New BLADE Story Coming Together; Big Announcements Soon
Mike Sprague
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Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has finally updated us on the upcoming Blade reboot with Mahershala Ali (Moonlight). At the recent Disney Investor Day event, Feige assured fans that the reboot is “coming together.” Better yet, he says we will be treated to more substantial news in the very near future.
Feige says: “As we announced at Comic-Con last year, we’re moving ahead with Blade, starring Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali. The development and storylines are coming together, and we’ll have announcements very, very soon.”
Marvel’s upcoming big-screen Wesley Snipes-less Blade reboot with Mahershala Ali (True Detective, Green Book, Moonlight) was almost going to be a TV series.
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Ali says: “I kept hearing that they were trying to find a way to remake it and put it back together. And it was exciting for me to get to be in that Marvel space in TV. But for me, my goal had always been film. So, there was this long process of them speaking about, at least in the television division, really wanted to make it a TV show again. But not necessarily, trying to acquire the rights still. And something’s kinda going on. So it took a couple of years…“
As we all know, Marvel and Ali are rebooting the classic character for the MCU. And while no director is currently attached, Disney and Marvel are currently looking for writers. There is no word currently on who they are specifically looking into. But a THR article says that they are looking for “Black behind-the-camera talent.”
Blade does not currently have a release date. But we’ll keep you updated.
Stay tuned.
The first adaptation starred Snipes as Marvel’s iconic half-vampire, half-human vampire hunter. Searching for the vampire that killed his mother and turned him into a monster, Blade’s fight leads him to Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff). Frost is a rising force in the vampire world, set on raising a God bent on destroying mankind.
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