Blade: Mahershala Ali Confirms What Everyone Dreaded, but He's Grateful to Marvel
Ali says he trained for a year for Blade and is grateful Marvel helped finance his new thriller after the reboot was scrapped.
- At TIFF 2026, actor Mahershala Ali confirmed he is officially finished with the Blade reboot, telling Deadline he has moved on from the Marvel Studios project entirely.
- Marvel first announced the film at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, but the project cycled through multiple writers and directors, shifting release dates four times before the studio scrapped it.
- Despite the setbacks, Ali expressed gratitude toward Marvel for funding his new thriller, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, crediting the studio for supporting the project with original Blade director Bassam Tariq.
- Training for over a year for the role, Ali's only MCU appearance was a voice cameo in Eternals; Wesley Snipes reprised the original Blade in Deadpool & Wolverine, while Todd Williams voiced a variant in Marvel Zombies.
- The actor dismissed speculation about potential appearances in a Midnight Sons film or Avengers: Secret Wars, effectively closing the door on his involvement with the franchise.
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