Marvel’s ‘BLADE’ Reboot With Mahershala Ali Delayed Indefinitely

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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. Following that, if we told you then Wesley Snipes would co-star in an MCU film as Blade before Ali’s movie even received a script, you wouldn’t believe us.

It did happen however as Snipes appeared in Ryan Reynolds’s Deadpool & Wolverine playing the iconic vampire for what we assumed would be the final time before Mahersahla Ali took up the mantle.

Snipes even said in the movie;

“There’s only ever gonna be one Blade.”

So far, Ali’s version of the character has been hinted at via an MCU post-credit scene for ETERNALS, and now it looks like that’s all we’ll be getting for the foreseeable future.

According to Variety, Marvel has pulled Blade from its 2025 release schedule. The film was slated to release on November 7, 2025, but has been skipped in favor of Predator: Badlands. Earlier this year, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed going forward Marvel would release a “maximum of three movies” a year which sounds like wishful thinking.

In the end, fans are frustrated which is warranted because reviving this film shouldn’t be this hard.