Marvel Studios is removing the Blade film from the release calendar

As Wesley Snipes’ legendary Daywalker quipped, “There was only one blade!” There will only ever be one blade!” in Marvel’s mutant mashup Deadpool and Wolverine This summer it was hard to know whether to laugh or cringe. After all, Marvel Studios has been trying – and struggling – to get their own blade The film has been in full swing since it was announced at San Diego Comic Con in Hall H in 2019 that Mahershala Ali would be the MCU’s vampire hunter. And now, following the departures of director Bassam Tariq and his successor Yann Demange, it looks like Snipes’ joyous momentum may have signaled the final nail he’s been hammered into bladeThe coffin.

Per deadline‘s coverage, Marvel’s blade has lost its already quite ambitious release date of November 7, 2025 to Dan Trachtenberg Predator: Badlands. And while this news doesn’t come with a formal cancellation announcement for the film, which Ali was set to star in opposite Scream Queen Mia Goth, the fact is that Marvel Studios has simultaneously scheduled three untitled MCU feature films for February 18, 2028, May 5 , dated, did not go hand in hand. 2028 and November 10, 2028 at least suggest that there are no immediate plans to get things back on track on the bloodsucker front any time soon.

Hampered by the impact of COVID and the subsequent one-two punch of the necessary but undoubtedly difficult-to-maneuver SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes last year, the odds appear to be stacked against Kevin Feige and company blade The film since the character’s arrival in the MCU was first teased at the end of Eternal back in 2021. And now, after losing its directors, it has a slew of writers (including Stacy Osei-Kuffour, X Men ’97 (creators Beau DeMayo, Michael Starrbury, Nic Pizzolatto and Michael Green) and even the release date, it’s hard not to feel that perhaps the best thing for the project at this point is a clean break and a fresh start once the multiverse -Saga has done this played out. And hey, since Ali and Goth are still technically attached to the lead role and Feige has already gone on record saying he cares more about getting the MCUs blade correctly as published, who knows? Maybe this project hasn’t really taken off yet – even if it took a hell of a lot of skating to get it together.