Kevin Feige on Marvel’s Failed ‘Blade’ Reboot: ‘I Feel Like a Gigantic Loser and Failure That We Didn’t Get Off the Ground With Mahershala Ali’

> Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige is expressing disappointment over the failed “Blade” reboot that was supposed to star Mahershala Ali as the legendary vampire slayer. Speaking on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Feige said bluntly: “I am feeling like a gigantic loser and failure that we didn’t get off the ground with Mahershala.” Although the studio chief admitted at the same time it was “very exciting” to have Wesley Snipes back as Blade in 2024’s “Deadpool and Wolverine.”

> “We didn’t want to simply just put a leather outfit on him and have him start killing vampires. It had to be unique,” Feige explained. “It fell into the time when we started pulling back and saying, ‘Only accept insanely great.’ And it wasn’t ‘insanely great’ at the time. We didn’t feel like, as we often do, you can have a good script and make it a great script through production. We didn’t feel confident that we could do that on ‘Blade,’ and we didn’t want to do that to Mahershala and didn’t want to do that to us.”

So it’s official, we’re not getting blade in the mcu, at least for now. I feel bad for Mahershala Ali, he waited around for a decade and probably turned down some great roles to keep his schedule open to film a movie that never came to be. Hope they at least let him be blade in an avengers movie or even a tv show

And he should. That failure is solely on him.

There’s Only Ever Gonna Be One Blade

It sucks but Ali is 52, by the time they get a blade movie he’ll be like 57, unfortunately they should cast a younger actor someone in their 30’s so they can play blade for 10+ years