It was a big deal when Mahershala Ali walked onto the Hall H stage at San Diego Comic-Con 2019 as part of Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige’s announcement that the actor would lead a Blade reboot. And yet, six and a half years later, all we have to show for this is Ali making a voice cameo as Marvel’s Daywalker in Eternals. Blade keeps getting hit with setbacks, and now there’s a rumor claiming that the upcoming Marvel movie is “dead,” though there may still be some hope for Ali’s vampire hunter.
Let’s cover the potentially bad news first. The Hot Mic co-host Jeff Sneider claimed in the show’s latest episode that he’s heard Blade is no longer moving forward. That on its own would be disappointing. After all, Wesley Snipes led three Blade movies from 1998 to 2004, and while their qualities all differed, you’d think it would’ve been easy enough for the powers-that-be at Marvel Studios to seamlessly throw in Blade going around and killing vampires fit within the Marvel Cinematic Universe mythology.
