{"id":44436,"date":"2024-10-23T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=44436"},"modified":"2024-10-23T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:19:14","slug":"blade-removed-from-marvel-studios-release-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=44436","title":{"rendered":"Blade Removed From Marvel Studios&#8217; 2025 Release Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some might be surprised, some might have expected it, but <strong>Marvel Studio&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>Blade <\/strong>has been taken off the 2025 release schedule according to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/10\/blade-predator-badlands-disney-release-dates-1236144383\/\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was in July 2019, at <strong>San Diego Comic-Con<\/strong>, when <strong>Marvel Studios <\/strong>announced their <strong><em>Blade <\/em><\/strong>movie with Oscar winning actor<strong> Mahershala Ali<\/strong> 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&#8217;s November 7th, 2025 release date taken off the calendar. Instead of <strong><em>Blade<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>20th Century Studios&#8217;<\/strong> <em><strong>Predator: Badlands <\/strong><\/em>will take the slot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The closest we have gotten to seeing <strong>Ali&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong><em>Blade <\/em><\/strong>was an uncredited voice cameo in <strong><em>Eternals <\/em><\/strong>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. <strong><em>Marvel Studios<\/em><\/strong> has also gone through some internal changes with<strong> Bob Iger&#8217;s <\/strong>mandate that no more than three <strong>Marvel <\/strong>movies be released in a year. As we can see by the release calendar for 2025 the studio has already met it&#8217;s quota with<strong><em> Captain America: Brave New World<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>The <\/em><\/strong><em><strong>Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/strong><\/em> and <strong><em>Thunderbolts*<\/em><\/strong>. This might be also why there has been little news on other projects that had been announced such as <strong><em>Armor Wars<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s hard to know where things will go from here. In July of this year <em><strong>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/strong><\/em> was released and featured the brief return of <strong>Wesley Snipes<\/strong>&#8216; <strong><em>Blade<\/em><\/strong>. Since it&#8217;s release <strong>Ryan Reynolds<\/strong> has gone on record saying he&#8217;d like to see <strong>Snipes <\/strong>return as <strong><em>Blade <\/em><\/strong>for a <strong><em>Logan <\/em><\/strong>type of send off film. With <strong><em>Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/em><\/strong> grossing more than $1.3 million at the box office and with <strong>Snipes <\/strong>getting one of the biggest audience reactions in the film might this be the direction <strong>Disney <\/strong>take?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with the removal of <strong><em>Blade, <\/em><\/strong><em><strong>Marvel <\/strong><\/em>has added three untitled release dates to their schedule, February 18, 2028, May 5, 2028 and November 10, 2028. Here&#8217;s hoping that <strong><em>Blade <\/em><\/strong>might be on one of those dates in future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThere\u2019s only ever gonna be one Blade\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=44436\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Blade Removed From Marvel Studios&#8217; 2025 Release Schedule&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":44437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1085],"class_list":["post-44436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-blade","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blade Removed From Marvel Studios&#039; 2025 Release Schedule - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marvel Studios&#039; Blade, starring Mahershala Ali, has been removed from it&#039;s 2025 release schedule. 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