Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has said he feels like a “gigantic loser and failure” over the doomed Blade reboot that was meant to star Mahershala Ali.
Marvel announced it was making Blade back in 2019, and confirmed that Mahershala Ali would feature as a new version of its vampire hunter, previously played by Wesley Snipes. But, seven years later, the project appears to be dead in the water, despite enthusiasm from Ali and fans to see it eventually.
“We’ve landed on modern day,” Feige said in an interview last summer, acknowledging that Blade’s script had gone through “three or four” different incarnations, two of which were period pieces. “We didn’t feel like, as we often do, you can have a good script and make it a great script through production,” Feige continued, discussing why the project had been pushed back. “We didn’t feel confident that we could do that on Blade, and we didn’t want to do that to Mahershala and didn’t want to do that to us.”
In December, Mia Goth said she got a wig to wear for the 1920s Blade movie idea, before the setting was scrapped and the project was placed on hiatus.
“The furthest that it got with me was… I flew to Atlanta and did a chemistry test with Mahershala,” Goth said, speaking on the Josh Horowitz podcast. “I did a costume fitting and a wig fitting. I was very excited in the direction it was going and Mahershala had such an interesting take on it, he was great. And it just unravelled from there, unfortunately.”
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