Mahershala Ali will play the Daywalker replacing Wesley Snipes.
‘Blade’, the legendary film by Wesley Snipes, the first black movie superhero to lead the box office, the R-rated vampire slayer, the film that saved Marvel from bankruptcy more than 20 years ago… ‘Blade’ returns to theaters. And this time it will be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The reboot of the vampire hunter was a bombshell since it was announced in 2019 and has been creating more and more expectations as the advances of pre-production have been published, in which the film is currently immersed. And the tape will be starring Mahershala Ali and written by a member of the ‘Watchmen’ series writing team. Isn’t that enough to whet your appetite for blood?
That is everything we know about the ‘Blade’ reboot.
‘Blade’: Marvel reboot release date
According to the first rumors, ‘Blade’ would be released in the fall of 2022, but the production of the film has been delayed Y will not start shooting until November 2022.
The CEO of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, has confirmed that ‘Blade’ will be incorporated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe later, already in Phase 5, specifically on November 3, 2023.
‘Blade’: Synopsis of the Marvel reboot
After three movies starring Wesley Snipes and a series (starring Sticky Fingaz), the premise of Blade is well known to all. The character of Eric Brooks first appeared in a comic book in 1973, created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan. His mother had been killed by a vampire while pregnant, which made him a half human half vampire. Since then, Brooks swore to dedicate his life to hunting vampires. He is Blade, although he is also known as the “day walker“.
From here and in the absence of an official synopsis, the writers of this reboot can develop the character in infinite directions. The only sure thing is that they will not deny everything that Wesley Snipes did in the original trilogy, although this refers more to the characterization of the character and his environment than to specific events.
What they will not keep, according to has announced Kevin Feige, is the R rating that limited the film’s extreme violence to an adult audience. Like most Marvel movies, ‘Blade’ will be released with a PG-13 rating (ages 13+).
In any case, and although ‘Blade’ is going to join the UCM in Phase 5, has made a brief first in-universe appearance during the post-credits scene of ‘The Eternals’, where the voice of Mahersala Ali tells Dane Whitman’s character (Kit Harrington) to wield a mysterious sword. Blade already has a place within the Marvel Universe.
‘Blade’: Cast of the Marvel reboot
The sad announcement that Wesley Snipes will not repeat as Blade It was accompanied by the good news that the relief is going to be taken by an actor of the stature of Mahershala Alithe twice Oscar-winning actor from ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Green Book’, who this time will put on the vampire slayer’s leather trench coat.
It will not be the first time that the actor enters the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He had already played Uncle Aaron from ‘Spider-Man: A New Universe’ and played the villain of the first season of ‘Luke Cage’, which seems to indicate that the Netflix series about the Defenders are definitely outside the MCU canon. . This will, however, be his first role as a leading hero. Fans are already imagining what Ali might look like as the vampire slayer.
Together with Mahershala Ali we will find the actor of ‘The Harder the Fall’, Cute Delroy, in a role yet to be known. Lindo, who had already worked with Marvel on a pilot for the ‘Agents of SHIELD’ spin-off that was never greenlit, had been on the studio’s list of pending collaborators ever since.
On the other side of the camera, Marvel announced as director Bassam Tarik, the Pakistani director of ‘Mogul Mowgli’, for which Riz Ahmed was nominated for an Oscar. For him, “The exciting thing about the film we’re making is that [no] There is a canon for Blade. That he is a daywalker is the only thing that has been established”. Before the comics, Tariq finds in the work of Wesley Snipes the essence of the character. “A black man created the world of superheroes we’re in, that’s the truth”.
However, Bassam Tariq has left ‘Blade’ two months before the start of filming, and at the moment we do not know who will take his place in the director’s chair.
Finding a writer for the new ‘Blade’ story was almost more difficult. The whole team, and especially Mahersala Ali, had insisted that the writer had to be African American to be able to give the point of view that the character requires. The final decision lived up to expectations: Stacy Osei-Kuffour, who has stood out in the world of series as the “story editor” (a kind of chief supervisor of the entire series) of ‘Watchmen’, the Damon Lindelof series. If anyone should know how to bring an adult comic to the movies with the heavy backpack of being a sequel, it’s her.
‘Blade’: Trailer and poster of the reboot of Marvel
With the film still in pre-production it’s early to even consider seeing an image of how ‘Blade’ will turn out. Luckily, we can always go to the original trilogy.
It is just around the corner.
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
