marvel’s “worthless rubbish” and does not hesitate to let it be known!
Stephen Dorff is not his first criticism of Marvel. In 2021, the actor, who starred alongside Wesley Snipes in 1998’s Blade, caused a stir after he told The Independent about his take on Black Widow: calling the Marvel movie “rubbish”, he added that he was “embarrassed” for its main star, Scarlett Johansson.
As Variety reports, Stephen Dorff returns to the charge today during an interview with The Daily Beast and again, he does not mince his words.
All that other trash is just embarrassing. I mean, God bless them, they make a lot of money, but their movies suck [rires]. And no one will remember. Nobody remembers Black Adam after all. I haven’t even seen that movie, it looked so bad.
According to Dorff, the future of cinema rests with new upcoming talent like director Eddie Alcazar (who directed Divinity in which he stars) and not “directing Black Adam and worthless trash over and over again.”
And we know it, Marvel is currently developing a new version of Blade for its MCU. However, not everything goes as planned: Mahershala Ali is attached to the project but the original director Bassam Tariq left the film two months before the production start date. It is now Yann Demange who is about to direct the feature film. And according to Stephen Dorff, there’s no way the MCU will top the 1998 original, directed by Steve Norrington.
“Marvel is used to me destroying them anyway. How is this Blade film for all audiences going for you, the one who can’t get a director? [rires] Because whoever agrees will be laughed at by everyone else, because we’ve done it before and we’ve done the best. There’s no Steve Norrington there.”
In this interview, Stephen Dorff also said that he would only star in movies adapted from comic books if they were more like when he started, when they made Blade, “or like the few who have been decent at the over the years, like when Nolan made The Dark Knight and reimagined Batman from Tim Burton.” The actor also adds that he “would do mainstream movies all the time if they were good.”
“If the one or two a year that happens doesn’t pick me, for whatever reason, I’m not going to lose any sleep because I wasn’t one of the 50 people in Oppenheimer. I mean, that sounds cool, but to me, unless you’re playing Oppenheimer, I don’t want to be in this movie [rires]. Unless it’s my friend’s movie, then I’ll do a scene or an appearance.”
Seen recently in Paradise City alongside Bruce Willis and John Travolta, Stephen Dorff is also showing Divinity by Eddie Alcazar, a film that is part of the official selection of Sundance 2023.