Eternals spoilers follow.
Marvel's Blade reboot with Mahershala Ali has added another cast member, alth0ugh the studio aren't revealing exactly who he's playing.
The Hollywood Reporter has stated that Delroy Lindo is in final negotiations to join House of Cards and True Detective star Ali, Mogul Mowgli director Bassam Tariq, and Watchmen writer Stacy Osei-Kuffour.
Lindo is probably best known for collaborating with legendary director Spike Lee multiple times, including on Malcolm X and Da 5 Bloods, which also starred Chadwick Boseman, Marvel Studios' King T'Challa/Black Panther.
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He's also known for The Good Fight, where he plays Adrian Boseman. He was cast in Marvel's Most Wanted, a spin-off of the canonically-ambiguous Agents of SHIELD series, but it never came to pass.
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Blade has already appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, kind of. In the second post-credits scene of the recently-released Eternals, you can hear Ali's voice as the vampire hunting vampire is with Kit Harington's Dane Whitman as he is about to pick to up the sword that will transform him into another supernatural superhero, the Black Knight.
"It was really cool, getting to do that," Ali recently said about the scene. "It was scary. Because, you know, you're talking before you're filming it.
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"I'm pretty particular about my choices, like most actors, and so having to make some choices – even with a line, vocally – this early on, it brought up some very real anxieties. And it made the job real. It's like, 'Okay, this is happening now,' you know, and that's exciting."
Eternals is out now in cinemas.
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