Will The MCU's Blade Reboot Be Rated R?
The film rights to the fan-favorite Blade character reverted back to Marvel Studios way back in 2012, but Kevin Feige sat on those rights for years before doing something about it. Finally, at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel announced that it had begun preliminary work on a Blade reboot set in the MCU. Back then, all that was revealed about the project was that two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali had been cast as the iconic vampire slayer.
Over the past couple of years, as the project has come together, a few more details have emerged about the MCU’s new Blade movie. Screenwriter Stacy Osei-Kuffour, who previously contributed episodes to HBO’s critically acclaimed follow-up to Watchmen and Hulu’s offbeat coming-of-age gem PEN15, is working on the script. Bassam Tariq, the former documentarian who helmed Mogul Mowgli (which he co-wrote with star Riz Ahmed), is in the director’s chair. Filming is set to begin in October and the production will take the cast and crew across such shooting locations as Atlanta, New Orleans, and Morocco.
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In Eternals’ post-credits scene, Ali’s Blade made his MCU debut with an uncredited off-screen cameo alongside Kit Harington’s Dane Whitman. He introduces the would-be Black Knight to the Ebony Blade and asks him, “Sure you’re ready for that, Mr. Whitman?” At this year’s SDCC, Marvel announced a release date for Blade. Ali’s first vamp-slaying solo movie is scheduled to hit theaters on November 3 next year. It’ll be released as a part of Phase Five, sandwiched between The Marvels and Captain America: New World Order.
After all these tantalizing revelations about the Blade reboot, one of the only things that haven’t
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