Blade: 5 Directors Who Could Replace Bassam Tariq For The MCU Reboot

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The Hollywood Reporter recently broke the news that director Bassam Tariq has dropped out of the MCU’s Blade reboot. In an official statement, Marvel Studios said, “Due to continued shifts in our production schedule, Bassam is no longer moving forward as director of Blade, but will remain an executive producer on the film. We appreciate Bassam’s talent and all the work he’s done getting Blade to where it is.” With the shoot date getting closer and closer, the search is on to find a filmmaker to replace Tariq in the director’s chair. From Jordan Peele to John Carpenter, there are a number of acclaimed directors who could bring Mahershala Ali’s vampire hunter to the big screen.

With his deeply hard-hitting action movies, director S. Craig Zahler has thrilled and disturbed his audience in equal measure. Bone Tomahawk combines western tropes with grisly, gory horror. Brawl in Cell Block 99 is a deceptively simplistic prison noir with brutal fight scenes. Dragged Across Concrete is a no-nonsense police thriller with unsympathetic antiheroes and uncompromising bloodshed.

This Director Is Bringing Back Exploitation

Zahler is always pushing the boundaries of on-screen violence. In Bone Tomahawk, a man is skinned alive by a cannibal. In Brawl in Cell Block 99, a prisoner’s face is scraped off their skull on the grimy floor of a jail cell. In Dragged Across Concrete, a bank teller is blown apart by a shotgun in a heist gone awry. If Marvel Studios is willing to go into hard-R territory with its Blade reboot, Zahler is the perfect director to get the most bang for its R-rated buck.

Much like Blade, the eponymous antihero in Ana Lily Amirpour’s horror masterpiece A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is a vampire who uses her vampiric