Marvel Finds Director For New ‘Blade’ Movie

Marvel formally introduced Mahershala Ali would change into the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s vampire hunter, Blade, again at San Diego Comedian-Con 2019. Properly, 2021’s Comedian-Con (at House) kicks off later this week, and the Blade film remains to be manner off within the distance. The movie might not even seem through the present Part of the MCU.

Two years after that preliminary announcement, it seems just like the movie is lastly coming collectively. Deadline experiences Marvel is “in talks” with their decide to direct the movie: Bassam Tariq, who beforehand helmed the Riz Ahmed movie Mogul Mowgli. The film’s script is at the moment being written by Stacy Osei-Kuffour.

As they inform it, Marvel has achieved an in depth seek for the correct filmmakers to create the MCU’s model of Blade:

Ali and studio execs have been assembly with dozen of candidates going all the best way again to the autumn, at one level contemplating writer-director choices earlier than in the end separating the 2 and tapping Osei-Kuffour to pen the script. Since her hiring, Marvel shortened its record of potential director selections and began one other spherical conferences that began in March and went by June. People who made the ultimate lower met and delivered their last displays over that point, and in the long run it was Tariq’s imaginative and prescient that in the end gained all events over.

This would be the first Blade film since 2004’s Blade: Trinity the third and last movie starring the films’ authentic Blade, Wesley Snipes. That film was a bomb, however the first two Blades are excellent; the primary will be the single most influential movie of the final 25 years. The large query about Marvel’s Blade is how edgy it is going to be allowed to be. The unique Blade movies had been darkish, R-rated horror motion movies. Marvel makes PG-13 motion pictures for all ages. Will Blade be the exception? This new Blade doesn’t but have an official launch date from Marvel.