“What if we call Wesley Snipes and that’s it?” It’s something Kevin Feige has surely said at some point
In July 2019, Marvel made the big presentation of what was to come after ‘Avengers Endgame’. And one of the big surprises was ‘Blade’, which It already had a leading actor: Mahershala Ali, double Oscar winner. Almost nothing. The problem is that there was no script, director or absolutely anything else tied to the project, which was supposed to start filming in 2021. We are in 2024 and the film It never stops giving headaches to Marvel bosses.
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And, as we have read in The Hollywood Reporter, ‘Blade’ has lost another director, Yann Demange, which had not yet started filming but was a few months away from doing so. He is the second director to leave the project after Bassam Tariq, and Marvel has caught him at the same moment he Eric Pearson was doing his umpteenth revision of the script.
Filming is supposed to start right now in Mexico to arrive on time for the premiere on November 7, 2025but it is very doubtful that they will arrive if they still have to hire a new director, have him approve the script and, in the meantime, try to ensure that Ali does not separate from the film. ‘Blade’ has already been delayed for two times and it wouldn’t be surprising if we saw a third.
To add to the ignominy, Demange was handpicked by Ali himself, with the intention of filming as soon as possible back in 2023, but last year’s strike ended up hurting it. This is just one more notch that suggests that within La Casa de las Ideas there is something that is making trouble. We’ll have to see if they know how to shrink it.
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