All the MCU Blade news we’ve heard so far
Vampires are coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and that means its heroes need a vampire hunter to keep the night at bay. Blade is one of the MCU’s most anticipated upcoming movies, and rounds out a growing Marvel monster-verse, but it’s had a complicated production since it was announced at San Diego Comic-Con back in 2019.
To help make sense of its director changes, casting announcements, and delays, here’s everything we know so far about Marvel’s Blade:
Marvel Studios’ Blade has a Sept. 6, 2024 release date. This puts it squarely in the middle of the MCU’s Phase 5, and about a year ahead of the first of the next Avengers movies, which Blade could have some part to play in.
Blade was originally planned to hit movie theaters on Nov. 3, 2023, but got bumped to the following year. According to a report from The Hollywood Reporter, the delay mostly had to do with Disney replacing the movie’s original director.
Yann Demange, who has previously directed for the HBO series Lovecraft Country, was announced as the director of Blade after the original director, Bassim Tariq, left the project in September 2022, just two months before production was originally set to begin.
Demange is expected to start filming Blade in Atlanta in spring 2023.
The movie will star Mahershala Ali, who has headlined True Detective, The Green Book, and Moonlight, as Blade. Mia Goth (Pearl, Infinity Pool), Delroy Lindo (The Good Fight, Da 5 Bloods), and Aaron Pierre (Krypton, The Underground Railroad) have been cast unannounced roles.
Nic Pizzolatto, the guy behind True Detective — or at least the first three seasons of it. Pizzolatto has also worked on movie’s like 2021’s The Guilty. This will be the second time that Pizzolatto has written for
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