It’s been six-and-a-half years since Marvel announced a rebooted version of the vampire-slaying hero Blade would be joining the MCU, played by Mahershala Ali. However, the film has been stuck in development hell. Two different directors came and went and the planned release dates kept getting pushed back. The film is currently without a director or a release date.
Mia Goth, one of the stars of the supposedly upcoming film, suggested in a recent interview that Blade fans shouldn’t get their hopes up.
Goth Throws Cold Water on the Film Timeline
Speaking to the Happy Sad Confused Podcast with Josh Horowitz in an episode released on December 1, 2025, the Frankenstein and MaXXXine actress spoke about the Blade movie’s delayed state of affairs.
“I don’t know what’s going on with that. I think that they want to make it, and it’s such an important film for them that they’re taking their time with it,” Goth said, suggesting that as far as she knows, Marvel Studios hasn’t officially given up on the film. “I really don’t have any information. I don’t know why it’s taken the time that it has. We will see.”
Goth recounted how she’d flown to Atlanta for some early work on the film before it stalled, but things had since “unraveled.”
“We did a chemistry test between Mahershala and I. We did a costume fitting and a wig fitting, and I was very excited in the direction that it was going. It was very cool. And Mahershala had such an interesting take on it. He was great,” Goth said. “And then it just unraveled from there, unfortunately.”
The MCU’s Blade Movie Was Originally Supposed to Come Out in 2023
Wesley Snipes starred in three movies about Blade, a Marvel comics character, in the ’90s and early ’00s — before the start of the MCU and the modern superhero blockbuster boom. In 2019, Marvel announced plans to reboot the character at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2019, with Ali starring in the title role. Ali later made a voice-only cameo as Blade in one of the post-credits sequences of 2021’s Eternals.
The original release date was going to be November 3, 2023. Then it was pushed to September 6, 2024, February 14, 2025, and most recently November 7, 2025. It’s currently undated. Originally, Bassam Tariq was set to direct, but in 2022 he left due to creative differences. Yann Demange stepped in as director but there were further delays, and his exit was made public in the summer of last year.
While Blade has technically appeared in the MCU, as Snipes made a surprise cameo reprising his role in Deadpool & Wolverine, Ali’s Blade has yet to slay a vampire, and it’s growing increasingly unclear if he ever will. Currently, there are only three upcoming MCU movies officially on the release calendar. Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens on July 31, 2026. Avengers: Doomsday opens on December 18, 2026, and then Avengers: Secret Wars follows that up on December 17, 2027.
