Mahershala Ali Doesn’t Know Why ‘Blade’ Didn’t Happen

When Marvel announces a movie, it tends to get made. It might go through a change of creative direction — as something like the original Ant-Man did when Edgar Wright was replaced by Peyton Reed — but it odds are, a movie will emerge from the studio eventually.That’s not the case with Blade, which was formally announced way back in 2019 at San Diego Comic-Con with Oscar winner Mahershala Ali in the title role. Seven years later, the movie hasn’t just not happen, it appears like it will never happen, a genuinely surprising turn of events.For his part, Ali has no answers as to why the film did not happen despite the fanfare of the big announcement at Comic-Con. In a new interview with GQ, Ali was asked about the reason why he never played Blade, to which he said...That’s a Kevin Feige question ... They had, as you said, a two-time Oscar-winning actor under contract and you got billions of dollars. That’s a question for them. I don’t mean anything personal to you, but I don’t know why it didn’t. To this day, I don’t know why it didn’t happen. I just know that it was—Kevin, he said it was the biggest failure of his career and I agree.New LineNew LineREAD MORE: The Worst Marvel Comics C...