Mahershala Ali’s Official ‘Blade’ Replacement Gets New Look 3 Weeks Before Release [Exclusive]

Right now is a great time to be a fan of Mahershala Ali, even if his long-gestating Blade movie at Marvel was officially canceled earlier this year. First announced in 2019 at San Diego Comic-Con, Blade has been one of Marvel’s biggest failures in the last few years, with countless creative turnover and delays that led to the film being completely removed from the release schedule last year. It wasn’t until this year that Kevin Feige came out and admitted that he “failed” with Blade, and Ali came out just a few weeks later and distanced himself from the project, saying that he was “completely done.” Ali was fresh off winning two Oscars in three years when he was first announced as the Daywalker, and he would have been one of the most talented performers the MCU had ever seen.