The lengthy journey for Blade to lastly make it to the Marvel Cinematic Universe could also be over…and never in a great way.
For months and months, we had been solely getting unhealthy and disheartening information about Marvel’s Blade, which might be getting into the MCU greater than 25 years after Wesley Snipes first introduced the character to the large display screen. Now, the unhealthy information could also be over…relying in your view of the film. As it stands, it could be that Blade has been cancelled utterly.
Multiple sources are reporting that Marvel has put Blade to relaxation after a string of screenwriters and administrators circled, signed on and left the challenge. One key supply this time round is The Playlist’s Rodrigo Perez, who posted a thread on X the place he detailed what may actually have been going behind the scenes that ultimately led to Blade probably – however not positively – being dulled.
For starters, Perez famous that the information that Chad Stahelski signing on as director (after Bassam Tariq and Yann Demange, whereas apparently Cari Joji Fukunaga had additionally been in talks) was false. However, Mashershala Ali continues to be taking part in Blade (regardless of requires Wesley Snipe to reprise, particularly after his Deadpool & Wolverine cameo), though it might not be for a standalone film. So the place does that depart Ali within the MCU?
Last yr, after Blade was formally faraway from the discharge calendar, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige insisted that Ali would for certain be taking part in Blade, saying, “We love the character, we love Mahershala’s version of him. And rest assured: whenever we change direction with a project, or are still trying to figure out how it fits into our schedule, we let the public know. You’re up to date on what’s going on. But I can tell you that the character will be coming to the MCU.” So does this growth imply that he’ll be a shock reveal in one thing like Avengers: Doomsday? More doubtless, it may be that Blade will get launched to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by way of Midnight Sons, as Blade is a part of the titular group which was first launched in 1992.
Genuinely, the information that Blade may formally be useless as a standalone Marvel film is not any shock because it feels prefer it has roughly gone nowhere of significance since first being introduced greater than 5 years in the past.
How would you’re feeling if Blade was formally useless at Marvel? Where do you wish to see the character find yourself?