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After experiencing delay after delay, Marvel’s Blade reboot is once again in limbo after being removed from the 2025 release slate.
During 2019’s San Diego Comic-Con, we witnessed Kevin Fiege announce Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali was cast for the MCU Blade reboot. If we told you then Wesley Snipes would =”noopener” target=”_blank”>co-star in an MCU film as Blade before Ali’s movie even received a script you wouldn’t believe us. Unfortunately, it happened as Snipes co-starred in Ryan Reynolds’s Deadpool & Wolverine dawning the vampire aesthetic one more time. Snipes even drops his best line in the movie declaring “There’s only ever gonna be one Blade.”
Deadpool stares into the camera with a side eye signaling Snipes’ version has no clue he’s been recast. So far Ali’s version of the character voice has only appeared in an MCU post-credit scene for ETERNALS.
According to Variety, perhaps Wesley predicted the future as news comes Marvel has pulled BLADE from its 2025 release schedule. The film was slated to release on November 7 2025 but has been released by a Predator: Badlands. Earlier this year Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed going forward Marvel would release a “maximum of three movies” a year. Three sounds like wishful thinking unless they are home runs or established franchises.
In the end, fans are frustrated which is warranted because a stylish vampire slayer film shouldn’t be this hard.
