In what now seems like a running joke, the Marvel Studios version leaf has lost another director. According to a report by varietydirector Yann Demange (Lovecraft Country), will no longer direct the film. This makes Demange the second director to walk away from the project. Director Bassam Tariq departed from an earlier version slated to go into production in 2022. The studio also announced that screenwriter Eric Pearson, who co-wrote The Fantastic Four for Marvel, he is the latest writer to have a crack at the leaf script The report suggests that star Mahershala Ali is still on board as the titular hero, although other actors they have abandoned the project.
To much fanfare, Kevin Feige announced that Oscar winner Mahershala Ali was starring in The Walking Dead. half-human/half-vampire superhero onstage at Comic-Con 2019. Since that announcement five years ago, nothing has gone right for this project. Writers have come and gone, and now two directors have left. However, Marvel Studios seems committed to making it happen come hell or high water. Since Wesley Snipes' trilogy of the character in the late 90s and early 2000s, the Marvel hero has become iconic. So it goes without saying that the property remains a priority for Marvel. We're not sure why it's so hard to come up with a good vampire hunter story, but here we are.
The only time we've had an MCU performance from Mahersela Ali as Blade was a quick voice cameo at the end of eternal. Unfortunately, three years later, nothing has come of this post-credits scene. Appears for the first time in Tomb of Dracula #10, Blade has been a mainstay of Marvel Comics for five decades. One way or another, Marvel Studios is determined to bring him back to the big screen. It may just take a few more years for that to happen. The film still has a late 2025 release date, but we're not holding our breath for that to develop.
