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This UT Grad Was Supposed to Direct a Marvel Blockbuster. He Made a Houston-Set Action Flick Instead.
Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother wasn’t supposed to exist. Not long ago, the new film’s director, Houston-raised University of Texas at Austin alumni Bassam Tariq, was supposed to be helming Marvel’s reboot of the superhero horror movie Blade, slated to star two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali as the titular, sword-wielding vampire hunter. That project fell apart, and Tariq found himself with space for a new project—and a leading man, in Ali, by then equipped with a year’s worth of edged-weapons training. So the pair pivoted, and now we have the result: a movie that’s a million miles away from Marvel’s Blade, except for the sword…The post This UT Grad Was Supposed to Direct a Marvel Blockbuster. He Made a Houston-Set Action Flick Instead. appeared first on Texas Monthly.