How hard can it be to make a Blade movie? Score a director with some horror and action experience, invest in long leather coats, put a bunch of stuntpeople in vampire costumes, stick on some pumping dance music, and *bam* box office gold.
But, sadly, it seems even the relatively well-oiled production pipeline that is Marvel Studios couldn’t make this simple proposition work. In 2019, Mahershala Ali was unveiled as the MCU’s Daywalker to great fanfare, but (save for a tiny voiceover cameo in an Eternals credits scene) that was it.
