Blade, A Movie That's Sooooo Real, Should've Been Out This Weekend

Once upon time in the distant year of 2019, Marvel Studios held a pretty momentous Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con. With Avengers: Endgame in the rearview mirror and Spider-Man: Far From Home presently raking in cash at the box office, everyone was wondering what was coming next for the MCU. The Phase Four slate seemed bountiful at the time: Shang-Chi and the Eternals were getting movies, Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster was primed to return as the Mighty Thor in Thor: Love & Thunder, and supporting characters like Sam Wilson’s Captain America and Scarlet Witch would be getting their own Disney+ shows.

As if all that weren’t enough, Kevin Feige announced that Mahershala Ali—previously Cottonmouth in Luke Cage and having then won an Oscar for Green Book—would be playing Blade, the vampire hunter famously played in live-action by Wesley Snipes during the 2000s. It’d later be revealed this Blade flick would be hitting on November 3, 2023, with These Birds Walk director Bassam Tariq at the helm and working off a script from Watchmen writer Stacy Osei-Kuffor. And with Ali already having made a voice cameo in Eternals’ post-credits scene, it seemed like it was high time for the character to show up in the MCU.

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We likely won’t have specifics on what’s been going on with Blade; at least, not until a larger outlet gives the whole scoop a handful of weeks before the movie’s release. Still, it’s fascinatingly messy to see a movie starring one of the most straightforward B-listers Marvel has—a guy whose entire deal is just wearing black leather while stabbing vampires in the face—have so much baggage attached to it. Maybe at this point, he would’ve been better served with another TV show?

Marvel’s Blade is currently slated to release on September 6, 2024.

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