Marvel Will Shut Down New Blade Movie For Now – Report

Marvel’s Blade movie is said to be temporarily paused, according to The Hollywood Reporter. News coming two weeks later director Bassim Tariq (Mogul Mowgli) has exited the project– which Marvel cites as “due to our constantly changing production schedules.”

The comic book giant has not released a statement on the news. The Hollywood Reporter speculates that while the film was hoping to restart production in early 2023, it is now no longer capable of meeting its expected November 3, 2023 release date. “They want to really do the right thing,” an unnamed source told The Hollywood Reporter. Before Tariq’s departure, production is expected to begin in November.

Unfortunately, this is also the first delay Blade has encountered. In May 2021, the movie’s reboot was delayed so the studio could polish more Stacy Osei-Kuffour’s script. At the time, filming was scheduled to get underway in July 2022.

Marvel’s Blade stars Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) in the lead role, with a cast that includes Delroy Lindo (The Good Fight, The Harder They Fall) and Aaron Pierre (Old) . Tariq released a statement about leaving the project, thanking Marvel and writing, “It’s been an honor to work with the amazing people at Marvel. We were able to assemble a killer cast and We can’t wait to see the next director who will make the film.” ” Tariq will remain with the project as executive producer.

Despite the recent headlines, ironically, at this point, more is known about Planned “Tongue Killer” by Wesley Snipes, set “in a world of shape-shifters and a bit of time travel”, rather than how Blade will be rebooted. The original Blade, a 1998 superhero-horror movie, is credited with giving Snipes the biggest commercial success of his career, hence the idea of ​​the Blades competing to try Trying to outdo each other is of course a lot of fun – everyone wins there in the end.