After nearly six and a half of ice skating up hill, Marvel Studios has made a decision on what to do with Mahershala Ali‘s Blade.
Announced to a stunned SDCC crowd in July 2019, Marvel Studios Blade has been its own special kind of horror project. In February 2023, Feige stated that cameras were set to roll “in, like, the next 10 weeks or so.” Now, a new report claims that camera won’t roll at all on Blade.
According to Jeff “The In” Sneider, Marvel has put a stake through the heart of Blade, opting to include the Daywalker into its rumored Midnight Sons team-up film.
Production on the project was delayed multiple times beginning with the decision of original director Bassam Tariq to leave the film in 2022. At least five different writers have taken a turn on the script after original scribe Stacey Osei-Koffour parted ways with the project, with Marvel Studios’ vet Eric Pearson (Black Widow, Thunderbolts*) having most recently penned a draft. Without a director since Tariq’s replacement, Yann Demange, bailed in June 2024, there was simply no way Blade was making it in front of cameras and was ultimately removed from the studio’s 2025 theatrical slate.
Last July, Feige explained that the lack of a great script kept them from beginning production on the film, though he seemed committed to making it work as a “modern day” project rather than the period piece versions the studio originally drafted.
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