Marvel Studios' Blade reboot should be back in action "relatively soon" after some heavy delays.
Originally announced at San Diego Comic-Con International four years ago, with two-time Oscar collector Mahershala Ali in as the vampiric superhero Blade, this blockbuster has not only changed its director and screenwriters, but gone through the protracted WGA strike too.
While promoting his Netflix thriller Leave the World Behind, Ali provided Entertainment Weekly with a promising update on the Blade situation.
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"We're working on it. That's the best I could tell you," he said.
"I'm really encouraged with the direction of the project. I think we'll be back at it relatively soon. I'm sincerely encouraged in terms of where things are at and who's on board and who's leading the way as far as the writing of the script and the directing and all that.
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"So that's the extent of what I can tell you."
Between 1998 and 2004, Wesley Snipes played Blade across three movies before the Marvel Cinematic Universe exploded in 2008.
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One supporting character we probably won't be seeing in the new Blade is Kit Harington's Black Knight from The Eternals.
"I think there was some misunderstanding about whether he was going to be in the Blade movie. He was never meant to be in the Blade movie and isn't," claimed the actor back in July.
"I think there's some really fascinating parts of that character which would be beneficial to delve into and interesting, which is the aspects around his mental health things and specifically about addiction with that character, which I think is really interesting."
Blade has a release date of November 7, 2025.
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