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With Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday releasing this year, there’s been a lot of Marvel movie talk! There’s so much hype around the two new movies coming up that fans may have forgotten about a project that should’ve been.
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It was seven years ago, in July of 2019, when Marvel announced that a Blade movie starring Mahershala Ali would be coming. Marvel fans lost hope in the project with each passing year, and now it looks like the movie has been completely scrapped.
The president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, has expressed his disappointment over the failed Blade reboot that was supposed to star Mahershala Ali. Feige was recently on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, and started, “I am feeling like a gigantic loser and failure that we didn’t get off the ground with Mahershala.”
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Kevin Feige did reflect back on 2024’s Deadpool and Wolverine, saying it was “very exciting” to have Wesley Snipes reprise his role as Blade. However, it doesn’t take away from the unfortunate reality that there won’t be a reboot. At least not in the foreseeable future.
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After Marvel announced the Blade reboot in July 2019, it was said that Bassam Tariq was going to direct the project. However, he exited in September 2022, roughly two months before it was set to begin shooting. “Several screenwriters came and went during development, from Watchmen scribe Stacy Osei-Kuffour to Michael Starrbury. Yann Demange stepped in as the movie’s director after Tariq’s exit, but Demange ended up dropping out in June 2024,” according to Variety.
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It was actually reported by Variety in November 2023 that Blade had already gone through at least five writers. Speculation at the time said that “Marvel was still looking to make the film but on a budget of less than $100 million.” Eventually, Marvel took Blade off its release calendar in fall 2024. It was never an issue with Mahershala Ali, as the popular actor told Variety, “I’m ready. Let them know I’m ready,” on the Jurassic World Rebirth red carpet.
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Kevin Feige said a big reason Blade kept getting delayed was also Marvel’s “over-expansion” into Disney+ streaming content where “for the very first time ever, quantity trumped quality.”
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Feige explained, “We didn’t want to simply just put a leather outfit on him and have him start killing vampires. It had to be unique.” He continued, “It fell into the time when we started pulling back and saying, ‘Only accept insanely great.’ And it wasn’t ‘insanely great’ at the time. We didn’t feel like, as we often do, you can have a good script and make it a great script through production. We didn’t feel confident that we could do that on ‘Blade,’ and we didn’t want to do that to Mahershala and didn’t want to do that to us.”
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Marvel has put its focus on wrapping up the Multiverse Saga and moving on to a complete reboot of the MCU eventually. The Avengers: Doomsday trailer just dropped, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day releases on July 31st. Although it stinks to not get Blade, fans have their head elsewhere at the moment. Who knows, maybe a Blade movie comes in the future when the MCU resets. Be sure to keep following Magical Guides for more news and updates.
Do you wish we got a Blade movie? Let us know in the comments!
©Deadline
It was seven years ago, in July of 2019, when Marvel announced that a Blade movie starring Mahershala Ali would be coming. Marvel fans lost hope in the project with each passing year, and now it looks like the movie has been completely scrapped.
The president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, has expressed his disappointment over the failed Blade reboot that was supposed to star Mahershala Ali. Feige was recently on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, and started, “I am feeling like a gigantic loser and failure that we didn’t get off the ground with Mahershala.”
©Variety
Kevin Feige did reflect back on 2024’s Deadpool and Wolverine, saying it was “very exciting” to have Wesley Snipes reprise his role as Blade. However, it doesn’t take away from the unfortunate reality that there won’t be a reboot. At least not in the foreseeable future.
©IMDb
After Marvel announced the Blade reboot in July 2019, it was said that Bassam Tariq was going to direct the project. However, he exited in September 2022, roughly two months before it was set to begin shooting. “Several screenwriters came and went during development, from Watchmen scribe Stacy Osei-Kuffour to Michael Starrbury. Yann Demange stepped in as the movie’s director after Tariq’s exit, but Demange ended up dropping out in June 2024,” according to Variety.
©Variety
It was actually reported by Variety in November 2023 that Blade had already gone through at least five writers. Speculation at the time said that “Marvel was still looking to make the film but on a budget of less than $100 million.” Eventually, Marvel took Blade off its release calendar in fall 2024. It was never an issue with Mahershala Ali, as the popular actor told Variety, “I’m ready. Let them know I’m ready,” on the Jurassic World Rebirth red carpet.
©Marvel
Kevin Feige said a big reason Blade kept getting delayed was also Marvel’s “over-expansion” into Disney+ streaming content where “for the very first time ever, quantity trumped quality.”
©Disney
Feige explained, “We didn’t want to simply just put a leather outfit on him and have him start killing vampires. It had to be unique.” He continued, “It fell into the time when we started pulling back and saying, ‘Only accept insanely great.’ And it wasn’t ‘insanely great’ at the time. We didn’t feel like, as we often do, you can have a good script and make it a great script through production. We didn’t feel confident that we could do that on ‘Blade,’ and we didn’t want to do that to Mahershala and didn’t want to do that to us.”
©Disney
Marvel has put its focus on wrapping up the Multiverse Saga and moving on to a complete reboot of the MCU eventually. The Avengers: Doomsday trailer just dropped, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day releases on July 31st. Although it stinks to not get Blade, fans have their head elsewhere at the moment. Who knows, maybe a Blade movie comes in the future when the MCU resets. Be sure to keep following Magical Guides for more news and updates.
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