Summary
Wesley Snipes shades Mahershala Ali’sBladereboot as theMarvel Cinematic Universecontinues to develop the feature film. In July 2019, Marvel Studios and Ali announced at San Diego Comic-Con that he would be taking on the role of Blade, with the MCU set to reboot the character that was previously played by Snipes. However, the MCU audience was not prepared for the many creative issues that would followtheBlademovieover the next five years.
It was recently revealed that the MCU’sBlademovie has lost its second director, with Yann Demange exiting the project. Three days later,Snipes, who starred as Blade in his own trilogy, took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to seemingly poke fun at the MCU’s complicated situation with theBladereboot, sharing the following:
Snipes wrote, “Blade, lordylordylordy folks still lookin for the secret sauce, ridin snowmobiles in traffic, kinda rough. Daywalkers make it look easy, don’t they?” While the search for a new director is reportedly underway, Marvel Studios and Disney have yet to comment onthe latestBladedirector exit. There is also no word yet onwhether theBlademovie will be delayed from its current June 05, 2025 release date.
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Up to this point, following the 2019 announcement,Ali has only appeared in the MCU as Blade through a voice-cameowhen he appeared off-screenduring 2021’sEternals. However, as it has almost been three years sinceEternalscame out, the MCU has not utilized Blade anywhere else. The further they get away from that movie, the less impact Ali’s cameo with Kit Harington’s Dane Whitman has. Many believed Dane would then show up in theBladefilm, but his official return has not yet been announced.
Even though it makes sense that Marvel Studios wants to getBladeright, it also begs the question of how it could be this complicated for them to find a proper story for him.If a creative team were able to tell a wholeBladetrilogy from 1998 to 2004, it truly shouldn’t be this complex for the MCU to land on a modern adaptation of the iconic Marvel hero for the big screen. Since the MCU has tackled darker stories and characters in recent years, it doesn’t justify a lot of the creative problems they are having with Ali’s reboot.
It wouldn’t be shocking if they end up pushingBladeuntil afterThe Multiverse Saga, especially as it is unlikely the creative team will meet their November 2025 release date. In the meantime, it would be far more interesting tosee Ali appear as Blade in other MCU projectsbefore taking center stage in his solo film. For now, time will tell if Marvel Studios will actually land on a direction forBlade, especially if they still hope to start shooting it later this year.
