@CarolinaConect@BlockTopickz Omar was saying he should've done it before they started filming the season. He agreed that tahj should've been more, but don't holdout outta the blue
Hollywood spent 21 years pretending this didn't happen first.
Michael Jai White headlined Spawn in 1997. A Black actor leading a major comic book movie, two decades before Black Panther made the idea look brand new.
The face in this clip cost him two to four hours of makeup every shoot day. Glued-on bodysuit, yellow contacts that shredded his eyes, a mask that choked his breathing. He credited his martial arts background for surviving days most actors would have walked off.
The film was a New Line gamble. Greenlit around $20M, ballooned past $40M once early effects footage came back, because the producers believed they could match Men in Black's visuals at half the cost. It pulled roughly $88M and got buried by critics on arrival.
Now look at what it opened. Blade arrived in 1998. Luke Cage, Black Panther, the entire run of Black-led comic adaptations followed. Black Panther alone cleared $1.3 billion in 2018.
The movie people file away as a forgotten misfire was the proof of concept for one of the most valuable lanes in modern Hollywood. White carried it there first, under a mask that barely let him breathe.
@DverseMentality I knew even back then that it wasn't a wash. And that was before I knew it was actually Eminem song that he produced and Jay-Z just hopped on later. We still quote Jay-Z from that song today, I don't remember Em's outside the ice cube lyric
😳 President Donald Trump had a fiery on-air showdown during an interview on "Meet the Press" -- with things escalating to the point where he abruptly left after repeated pushback from host Kristen Welker.
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@ZariaFknLinton Cheater: "See, THIS THE SHIT I BE TALKIN BOUT. You NEVER trusted me! Just say what you gotta say."
"Damn. I was just asking if you had seen the remote. 😬😬😬"