It Really Does Sound Like Whatever Mahershala Ali's Blade Movie Was Going to Be Is Dead

It seems arsenic though the highly-anticipated Blade movie has yet been drained of each its blood. The once-upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe movie has gone done its just stock of roadblocks implicit the years, but it appears the task has officially stalled with small anticipation that it volition ever prime up wherever it near disconnected — which means nary Mahershala Ali arsenic the Daywalker himself, perchance the biggest stroke of each MCU blows.

Rapper and creator Flying Lotus took to X / Twitter this week to sermon his relation successful the project, and helium fto gaffe that Blade is, successful fact, nary more. "I conjecture we are truthful acold from it adjacent being a anticipation present but. Yeah I was signed connected to constitute euphony for the caller BLADE movie earlier it fell thru," the DJ, who precocious directed Shudder’s caller sci-fi fearfulness ASH, explained. "Maybe it'll travel astir again but I uncertainty it. Would person been amusive tho."

The time anterior to Flying Lotus’ tweet, Sinners costume decorator Ruth E. Carter confirmed during an quality connected The John Campea Show that she was acceptable to plan costumes for Blade anterior to accumulation falling isolated — and worse still, the movie was expected to beryllium acceptable successful the 1920s, which would person undoubtedly made for immoderate earnestly chill costume design, not to notation accumulation plan arsenic well.

And due to the fact that atrocious things thin to travel successful threes, histrion Delroy Lindo — who was besides attached to prima successful the movie alongside Ali arsenic Blade for a play of clip — besides opened up astir the demise of the accumulation conscionable days earlier Carter’s reveal.

"When Marvel came to me, they seemed to beryllium truly funny successful my input," helium precocious told Entertainment Weekly. "And successful the assorted conversations I had with producers, the writer, the manager astatine the time, it was each starring into being precise inclusive. It was truly breathtaking conceptually, but it was besides breathtaking successful presumption of the quality that was going to form. And then, for immoderate reason, it conscionable went disconnected the rails."

Blade was archetypal announced astatine San Diego Comic Con backmost successful 2019 and if each had gone to plan, fans would beryllium looking guardant to immersing themselves successful the movie this coming November. The task has cycled done respective directors astatine this point, but none, including Yann Demange and Bassam Tariq, person stuck with the film.

With everything this adaptation has been through, it’s astir hard to judge that it's been conscionable six months since the movie was removed from Marvel’s merchandise docket backmost successful October 2024 — and it has yet to corroborate a caller merchandise day for it. That said, a period aft the movie was pulled from the calendar, MCU brag Kevin Feige made it known that the workplace was inactive readying to marque a Blade movie hap immoderate way, somehow.

"We are committed to Blade. We emotion the character, we emotion Mahershala's instrumentality connected him. And remainder assured: whenever we alteration absorption with a project, oregon are inactive figuring retired however it fits into our schedule, we fto the assemblage know. You're each up to day connected what's happening," helium said during an interrogation with Omelete successful November 2024. "But I tin archer you that the quality volition so marque it to the MCU."

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.