Marvel’s “Blade” Recruits “True Detective” Creator Nic Pizzolatto to Sharpen Story
Marvel’s upcoming Blade is sharpening its knives as it nears a late May production start. True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto is re-teaming with Mahershala Ali, who starred in season three of Pizzolatto acclaimed HBO crime noir series, to help get Blade into tip-top narrative shape. The film is one of Marvel’s most marquee upcoming installments, bringing the Oscar-winner Ali ...
Marvel’s “Blade” Adds Rising Star Mia Goth
Mahershala Ali’s half-vampire, half-human superhero is about to be joined by one of Hollywood’s rising stars. Mia Goth, already a queen of the horror world after turning in killer performances in three recent horror films, X and Pearl, in 2022, and Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool this year, will be joining Ali in Marvel’s Blade. It’s unclear what role ...
Marvel’s “Blade” Names “Lovecraft Country” Director Yann Demange as New Helmer
Marvel’s Blade has found the man ready to wield the studio’s mighty sword of a movie. The Mahershala Ali-led film will be directed by Yann Demange, the helmer of the pilot of HBO’s devilish Lovecraft Country. Demange will be directing from a brand new script to be written by When They See Us scribe Michael Starrbury. This means that Blade has now ...
“Blade” Casts Aaron Pierre in Mysterious Role Alongside Lead Mahershala Ali
A big piece of casting news has dropped on one of Marvel Studios’ most intriguing, most hush-hush upcoming films. The Underground Railroad and Krypton star Aaron Pierre has joined two-time Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali in Blade. Pierre joins both Ali and the great Delroy Lindo in the revamped MCU film about the titular character, the first Blade film since Wesley Snipes’s last turn ...
Mahershala Ali Shares an Illustration of Himself as Blade
Remember four and a half million years ago, last July, when Marvel revealed that Mahershala Ali would playing Blade in a new film about their half-vampire superhero? It was another lifetime and a very different world, but that doesn’t mean that Ali isn’t still hyped to play the character whenever we’re finally able to get ...
Marvel Reveals Two-Time Oscar Winner Mahershala Ali is Blade
When Wesley Snipes starred in Stephen Norrington’s Blade in 1998 as the half-vampire, half-mortal protector of humanity, superhero movies were in something of a middle period. The late 70s through the 80s had brought us some legendary comic-book films, most notably Richard Donner’s 1978 Superman and Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman. Those films were a touch campy, but also technically ...
