Blade Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Key Facts

• Yann Demange, who directed the pilot of HBO's Lovecraft Country, has signed on to direct the Marvel pic (11/23/2022).
• Bassam Tariq has parted ways from thej project sources confirmed to Deadline (10/1/2022).
• Mogul Mowgli director Bassam Tariq is in talks to helm the film (8/1/2021).
• Stacy Osei-Kuffour, a writer on HBO's acclaimed limited series Watchmen, will write the script and be the first Black female scribe to write a Marvel movie (2/5/2021).
• Producer and famed Marvel producer Kevin Feige was a co-producer on 2004's Blade: Trinity, which was released by New Line Cinema.
• Mahershala Ali is notable recent Oscar winner for 2016's Moonlight and 2018's Green Book.
• In three past movies, Wesley Snipes played the half-vampire superhero lead role, Blade. The films were 1998's Blade ($131 million in box office), 2002's Blade II ($155 million in box office), and 2004's Blade: Trinity ($128 million in box office).
• Based on the Marvel comic books. He first appeared in a 1973 comic book The Tomb of Dracula #10.