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 Marvel Studios' troubled project.
- Marvel first announced the film at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, but the project cycled through multiple writers and directors over several years before the studio scrapped it.
- Despite the setbacks, Ali expressed gratitude toward Marvel for funding his new thriller, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, which he made with original Blade director Bassam Tariq.
- Ali trained for over a year for the role, though his only appearance was a voice cameo in Eternals; Wesley Snipes reprised the original Blade in Deadpool & Wolverine.
- The actor also shut down rumors regarding potential appearances in a Midnight Sons film or Avengers: Secret Wars, marking a definitive end to his involvement with the franchise.
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