Marvel Studios Pauses ‘Blade’ Movie Amid Search for New Director (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter

Marvel Studios is going to instrumentality immoderate other clip to sharpen its Blade diagnostic project.

In the aftermath of parting ways with manager Bassim Tariq 2 weeks ago, the workplace is pressing intermission connected the vampire escapade thriller that is to prima Oscar victor Mahershala Ali. Marvel is temporarily shutting down production-related activities successful Atlanta, wherever the task was to person changeable starting successful November, portion it conducts a hunt for a filmmaker and further develops it.

Crew members were notified Tuesday, according to a source.

The workplace is hoping to restart the accumulation successful aboriginal 2023. Blade presently has a merchandise day of Nov. 3, 2023, but it is improbable to beryllium acceptable by then. Marvel had nary remark connected the merchandise date.

Blade had seen its commencement of accumulation displacement astatine slightest a mates of times arsenic it underwent respective rounds of publication rewrites. Beau DeMayo, who has worked connected shows specified as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The Witcher and its animated diagnostic spinoff, arsenic good arsenic Marvel’s own Moon Knight, is the existent writer.

When Tariq near the project, galore presumed that a manager would beryllium rapidly slotted successful truthful the accumulation wouldn’t miss excessively overmuch time. But successful the 2 weeks that person followed, it became wide that Marvel wanted to dilatory down and deepen the search. At the aforesaid occasion, the workplace thought it should take the clip to coagulate different aspects of the diagnostic project.

 “They privation to truly get it right,” said 1 source.

Blade has been 1 of Marvel’s much anticipated films since the workplace announced the task to overmuch fanfare astatine San Diego Comic-Con successful 2019. At the precise extremity of the Marvel panel, Ali made a astonishment quality and enactment connected a shot headdress with the Blade logo. Marvel Studios brag Kevin Feige aboriginal told THR that Ali had personally called him to explicit involvement successful playing the character.

Blade was created by writer Marv Wolfman and creator Gene Colan for 1973’s The Tomb of Dracula No. 10. He is simply a half-mortal, half-immortal who hunts vampires successful bid to avenge his mother, who was killed by a vampire arsenic she gave commencement to him. Wesley Snipes antecedently played the quality successful a trilogy released the aboriginal 2000s.