Fumbled The Fangs! Kevin Feige Says He Feels Like…
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Six years after Marvel surprised followers by saying Mahershala Ali as its new Blade, the reboot still has not made it to the big screen. Now, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is getting candid about the project’s rocky journey and admits he’s just as disenchanted as followers.
According to People, Feige addressed the long-delayed movie during an look on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, where host Josh Horowitz jokingly requested how a lot “therapy” the Marvel boss had needed over Blade.
Rather than dodge the query, Feige leaned into the joke before offering one of his most trustworthy feedback yet about the troubled manufacturing.
“I’m feeling very excited that we got Wesley back for a time in Deadpool & Wolverine and like a gigantic loser and failure that we didn’t get off the ground with Mahershala,” Feige admitted.
That confession is probably going to hit Marvel followers laborious, particularly contemplating how a lot pleasure surrounded Ali’s shock look at San Diego Comic Con in 2019. Ali walked onstage with a Blade cap to formally announce he would inherit the long-lasting vampire hunter position from Wesley Snipes.
Unfortunately, the reboot has since turn out to be one of Marvel’s most notorious development complications. The project cycled through a number of writers and administrators, skilled repeated release date delays, and underwent a number of artistic overhauls before Disney in the end eliminated it from its theatrical calendar in late 2024.
Feige beforehand explained that Marvel refused to transfer ahead unless the movie met the studio’s more and more high artistic requirements.
“We didn’t want to simply just put a leather outfit on him and have him start killing vampires. It had to be unique,” he said in 2025. “Only accept insanely great.”
Feige added that Marvel didn’t really feel assured it may elevate the script during manufacturing, saying the studio “didn’t want to do that to Mahershala Ali and didn’t want to do that to us.”
Ali, however, has never publicly backed away from the position. During an interview with Variety in 2025, the two-time Academy Award winner shared that he’s still ready on the call.
“Call Marvel,” Ali said. “I’m ready. Let them know I’m ready.”
With Spider-Man: Brand New Day arriving later this month and Avengers: Doomsday following later this yr, Marvel has a lot on its plate. Still, Feige’s feedback recommend Blade has not been forgotten.
Whether the reboot finally rises from the grave stays to be seen, but followers are still prepared to see Mahershala Ali decide up the sword, and so is he.
Check out this clip from the interview below:
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