Wesley Snipes Blade Trilogy Writer Has the Same MCU Reboot Question We All Do: ‘Why Is It Taking So Long?’

The writer of the Wesley Snipers Blade trilogy of films has said helium is acceptable to reply the telephone from Marvel main Kevin Feige to assistance benignant retired Mahershala Ali’s M.I.A. MCU reboot.

The once-upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe movie has gone done its just stock of roadblocks implicit the years, but it appears Blade is good and genuinely stalled with small anticipation that it volition ever prime up wherever it near off.

Last month, rapper and creator Flying Lotus took to X / Twitter to sermon his relation successful the project, and helium fto gaffe that immoderate Blade erstwhile was is, successful fact, nary more. "I conjecture we are truthful acold from it adjacent being a anticipation present but. Yeah I was signed connected to constitute euphony for the caller BLADE movie earlier it fell thru," the DJ, who precocious directed Shudder’s caller sci-fi fearfulness ASH, explained. "Maybe it'll travel astir again but I uncertainty it. Would person been amusive tho."

The time anterior to Flying Lotus’ tweet, Sinners costume decorator Ruth E. Carter confirmed during an quality connected The John Campea Show that she was acceptable to plan costumes for Blade anterior to accumulation falling isolated — and worse still, the movie was expected to beryllium acceptable successful the 1920s, which would person undoubtedly made for immoderate earnestly chill costume design, not to notation accumulation plan arsenic well.

And histrion Delroy Lindo — who was besides attached to prima successful the movie alongside Ali arsenic Blade for a play of clip — besides opened up astir the demise of the accumulation conscionable days earlier Carter’s reveal.

"When Marvel came to me, they seemed to beryllium truly funny successful my input," helium precocious told Entertainment Weekly. "And successful the assorted conversations I had with producers, the writer, the manager astatine the time, it was each starring into being precise inclusive. It was truly breathtaking conceptually, but it was besides breathtaking successful presumption of the quality that was going to form. And then, for immoderate reason, it conscionable went disconnected the rails."

Blade was archetypal announced astatine San Diego Comic Con backmost successful 2019 and if each had gone to plan, fans would beryllium looking guardant to immersing themselves successful the movie this coming November. The task has cycled done respective directors astatine this point, but none, including Yann Demange and Bassam Tariq, person stuck with the film.

Now, speaking to ScreenRant, David S. Goyer, who wrote each 3 movies successful the archetypal Blade trilogy and adjacent directed 2004’s Blade: Trinity, wondered what was taking truthful long.

“I would,” Goyer responded erstwhile asked if he’d constitute Marvel’s Blade reboot. “I’ve ever loved the quality and I emotion him. I’ve been sitting connected the sidelines wondering, ‘What successful the satellite is going on? Why is it taking truthful long?’ Because I’m a immense Marvel instrumentality myself, and I’ve conscionable been wholly puzzled.”

It’s been conscionable 7 months since Blade was removed from Marvel’s merchandise docket — and the workplace has yet to corroborate a caller merchandise day for it. That said, a period aft the movie was pulled from the calendar, Feige made it known that Marvel Studios inactive planned to marque a Blade movie hap immoderate way, somehow.

"We are committed to Blade. We emotion the character, we emotion Mahershala's instrumentality connected him. And remainder assured: whenever we alteration absorption with a project, oregon are inactive figuring retired however it fits into our schedule, we fto the assemblage know. You're each up to day connected what's happening," helium said during an interrogation with Omelete successful November 2024. "But I tin archer you that the quality volition so marque it to the MCU.”

Meanwhile, MCU movie Deadpool & Wolverine, which saw Snipes reprise his relation arsenic Blade successful cameo form, was an tremendous hit, making $1.3 cardinal astatine the planetary container office. Deadpool histrion Ryan Reynolds has called for Snipes' Blade to get a send-off movie akin to Hugh Jackman's Logan.

Reynolds said that 1998's Blade and its sequels created a marketplace for superhero films to exist, and without them determination wouldn't beryllium the likes of X-Men oregon the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

"There is nary Fox Marvel Universe oregon MCU without Blade archetypal creating a market," Reynolds said connected X/Twitter. "He’s Marvel Daddy. Please retweet for a Logan-like send-off."

Earlier this month, Reynolds was reported to beryllium successful the "early stages" of trying to bring a Deadpool and X-Men movie to life. As reported by THR, Reynolds' thought for this ensemble movie would diagnostic Deadpool, but not arsenic the main character. Instead, helium would stock the spotlight with 3 of 4 different X-Men characters. In fact, it is said Reynolds wants these different characters to instrumentality halfway signifier truthful they tin beryllium "used successful unexpected ways."

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