Where’s Blade? Fans Wonder Why Marvel Studios Cutbacks Seem to Be Landing on Black Heroes
Kevin Feige called the stalled project a failure as the reboot cycled through multiple directors and writers, with Marvel’s cost-cutting reshaping its film slate.
- Director Bassam Tariq and star Mahershala Ali confirmed the Blade reboot is effectively abandoned after years of stalled development, a failure Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has publicly acknowledged.
- Marvel constructed elaborate period sets in Atlanta before finalizing a script, with Tariq comparing the development process to Bollywood, where action sequences are choreographed before the story is determined.
- Ali relocated his family to Atlanta for filming and underwent extensive training, telling GQ: "If they wanted to do the movie, we would've done the movie." His criticism has resonated with fans.
- The press tour for Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother has become an extended postmortem on Blade, prompting fans to question whether Marvel Studios is purposely sidelining projects featuring Black protagonists.
- Tariq defended Feige as "really adaptable," noting the studio chief "listens and fucking changes," though Feige previously admitted feeling like a "gigantic loser and failure" regarding the unproduced film.
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Where’s Blade? Fans wonder why Marvel Studios cutbacks seem to be landing on Black heroes
By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Mahershala Ali is the star of the new action thriller, “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.” But he’s been asked about a different movie — a reboot of the 1998 hit “Blade” — while promoting the film.The highly anticipated project would have brought the vampire-slaying antihero, with Ali in
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