This July will mark four years since it was announced at San Diego Comic-Con that Mahershala Ali would lead a Blade reboot for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We’ve since heard Ali as the character in Eternals, but there’s quite a ways to go until the vampire hunter’s upcoming Marvel movie arrives. However, for those of you who enjoyed the actor’s time on True Detective Season 3, there’s good news, as Blade is reuniting him with the HBO anthology show’s creator.
Nic Pizzolatto, the mastermind behind True Detective (which can be streamed with an HBO Max subscription) has been brought in for writing work on Blade. However, rather than penning an entirely new screenplay, THR shared that Pizzolatto is working off the draft put together by Michael Starrbury of When They See Us fame, and has been doing so “for a few weeks now.” Along with his work on True Detective, he’s written/co-written The Magnificent Seven (the remake, obviously), Galveston and The Guilty, as well as did uncredited work on Deadwood: The Movie.
