As reported by Variety via The Hollywood Reporter , Marvel has halted pre-production on the Blade reboot starring Mahershala Ali due to a writers’ strike. Production was scheduled to begin in Atlanta later this month, for a planned release on September 4, 2024.
At San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, Marvel Studios first announced that it would be reviving Blade – after Wesley Snipes portrayed the character on screen in a trilogy of feature films from 1998 to 2004.
Damn shooting?
This isn’t the first time Disney has been forced to delay production on a long-awaited feature film. Last October, the film, which was slated for a 2023 release, was pushed back to 2024 after its original director, Basam Tariq, left the project two months before the start of filming. In November, French director Yann Demange ( Lovecraft Country ) took control of the project from a script by Michael Starberry ( In Their Eyes ). Finally, we told you last week that True Detective creator Nick Pizzolatto has also joined production to rework the Starrbury script. However, time is running out to complete the work before the strike, which began this week.
a knife He should recover after the strike is over, although this point may take time, negotiations around the strike will be complicated. Pre-production on Thunderbolts, another Marvel feature slated for 2024, meanwhile, hasn’t been affected by the social movement, and the studio has several other projects in various stages of production under its wing that are slated for release next year as well. . These include the highly anticipated Captain America: New World Order and Deadpool 3, as well as the upcoming Disney+ series Agatha: Coven of Chaos, Daredevil: Born Again and Wonder Man.
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