Blade Removed From Marvel Studios’ 2025 Release Schedule
Some might be surprised, some might have expected it, but Marvel Studio’s Blade has been taken off the 2025 release schedule according to Deadline.
It was in July 2019, at San Diego Comic-Con, when Marvel Studios announced their Blade movie with Oscar winning actor Mahershala Ali to star as the titular character. More than five years on and it seems the studio is still no closer to bringing the character back to the big screen with it’s November 7th, 2025 release date taken off the calendar. Instead of Blade, 20th Century Studios’ Predator: Badlands will take the slot.
The closest we have gotten to seeing Ali’s Blade was an uncredited voice cameo in Eternals back in 2021. Since then, the film has gone through numerous rewrites and director changes with further delays due to the global pandemic and most recently with the writers and actors strikes last year. Marvel Studios has also gone through some internal changes with Bob Iger’s mandate that no more than three Marvel movies be released in a year. As we can see by the release calendar for 2025 the studio has already met it’s quota with Captain America: Brave New World, The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Thunderbolts*. This might be also why there has been little news on other projects that had been announced such as Armor Wars.
It’s hard to know where things will go from here. In July of this year Deadpool & Wolverine was released and featured the brief return of Wesley Snipes‘ Blade. Since it’s release Ryan Reynolds has gone on record saying he’d like to see Snipes return as Blade for a Logan type of send off film. With Deadpool & Wolverine grossing more than $1.3 million at the box office and with Snipes getting one of the biggest audience reactions in the film might this be the direction Disney take?
Along with the removal of Blade, Marvel has added three untitled release dates to their schedule, February 18, 2028, May 5, 2028 and November 10, 2028. Here’s hoping that Blade might be on one of those dates in future.
